The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-22

most utter mother, the most complete
home-maker and housekeeper. Susan An
thony said TO her once few years after
lost your power as a speaker for the cause
since you married. She replied: I have
lost it since my Alice came, but 1t will come
back And every one knows the daugh-
ter's devotion to her mothers work. Gil
bert Haven-somehow L never could call
him bishop-(Mrs Livermore smiled) was a
sort of neighbor of ours. and he used 70
come to our house here and talk over peo-
pie with us. He said one time that he be-
lieved Lucy Stone was the one woman in
die for woman suffrage. Would you, Mrs
Livermore" he asked me. And said l was
sure 1 would not, for it is coming, coming
all in good time. But that said Gilbert
Haven, isn't Lucy's way of giving herself
wholly to a cause. She would go to the
stake and die to get suffrage for women
next week.
Lesser women know nothing at all of
the endless duties and calls upon her."
went on Mrs. Livermore. Little gentle
woman as the world called her, she could
weigh twenty tons when she had a mind
to throw herself into the balance for the
oppressed.
world and the Almighty on top of 1t
couldn't have made her bulge one inch.
But then, the Almighty was always on
her side. She had a passion for justice.
All her life long it was equal chance she
wanted for women, and she could. not get
1T here soon enough: She was the most
lutely on her statements. If she told me
there were 45o people in room I should
not doubt it. but l should know there were
exactly $50. and not 449 or 451: She was not
to be moved from any act of loving kind
ness, either, by any reasoning. l remem-
Der on one occasion she was about to take
up and help a poor woman for whom /
believed little or nothing could be done; a
woman | had been through the mill with
and had not succeeded in helping as
wished. I told Lucy Stone all / could tell
her. 1 begged her not to burden herself
She had cares enough already. She heard
me, through (and l talked. / assure YOU,
and then she said in her soft voice, Il be-
lieve all you say, but I shall do what L
intended for her Just the same Her house
e always bo home and Tor sb every vana
came to ask it, Nobody knows-not even
the heart-broken husband, who has lived
sometimes u faitering hopes ' for it. how
many she has cared for in her own hone
of those who needed lift in work of life
ago to be a sister to her Alice, but the
child died before she reached womanhood,
after, perhaps, ten years in that home.
when Lucy Stone celebrated her seven
ty-fifth birthday j wrote her letter.
told her didn't know whether she would
wish to be congratulated or commiserated
was good j wished to congratulate her,
and If it seemed too far along the way,
and she would rather have commiseration.
she should have the commiseration with
all my heart, for we were old comrades in
the fight, and I'm every way must keep to-
Her answer was like bugle callp Mrs.
Livermores face frightened. 'She said she
would never drop out of the procession.
for the last time and she held out her
hand and repeated some of my words and
said, And now ! have dropped out But
the words she added were of perfect fear
lessness of death. L have Ilways believed
it is better further on she said; and when
1 took her hand before 1 came away, she
said: We shall shake hands again some
time, somewhere. We shall know each
other and be comrades STILL ="