thorough canvass of
fifty-four counties, during which she sold 20,000 pamphlets. The total
receipts for the four months were $2,367, and the expenses were $2,291,
leaving a balance of $76. Out of this she sent Mr. Phillips the $50 he
had advanced, but he returned it saying he thought she had earned it.

The diary relates that it was the common practice in those days for the
husband, upon coming to an eating station, to go in and get a hot
dinner, while the wife sat in the car and ate a cold lunch. It tells of
an old farmer who came with his wife to her lecture and went into the
dining-room for the best meal the tavern afforded, while the wife sat
in the parlor and nibbled a little food she had brought with her. Miss
Anthony and her companions were the only women who dared go out when
the train stopped, to walk up and down for air and exercise, and they
were considered very bold for so doing.

In 1855, to Miss Anthony's great regret, Lucy Stone and Antoinette
Brown were married. Both were very active in the reforms of the day,
and there was such a dearth of effective workers she felt that they
could ill be spared. Their semi-apologetic letters and her
half-sorrowful, half-indignant remonstrances are both amusing and
pathetic. They assure her that marriage will make no difference with
their work, that it will only give them more power and earnestness. She
knew from observation that the married woman who attempts to do public
work must neglect either it or home duties, and that the advent of
children necessarily must compel the mother to withdraw practically
from outside occupation. She was not opposed to marriage per se, but
she felt that such women as Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown might make
a sacrifice and consecrate themselves to the great needs of the world
which were demanding the services of the ablest women.

In May Miss Anthony went as usual to the Anti-Slavery Anniversary. In
regard to this her father wrote: "Were I in your place I should like to
attend these anniversaries. The women are soon to have their rights and
should there be any slavery left in the world after they are liberated,
it should be your business to help clear it out." Very few of those who
were actively engaged in the effort to secure equal rights for women
had the slightest conception of the half century and more of long and
steady work before them. To their minds the demand seemed so evident,
so just and so forcible, that prejudice and op