lors every week, where Mrs. Phelps also gave many
pleasant receptions, breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners. It was a kind
of ladies' exchange, where reformers were sure to meet each other.
These pleasant rooms in a fashionable part of the city gave a fresh
impetus to our cause, and the regular meetings, seemingly so novel and
_recherche_, called out several new speakers. This was the school
where Lilie Devereux Blake, Dr. Clemence Lozier, Isabella Beecher
Hooker, and others made their first attempts at oratory.

[124] In _The Revolution_ of May 20th we find the following:

NATIONAL WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.--This organization was formed
at the reunion held at the Woman's Bureau at the close of the
Convention in New York. Delegates from nineteen States, including
California and Washington Territory, were present on the occasion, and
all felt the importance of an organization distinctively for Woman's
Suffrage, in view of the fact that a Sixteenth Amendment to the
Federal Constitution to secure this is now before the people. The
Association has held several meetings to plan the work for the coming
year. Committees are in correspondence with friends in the several
States to complete the list of officers.

_President._--Elizabeth Cady Stanton. _Vice-Presidents._--Elizabeth B.
Phelps, New York; Anna E. Dickinson, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Kate N.
Doggett, Illinois; Madam Anneke, Wisconsin; Mrs. Lucy Elmes,
Connecticut; Mrs. Senator Henderson, Missouri; Mattie Griffith Brown,
Massachusetts; Mrs. Nicholas Smith, Kansas; Lucy A. Snow, Maine;
Elizabeth B. Schenck, California; Josephine S. Griffing, D.C.; Paulina
W. Davis, Rhode Island; Miss Phoebe W. Couzins, Missouri.
_Corresponding Secretaries._--Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard, Ida Greeley,
Adelaide Hallock. _Recording Secretaries._--Abby Burton Crosby, Sarah
E. Fuller. _Treasurer._--Elizabeth Smith Miller. _Executive
Committee._--Ernestine L. Rose, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Mathilde F.
Wendt, Mary F. Gilbert, Susan B. Anthony. _Advisory Counsel._--Matilda
Joslyn Gage, New York; Mrs. Francis Minor, Missouri; Adeline Thompson,
Pennsylvania; Mrs. M. B. Longley, Ohio; Mrs. Dr. J. P. Root, Kansas;
Lilie Peckham, Wisconsin.

_Constitution_--Article 1. This organization shall be called the
National Woman Suffrage Association.

Article 2. Its object shall be to secure the Ballot to the women of
the nation on equal terms with men.

Article 3. Any citizen of the United States favoring this o