force of speakers, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Sewall and Mrs.
Gougar, aroused great enthusiasm and made many converts.[35] This ended
three months of constant travelling and speaking almost every day and
evening. On the first of December Miss Anthony writes: "I have laid me
down to sleep in a new bed nearly every night of this entire time."

But the 10th found her in Washington fresh and vigorous for the work of
the coming winter. She was anxious to know whether the reports of the
Senate debate had been franked and sent out as promised and, to her
inquiry, Senator Blair answered with his usual little joke: "I have had
the speeches, etc., attended to and trust that the mails will do you
justice if the males do not. But remember that men naturally fight for
their lives, and on the same principle, you shall for yours!"

FOOTNOTES:

[28] Miss Anthony notes in her diary that she made her first Kansas
campaign in '67 and the suffrage bill was signed on her sixty-seventh
birthday. She received a letter of congratulation on the signing of the
bill from Chief-Justice Horton, of Kansas.

[29] The total amount received from sales has been only $7,000. Now,
however, in order to give the History the widest possible circulation,
the price has been so reduced as to enable it to be placed in the hands
of the reading public. It is the hope of Miss Anthony to publish the
fourth volume in the year 1900, bringing the History up to that date.

[30] At this meeting a yellow dog came on the platform and Miss Anthony
is quoted as afterwards making this apt comment: "She says that, at
least where women are concerned, the reporters are sure to seize upon
some triviality and ring its changes to the exclusion of serious
matters. She mentioned that when she spoke in Chicago last a dog ran
across the stage and, springing up, laid his nose on her shoulder. 'I
prophesied to the audience then,' she continued, 'that the dog would
figure in the press reports more conspicuously than anything that was
said or done, and so he did. He occupied half of the space in nearly
every paper.'"

[31] Both Senator Vest and Senator Brown had appealed wholly to the
emotions in their speeches upon this question, which were overflowing
with sentiment and "gush."

[32] This hardly corresponds with Senator Brown's glowing description of
the physical strength conferred by the Creator on man so that he could
do the voting for the family.

[33] _Yeas_: Blair