y a number of delicious meals. Then a very cold winter
followed and there was no one to care for the tender plants. In
December came a letter from the irrepressible brother-in-law, Aaron
McLean: "As to your raspberry 'spec,' I regret to tell you it has 'gone
up.' The poor, little, helpless things expired of a bad cold about two
weeks since. Do you remember that text of Scripture, which says, 'She
who by the plow would thrive, herself must either hold or drive'? It
has cost you $200 to learn the truth of it." Her sister Mary wrote: "I
hope, Susan, when you get a husband and children, you will treat them
better than you did your raspberry plants, and not leave them to their
fate at the beginning of winter."

It was a deep regret to Miss Anthony that she could not give the
necessary time and care to make this experiment a success, as she was
anxious to encourage women to go into the pursuit of agriculture,
horticulture, floriculture, anything which would take them out of
doors. In a letter to Mr. Higginson she says: "The salvation of the
race depends, in a great measure, upon rescuing women from their
hothouse existence. Whether in kitchen, nursery or parlor, all alike
are shut away from God's sunshine. Why did not your Caroline Plummer,
of Salem, why do not all of our wealthy women leave money for
industrial and agricultural schools for girls, instead of ever and
always providing for boys alone?" This is one of the many instances
where Miss Anthony foreshadowed reforms and improvements which have
been fulfilled in the present generation.

In 1858 is presented same routine of unremitting work which
characterized so many previous years. The winter was given up to
anti-slavery meetings with their attendant hardships. Miss Anthony has
great scorn for those who talk regretfully of the "good old days." She
thinks one lecture season under the conditions which then existed would
be an effectual cure to any longing for them one might have. The
conveniences of modern life, bathrooms with plenty of hot water,
toiletrooms, steam-heated houses, gas and hundreds of comforts so
common at the present time that one scarcely can realize they have not
always existed, were comparatively unknown. One of the greatest trials
these travellers had to endure was the wretched cooking which was the
rule and not exception among our much-praised foremothers. In one of
the old diaries is this single ejaculation, "O, the crimes that are
committed in t