ind out the speech. I shall expect to get the inspiration,
thoughts and facts from you, and will agree to dress all the children
you bring."

She found a cordial welcome when she reached Dundee, October 17. It
rained so hard her address was deferred till the next day, as it had to
be delivered out of doors, so she visited the "art" and "culinary"
departments of the fair, and records in her diary: "I have just put an
extra paragraph in my speech on bedquilts and bad cooking." Her stage
was a big lumber wagon, and her desk the melodeon of James G. Clark,
the noted singer and Abolitionist, who held an umbrella over her head
to keep off the rain. The diary says: "More than 2,000 feet were
planted in the mud, but I had a grand listening to the very end." The
speech was a great success and was published in full in the Dundee
Record, occupying the entire front page. It was a fine exposition of
modern methods of farming and a strong plea for beautifying the home,
giving the children books and music and making life so pleasant they
would not want to leave the country for the city. These ideas at that
time were new and attracted much attention and favorable comment. This
was the first instance of a woman's making an address on such an
occasion.

At the close of 1860 an incident occurred which attracted wide
attention and strikingly illustrated Miss Anthony's unflinching courage
and firm persistence when she felt she was right. One evening in
December she was in Albany at the depository with Lydia Mott when a
lady, heavily veiled, entered and in a long, confidential talk told her
story, which in brief was as follows: She was the sister of a United
States senator and of a prominent lawyer, and in her younger days was
principal of the academy and had written several books. She married a
distinguished member of the Massachusetts Senate and they had three
children. Having discovered that her husband was unfaithful to her and
confronted him with the proofs, he was furious and threw her down
stairs, and thereafter was very abusive. When she threatened to expose
him, he had her shut up in an insane asylum, a very easy thing for
husbands to do in those days. She was there a year and a half, but at
length, through a writ of habeas corpus, was released and taken to the
home of her brother. Naturally she longed to see her children and the
husband permitted the son to visit her a few weeks. When she had to
give him up she begged for the thi