eory, we should not
see these myriads of women thus thrust out to get their living.
Society must either provide great establishments maintained by
taxation to care for women, or else the doors of all trades and
callings must be thrown wide open to them.... This woman's movement
promises an entire change of the conditions of wages and support.
The status of woman can not be materially changed while the
subsistence question remains as at present."

Miss Anthony was entertained at the home of Governor Jewell, afterwards
Postmaster-General. One morning she went over to Mrs. Hooker's and
found all her guests at the breakfast table, Henry Ward Beecher, Wm.
Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Severance, Mrs. Davis and others. She received a
hearty welcome and Mrs. Hooker insisted she should sit down and have a
cup of tea or coffee. Mr. Beecher joined in the entreaty, saying: "Now,
Miss Anthony, you know you have to make a big speech today. When I want
to be very effective and make people cry, I drink a cup of tea before
speaking; when I want to be very clever and make them laugh, I drink
coffee; but when I want them to cry half the time and laugh the other
half, I take a cup of each."

In a letter to Miss Anthony after she returned home Mrs. Hooker said:
"I am astonished at the praise I receive for my part in the convention,
and humbled too, for I realize how worthy of all these pleasant and
commendatory words you and others have been all these years, and what
have you received--or rather what have you not received? Thank God,
that is all over now and you are to have blue sky and clear sailing. It
must be through suffering we enter the gates of peace." But the peace
was a long way off and the hardest struggle was yet to come! A little
later Mrs. Hooker wrote to a friend:

I can't tell you how my heart swells--but there is present within
me one undercurrent of feeling that will come to the surface ever
and anon, viz., the wonderful dignity, strength and purity of the
early workers in this reform. I can't wait for history to do them
justice; I want to make history today, and so far as in me lies I
will do it. I have come in at the death and get a large share of
the glory, and lo, here are these, a great company, who have been
in the field for thirty years, and a whole generation has passed
them by unrecognized. Every one here says, "Our noble friend Susan
has carried the da