uld dress to accommodate whatever business
or pastime they pursue. It would be quite out of good taste as well
as good sense, for a woman to go to her daily work with trailing
skirts, flowing sleeves, fringes and laces; and certainly, if women
ride the bicycle or climb mountains, they should don a costume
which will permit them the use of their legs. It is very funny that
it is ever and always the men who are troubled about the propriety
of the women's costume. My one word about the "bloomers" or any
other sort of dress, is that every woman, like every man, should be
permitted to wear exactly what she chooses.

When women have equal chances in the world they will cease to live
merely to please the conventional fancy of men. As long as there
was no alternative for women but to marry, it was about as much as
any woman's life was worth to be an old maid, and her one idea was
to dress and behave so as to escape this fate. She now has other
objects in life, and her new liberty has brought with it a freedom
in matters of dress which is cause for rejoicing.

These opinions might be multiplied almost to infinity and all would
emphasize two points: 1st, the broad views entertained by Miss Anthony
on all questions, based on her idea of individual freedom, the same for
both sexes; 2d, her fundamental belief that, until women cease to be a
subject class, and until they stand upon the plane of perfect equality
of rights and privileges, there can be no such thing as a fair solution
or adjustment of the issues of the day, either great or small; in other
words, that these can not be satisfactorily and permanently settled
through the judgment and decision of only one-half the people.

On October 18 she celebrated her complete recovery by accepting an
invitation to "come and take a cup of tea with Aunt Maria Porter," in
honor of her ninetieth birthday. She was obliged to cancel her
engagement to speak at the Atlanta Exposition, but during this month
made a trial of her strength by an hour's speech at the annual meeting
of the Monroe County Suffrage Club at Brockport, "attempting it," she
says, "with fear and trembling, but going through as if I never had had
a scare." Assured by this that she had herself well in hand once more,
she went to Ashtabula, Ohio, for a three days' convention of the State
association, attending every business meeting and public sess