pleased and innocent surprise, as if she were
gazing on the world for the first time--the round, unwinking, interested
look a baby's eyes have when something attractive is held up before
them.

Let me give in a paragraph, before I swing off into the bypaths that
always allure me, the consecutive suffrage events of the past quarter
of a century. Having done this, I can dwell on each as casually as I
choose, for it is possible to describe only a few incidents here and
there; and I shall not be departing from the story of my life, for my
life had become merged in the suffrage cause.

Of the preliminary suffrage campaigns in Kansas, made in company with
"Aunt Susan," I have already written, and it remains only to say that
during the second Kansas campaign yellow was adopted as the suffrage
color. In 1890, '92, and '93 we again worked in Kansas and in South
Dakota, with such indefatigable and brilliant speakers as Mrs. Catt (to
whose efforts also were largely due the winning of Colorado in '93),
Mrs. Laura Johns of Kansas, Mrs. Julia Nelson, Henry B. Blackwell, Dr.
Helen V. Putnam of Dakota, Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, Rev. Olympia Browne of
Wisconsin, and Dr. Mary Seymour Howell of New York. In '94, '95, and '96
special efforts were devoted to Idaho, Utah, California, and Washington,
and from then on our campaigns were waged steadily in the Western
states.

The Colorado victory gave us two full suffrage states, for in 1869
the Territory of Wyoming had enfranchised women under very interesting
conditions, not now generally remembered. The achievement was due to
the influence of one woman, Esther Morris, a pioneer who was as good a
neighbor as she was a suffragist. In those early days, in homes far from
physicians and surgeons, the women cared for one another in sickness,
and Esther Morris, as it happened, once took full and skilful charge
of a neighbor during the difficult birth of the latter's child. She had
done the same thing for many other women, but this woman's husband was
especially grateful. He was also a member of the Legislature, and he
told Mrs. Morris that if there was any measure she wished put through
for the women of the territory he would be glad to introduce it. She
immediately took him at his word by asking him to introduce a bill
enfranchising women, and he promptly did so.

The Legislature was Democratic, and it pounced upon the measure as a
huge joke. With the amiable purpose of embarrassing the Governor