f a
summer resort, and yet in the good time coming, we can imagine an
improvement--that even Congress Hall, with its gentlemanly and
courteous proprietor, its sumptuous appointments and army of
waiters, may yet have an added excellence; when, by the
possession of the ballot, woman becomes a possible proprietor and
actual worker; when to earn money is as honorable for a woman as
it now is for a man, we may hope to find in every hotel not only
a host, but a hostess; and whatever may be said of the excellence
of men as housekeepers, I confidently predict that even Congress
Hall will be vastly improved by the addition.

The chief speakers at this Convention were Charlotte Wilbour,
Celia Burleigh, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Rev. Mr. Angier, J. N.
Holmes, Esq., Judge McKean, and Mrs. Dr. Strowbridge.

C. B.

THE NEWPORT CONVENTION.--_Dear Revolution_: Susan B. Anthony
having decided that neither age, color, sex, or previous
condition could shield any one from this agitation--that neither
the frosts of winter nor the heats of summer could afford its
champions any excuse for halting on the way, our forces were
commanded to be in marching order on the 25th of August, to
besiege the "butterflies of fashion" in Newport.[125] Having
gleefully chased butterflies in our young days on our way to
school, we thought it might be as well to chase them in our old
age on the way to heaven. So, obeying orders, we sailed across
the Sound one bright moonlight night with a gay party of the
"disfranchised," and found ourselves quartered on the enemy the
next morning as the sun rose in all its resplendent glory.
Although trunk after trunk--not of gossamers, laces, and
flowers, but of Suffrage ammunition, speeches, resolutions,
petitions, tracts, John Stuart Mill's last work, and folios of
_The Revolution_ had been slowly carried up the winding stairs of
the Atlantic--the brave men and fair women, who had tripped the
light fantastic toe until the midnight hours, slept heedlessly
on, wholly unaware that twelve apartments were already filled
with invaders of the strong-minded editors, reporters, and the
Hutchinson family to the third and fourth generation.

Suffice it to say the Convention continued through two days wi