The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-26
BOWEN ERRILI

things over, and I know what I'm gong 70
do. Tomorrow is Sunday. Now, l snah
go to church tomorrow. l shaI1 stay az
and cut all those bad laws out or the DOohS,
and then it will be all right
Flora, of course. told my tatheT a3o ~ =
and explained il all to me; told me uldI
even if all his books were burned there We're
hundreds of lawyers all through the SCdIe
with libraries like his.
till you are older and then go up 10 tIe
Legislature and ask them 10 changS theSG
laws So from that time on L liVed, as L
an still living. with that purpose In Vlew'
Now. Susan. tell your story: .s+ or+iro-
well" said Miss Anthony, III was ehthTe-
iy different with me. j guess ! was Ike
TopsY and Jest growed to beieve IN women
Quaker and trained us TO think that girls
were just as good as boys. ana had as 5000
a right to earn money ana De palu as ven.
l think my first sense Of injustice was @hen
I BEGAN TO teach school when L was fifteen
years old. At first 1 taught Ior $I Il Weeh
and my board. But when had auvanceu
who were no better teachers than j, re-
ceived $50 a month. That Interested me In
began work for the womans property law.
Still. / had never thought OF voting.
I'm 1878 my sister Mary. VINO was theh a
young girl. and my father and mother went
to an an~ti,sIavery convention at Rochester.
and when they came home l heard notalng
but Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Mott, now Iovely
LAUGHED at them and at the idea OF women
voting. But MISC there was a convention
in Worcester; Mass; ana r tl0fa fbe TTap55e6irftss
of the speeches, something L had never had
an opportunity to do before. In lS7l. at
Syracuse, L met Mrs. Stanton on the corner
nm her Wav home TO dinner you Know. she
didn't invite me home with her. but Mrs.
Bloomer and 1 went over and called IN the
afternoon, ana L We DeSh q "ohloh S'iii"o-0'
And have you and Mrs. Stanton worked
together for forty years without q lalllnS
1--WE agree in the main and differ just
enough in detail to make things interesting,
"if Won want to know how mother and
Susan act together" said Mrs. Lawrence.
Mrs. Stanton's daughter. who had now
Joined the party, IN give you a letter L
wrote about them when they were writing
their old history OF woman's suffrage
HOW THEY WORKED TOGETHER.
Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony under
took to demur at first, but finally yielded
with the best possible grace. The letter
was written in 1885, but Mrs. Lawrence as
serts that things are much the same now
as then. 1t was dated at Tenafiy. n. j..
where Mrs. Stanton was living.
Mother and Susan" wrote Mrs. Law
renee. ''are busy all day and far into the
night on Volume III of T History of
Woman Suffrage AS our house faces the
SOUl1. lnG SUNSHINE SlECtstAk> III ali OdS. III
the center of q large room, 20 by 90, witt
an immense DAY window, hardwood floor,
and open fire, beside Il substantial Office
desk with innumefaDle ana doors,
there. vis-a-vis, sit the historians. sur
rounded with manuscripts and letters from
Maine to Louisiana. In the center of the
desk are two inkstandS and two bottles of
mucilage, to say nothing OF divers pens,
pencils, scissors, knives and eraSerS. AS
these famous women grow intense in work
ing up. some glowing sentence, or FASTING
some thrilling quotation from John Stuart
Mil, Dumas, or Secretan, | have seen them
again and again dip their pens in the
mucilage and their brushes in the ink.
facts of history. where, indeed, hey should
be il that blessed word fms is ever to be
written. Sub rosa, it Is as good as a
comedy TO watch these souls from day TO
day. They. start off pretty well III the
morning. They are fresh and arniable. They
write page after page with alacrity; they
laugh and talk. poke the fire by turns, and
admire the flowers / have placed on their
desk. Everything is harmonious for a sea-
son.
'But after straining their eyes over the
most illeSible disorderly manuscripts | ever
behelG, suddenly the whole literary sky is
overSpread. From the adjoining room /
hear q hot dispute. The dictionary, the
encyclopedia, all the journals neatly piled
in a corner. are overhGuled and tossed
and tossed about in the most emphatic
manner.
susan is punctilious On late5. mother on
philosophy. but each contends as stoutly II
the others domain as If IL were her own
Putes run so bigh that down go the pens,
and one sails ont Of one door anl one out
of the other. And then. just rs / have
made up my mind that this beautiful
| minated. / see them. arm in arm. walEing