tlemen who had wives and
daughters looked in the faces of those half-bearded boys mocking
at women wishing to study medicine, and asked, "Are these the
fellows who wish to come to our homes and practice?" And when
those boys knew they would not be welcome to those houses, they
smoothed down their anger, went back to their studies, and have
behaved better ever since. The speaker mentioned the case of a
sister of the Fowlers who kept a horse and carriage, and a man to
drive. She has a large practice, with $15,000 a year. They next
asked that there should be women lawyers. She believed the day
was not far off when women would as worthily fill that as any
other profession. What they asked was, that woman should have a
wider sphere of activity.

The speaker next alluded to the fact that the captain of a ship
going to California had fallen sick and died. The captain's wife,
who had been on many voyages, asked the sailors over the dead
body of her husband to be as loyal to her as they had been to
him, and every man swore fealty to the woman, whom they knew to
be worthy of command. When she brought the ship safe to port, the
grateful underwriters made up a purse for the woman who had saved
the ship.

After relating a similar anecdote in relation to a ship that
sailed from China, the speaker narrated the progress made by
women in being admitted to the Christian ministry. When they had
so many rights, they were sure they could earn their own bread;
and they must have the right to vote in this Government, where
they were taxed, and where their sons could be sent to fight in
war. In a republican government they were entitled to vote; and
now the Republican party--the great Republican party that had
swept the country by such a magnificent vote--had made the cause
its own and could carry them on to triumph; giving them the
suffrage as it had given it to the negroes. The Convention at
Philadelphia listened respectfully to their claim, and the
Republican party of the State of Massachusetts had put it in
their platform. In the last campaign the suffragists won five
hundred thousand votes of men who were bound to vote for them by
and by, and they were sure to win. She believed the final hour of
victory could not be far away.

Mrs. HOWE, chairman o