and let the rest of
us take all the work and care. Be happy in the new life you are
molding; avoid all but lovely thoughts; let your first and nearest
and dearest feelings be for the precious little one whose
temperament and nature you are now stamping. Your every heartbeat,
not only of love and peace and beauty, but of the reverse as well,
is making its mark on the unborn.... I feel much better satisfied
to know Sister Mary is with you for a few days. If her presence is
comforting, why don't you ask her to stay with you till the wee one
arrives?

And so the serene and helpful sister Mary remains until a telegram is
sent to the anxious one, by that time in far-off Dakota, announcing the
birth of a daughter. "My heart bounded with joy," wrote Miss Anthony,
"to hear the ordeal was passed and the little, sassie Rose Foster Avery
safely launched upon the big ocean of time." And in a little while the
mother replied: "Darling Aunt Susan, when I lie with baby Rose in my
arms, I think so often of what she and I and all women, born and to be
born, owe to you, and my heart overflows with love and gratitude."

FOOTNOTES:

[53] There were also more substantial tokens, an Irish wool shawl from
Mrs. Chant; a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary from Mrs. Colby, with the
inscription, "The words in this volume can not express what women owe
you;" a silk dress pattern from brother Daniel R.; a $50 check from
sister Mary; $200 from Sarah Willis of Rochester, and $100 from the
Woman's Political Equality Club of that city; seventy golden dollars
from the Toledo Suffrage Club; $50 from Mrs. Arthur A. Mosher of St.
Louis, and enough $5 bills in friendly letters to bring the amount to
over $500. The very next day Miss Anthony gave a part of this to friends
who were ill or needy, including $50 to Phoebe Couzins.

[54] Described in detail in Chapter XXXV.

[55] Miss Anthony wrote in her journal that night: "Harriot said but a
few words, yet showed herself worthy her mother and her mother's
life-long friend and co-worker. It was a proud moment for me."

[56] Among those who contributed largely to this fund were Senator
Stanford, $300; Rachel Foster Avery, $300; George C. Lemon, Washington
City; Hon. Ezra V. Meeker, Puyallup; Rev. Anna H. Shaw; Isabella
Hedenberg, Chicago; Alice Stone Blackwell; Emily Howland, Sherwood, N.
Y.; O. G. and Alice Peters, Columbus, O.; John L. Whiting, Boston;
Senator R