When she first visited the school she found the boys' departments fitted
up with all the appliances of a steam laundry, while a large number of
the girls were bending their backs over washtubs and ironing-boards the
whole of every week. She soon succeeded in having the washing sent over
to the laundry, where a few girls were able to do it all in two or three
days; she also made many valuable suggestions in the sewing department.
When in the city she went to the school on Sunday, helped with the
services and talked to the 700 boys and 150 girls. Some of the latter
came to her one Sunday and said pathetically that it was the first time
a speaker ever had seemed to know there were any girls there! She wrote
in her journal, with quiet humor, that the men on the board were going
the next day to select a cooking stove. She realized even more strongly
than ever that, though the best and wisest men may be on the boards of
public institutions, there is need also of women, but she felt that,
with so vast an amount of other work on hand, she could not do her duty
by the school. As she was about to go away again for a number of months
she decided to delay her resignation no longer and forwarded it to
Governor Morton April 15, after having served about two and a half
years. She then finished her lecture engagements and completed
arrangements for what proved to be one of the pleasantest journeys of
her life.

FOOTNOTES:

[107] At these annual feasts gentlemen are permitted to sit in the
gallery, listen to the toasts and watch the ladies enjoy the dinner.

[108] During this year Mrs. Gross had presented Miss Anthony with $1,000
to complete the education of a nephew and niece.

[109] A plan for a great Liberal Religious Congress, the outgrowth of
the Parliament of Religions in 1893.

[110] After 1892 Miss Anthony had to read most of Mrs. Stanton's
addresses, and the latter wrote her: "If you pronounce what I write
'good,' I know it is up to the mark. Many thanks for reading all my
papers so well as everybody says you do. I am sure of your rich voice
and deep sympathy with the subject, and I much prefer to have you read
my speeches rather than any other person, as I am always told that your
reading makes a deep impression. Our thoughts have the same trend on the
woman suffrage question, and we have written and talked over every phase
of the subject so much together that what I write is essentially yours
as well as mine."

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