ck when the train had started again, I saw "Aunt Susan"
standing in the same spot on the platform and staring after it with
incredulous eyes; but I was right, for I discovered that by going
up into another state I could get a train which would take me to
my destination in time for the lecture that night. It was a fine
illustration of my pet theory that if one intends to get somewhere it is
better to start, even in the wrong direction, than to stand still.

Again and again in our work we had occasion to marvel over men's lack of
understanding of the views of women, even of those nearest and dearest
to them; and we had an especially striking illustration of this at one
of our hearings in Washington. A certain distinguished gentleman (we
will call him Mr. H----) was chairman of the Judiciary, and after we had
said what we wished to say, he remarked:

"Your arguments are logical. Your cause is just. The trouble is that
women don't want suffrage. My wife doesn't want it. I don't know a
single woman who does want it."

As it happened for this unfortunate gentleman, his wife was present at
the hearing and sitting beside Miss Anthony. She listened to his words
with surprise, and then whispered to "Aunt Susan":

"How CAN he say that? _I_ want suffrage, and I've told him so a hundred
times in the last twenty years."

"Tell him again NOW," urged Miss Anthony. "Here's your chance to impress
it on his memory."

"Here!" gasped the wife. "Oh, I wouldn't dare."

"Then may I tell him?"

"Why--yes! He can think what he pleases, but he has no right to publicly
misrepresent me."

The assent, hesitatingly begun, finished on a sudden note of firmness.
Miss Anthony stood up.

"It may interest Mr. H----," she said, "to know that his wife DOES wish
to vote, and that for twenty years she has wished to vote, and has often
told him so, though he has evidently forgotten it. She is here beside
me, and has just made this explanation."

Mr. H---- stammered and hesitated, and finally decided to laugh. But
there was no mirth in the sound he made, and I am afraid his wife had
a bad quarter of an hour when they met a little later in the privacy of
their home.

Among other duties that fell to my lot at this period were numerous
suffrage debates with prominent opponents of the Cause. I have already
referred to the debate in Kansas with Senator Ingalls. Equaling this
in importance was a bout with Dr. Buckley, the distinguished Methodist
debat