might he gathered in the city.
Miss Anthony was dressed with her usual simplicity in black silk.
She read the call for the convention and made thereon one of her
characteristic addresses, full of fire and prophecy.

During the summer of 1874 Miss Anthony lectured in many places in
Massachusetts and New York, striving to pay the interest and reduce by
a little her pressing debts, and slipping home occasionally to see her
mother who was carefully tended by the devoted sister Mary. At one of
these times she writes in her diary: "It is always so good to get into
my own humble bed." August 22 she sent a letter of congratulation on
his fiftieth birthday to her brother Daniel R. After referring to the
$50 he sent to her at the close of her half century, she says:

Though I can not return my love and wishes in the same kind, they
are none the less for your joy and peace in the future, neither is
my rejoicing less over the success of your first half of life. From
your many experiences, whether they have been such as you would
have chosen or not, strength, growth, discipline have resulted, and
sometimes I think all the adverse winds of life are needed to check
our ever-rising vain-glory in our own power and success....
Whatever comes to those closely united by marriage or by blood, the
one lesson from recent developments in Brooklyn is that none of the
parties ever should take in an outside person as confidant. If the
twain can not themselves restore their oneness, none other can. If
parents and children, brothers and sisters, can not adjust their
own differences among themselves, it is in vain they look to
friends outside.

What lessons we are having that not only is honesty the best
policy, but that there is nothing but most dreadful disaster in any
policy which is not based on absolute honesty. The fact is, nothing
is worth the getting, if that has to be done by cunning, falsehood,
deception. Whether it be wealth, position, office or the society of
one we love, if we have to steal it, though it may be sweet and
seemingly real and lasting, the exposure of the illicit means of
gaining it is sure to come, and then the thing itself turns to
dross. When will the children of men learn this fact, that nothing
pays but that which is obtained fairly, openly and honestly?

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