the landlady was not yet twenty
and had a baby fifteen months old. Her supper dishes were not
washed and her baby was crying, but she was equal to the occasion.
She rocked the little thing to sleep, washed the dishes and got our
supper; beautiful white bread, butter, cheese, pickles, apple and
mince pie, and excellent peach preserves. She gave us her warm
bedroom to sleep in, and on a row of pegs hung the loveliest
embroidered petticoats and baby clothes, all the work of that young
woman's fingers, while on a rack was her ironing perfectly done,
wrought undersleeves, baby dresses, embroidered underwear, etc. She
prepared a 6 o'clock breakfast for us, fried pork, mashed potatoes,
mince pie, and for me, at my especial request, a plate of delicious
baked sweet apples and a pitcher of rich milk. Now for the moral of
this story: When we came to pay our bill, the dolt of a husband
took the money and put it in his pocket. He had not lifted a hand
to lighten that woman's burdens, but had sat and talked with the
men in the bar room, not even caring for the baby, yet the law
gives him the right to every dollar she earns, and when she needs
two cents to buy a darning needle she has to ask him and explain
what she wants it for.

Here where I am writing is a similar case. The baby is very sick
with the whooping cough; the wife has dinner to get for all the
boarders, and no help; husband standing around with his hands in
his pockets. She begs him to hold the baby for just ten minutes,
but before the time is up he hands it back to her, saying, "Here,
take this child, I'm tired." Yet when we left he was on hand to
receive the money and we had to give it to him. We paid a man a
dollar to take us to the station, and saw the train pull out while
we were stuck in a snowdrift ten feet deep, with a dozen men trying
to shovel a path for us; so we had to come back. In spite of this
terrible weather, people drive eight and ten miles to our meetings.

On January 20, Mrs. Gage was called home by illness in her family,
leaving Miss Anthony to finish the campaign alone. This destroyed all
plans for her work with the anti-slavery committee, as no inducement
could have been offered which would cause her to abandon these woman's
rights meetings after having advertised them. She requested Mr. May to
release her and he did so, stipul