to the difference in the labor of the kitchen and
other pursuits open to women. Let the printer advertise for two
girls to set type, and a hundred applications will be made, while
women for the kitchen are very scarce. The reason for this is,
that all other kinds of work are better paid. When woman's labor
is justly remunerated and equally respected in all departments of
industry, there will be no such difference in the supply of help
for the factory, shop, and kitchen.

FRANCES D. GAGE said: The reason why the work of the kitchen is
looked upon as degrading, is because the girl is never taken by
the hand. Where are your philanthropic ladies who assist her?
Where is she to go when her work is done? Does she sit in the
same room with you? Does she eat at the same table? No, to your
shame, she is confined to the basement and the garret. It is not
so much because the pay for kitchen labor is not so good, as it
is chiefly because of the public opinion that they are employed
to _serve_. It is true that there are many who will take a
quarter off the wages of a girl to put a new bow on their own
bonnets. The men are not to be blamed for this; they have enough
sins to answer for.

Mrs. COE said: It would afford women great pleasure to be able to
pay their own expenses on pleasure excursions and to the
concert-room, instead of being always compelled to allow the
gentlemen to foot the bills for them. Women must have equal pay
for equal work. Among the Quakers the sexes stand on an equality,
and everything moves on smoothly and happily.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY, after relating several instances of the
injustice of the laws that made the wife subject to the husband,
said: And all these wrongs are to be redressed by appeals to the
State Legislatures. In New York and Ohio the women had already
commenced with every prospect of success. Thousands of petitions
had been sent into both Legislatures asking for suffrage and
equal property rights, and their Committees had granted hearings
to our representatives--Caroline M. Severance, in Ohio; Ernestine
L. Rose, Rev. William Henry Channing, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, and herself, in New York. And closed
with an earnest appeal to the women of every State to petition,
PETITION, remembering tha