form with quite a striking group of ladies and gentlemen. The
morning session was occupied with the usual preliminary business
matters, choosing officers, presenting resolutions, and planning new
aggressive steps for the coming year. Susan B. Anthony was President
on this occasion, and fulfilled her duties to the general
satisfaction. During the evening session the hall was crowded, all the
available space for either sitting or standing was occupied, the
platform and steps were densely packed, and this at twenty-five cents
admission.

Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Mott, Mrs. Rose, Mr. Garrison, Mr. Higginson, Miss
Brown, and Lucy Stone all spoke with their usual effect. Mrs. Eliza
Woodson Farnham, the author of "Woman and her Era," spoke at length on
the "Superiority of Woman."

She presented a series of resolutions, recognizing the right of
man in the primary era in his physical and cerebral structure, to
be the conqueror, the mechanic, the inventor, the clearer of
forests, the pioneer of civilization, but she looked to the
dawning of a higher era, when woman should assume her true
position in harmony with her superior organism, her delicacy of
structure, her beauty of person, her great powers of endurance,
and thus prove herself not only man's equal in influence and
power, but his superior in many of the noblest virtues. In
woman's creative power during maternity, she recognized her as
second only to God himself. Woman should recognize man as a John
the Baptist, going before to prepare the world for her coming, he
recognizing her greater divinity as equal in the Godhead, as
heavenly mother as well as father.

Mrs. Farnham[156] enforced her theory of woman's superiority in a long
speech, which was received with apparent satisfaction by the audience,
though several on the platform dissented from the claim of
superiority, thinking it would be a sufficient triumph over the
tyrannies of the past, if popular thought could be educated to the
idea of the equality of the sexes.

Mrs. Sarah Hallock read an extract from the Statutes of New York,
giving the items set aside by law for use of the wife and minor
children, in case the husband died without a will.

(Extract from the Statutes of New York).

ARTICLES INVENTORIED, BUT NOT APPROVED, BELONGING TO THE WIDOW
AND MINOR CHILDREN.

1st. All spinning-wheel