rning papers, and talk with one's friends in
bed-room, dining-room and parlor, dashing over the prairies at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. While men can keep house in
this charming manner, the world will not be utterly desolate when
women _do_ vote. As we consider the great versatility in the
talents of our noble countrymen, we are lost in admiration. They
seem as much at home in watching the gyrations of an egg or
oyster in hot water as the revolutions of the heavenly bodies; in
making pins and buttons to unite garments that time and haste may
have put asunder as in spanning continents with railroads and
telegraphs.

As we reached the eastern bank of the Mississippi, we were met by
a delegation of ladies and gentlemen to escort us to St. Louis,
where we found pleasant apartments in the Southern Hotel, which
is extremely well kept, and where one is always sure of a
"christian" cup of coffee. The tea and coffee in all the hotels
on the route are the most miserable concoctions of hayseed and
chiccory that were ever palmed off on a long-suffering, patient
people. We had an enthusiastic meeting in St. Louis, and found
great interest manifested in the question of woman suffrage among
many of its leading citizens. The ladies were in high spirits, as
they had just returned from Jefferson, where they had been most
graciously received by their legislators. Miss Phoebe Couzins had
made an address at the capitol which was well received. She is a
young lady of great beauty and talent, both as a writer and
speaker, and is called the Anna Dickinson of the West. She is
studying law, and hopes to be admitted to the senior class in the
law school next year. Her mother, a woman of rare capacity, is a
candidate for the Post Office of St. Louis. We hope she will get
it. Tuesday evening we had a reception in the parlors of the
hotel. Among others, we were happy to meet Mrs. Tittman, a highly
cultivated German lady, sister of Professor Helyard, whom we met
in Washington. She announced that two of the German papers had
come out in favor of woman suffrage that morning and confessed
that they were converted the night before. We were surprised to
hear that the paper controlled by Carl Schurz and Emile Pretorius
had not taken that position long ago. But, from the cha