l woman's thought
finds expression in the State, the church and the home. It
is presumption for man longer to legislate alone on this
vital question, when woman, too, should have a word to say
in the matter.

The morning after the convention we had a pleasant breakfast
under Mr. and Mrs. Hooker's hospitable roof, where Boston
and New York amicably broke bread and discussed the
fifteenth amendment together. All the wise and witty sayings
that passed around that social board, time fails to
chronicle.

In 1877 Governor Hubbard called the attention of the legislature
to the wrongs of married women, in the following words:

There has been for the last few years in this State much
slip-shod and fragmentary legislation in respect to the
property rights of married women. The old common law assumed
the subjugation of the wife, and stripped her of the better
part of her rights of person and nearly all her rights of
property. It is a matter of astonishment that Christian
nations should have been willing for eighteen centuries to
hold the mothers of their race in a condition of legal
servitude. It has been the scandal of jurisprudence. Some
progress has been made in reforming the law in this State,
but it has been done, as I have already said, by patch-work
and shreds, sometimes ill-considered, and often so
incongruous as to provoke vexatious litigation and defy the
wisdom of the courts. The property relations of husband and
wife do not to-day rest on any just or harmonious system.
Not only has the husband absolute disposal of all his own
property freed from all dower rights, but he is practically
the owner during coverture of all his wife's estate not
specially limited to her separate use; and after her death
has, in every case, a life use in all her personal, and in
most cases in all her real property, by a title which the
wife, no matter what may have been his ill-deserts, is
powerless to impair or defeat; whereas, on the other hand,
the wife has during the husband's life no more power of her
own right to sell, convey, or manage her own estate than if
she were a