ithin the limits of reason. Essays are read and
debated, and many interesting off-hand speeches are made. It is
an entirely separate organization from the Connecticut State
Suffrage Association, founded in 1869. But its membership is not
confined to the city; it invites people throughout the State, or
in other States, to become members--people of all classes and of
all beliefs. Opponents of woman suffrage are always welcome, for
these furnish the spice of debate. Among the topics discussed has
been that of woman and the church, and upon this subject Mrs.
Stanton has written the club several letters.

Last spring (1885) a number of the members of the club were given
hearings before the Committee on Woman Suffrage in the
legislature in reference to a bill then under consideration,
which was exceedingly limited in its provisions. The House of
Representatives improved it and then passed it, but it was
afterwards defeated in the Senate. Some of the meetings of the
club have been held in Hartford's handsome capitol, a room having
been allowed for its use, and a number of members of the House of
Representatives have taken part in the discussions. Mrs. Collins,
president of the club, is always to be depended upon for good
work, and Miss Hall, its vice-president, is active and efficient.
She is in herself an illustration of what women can become if
they only have sufficient confidence and force of will. She is a
practicing lawyer, and a successful one.

FOOTNOTES:

[158] The life of William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. 1.: The Century
Company, New York.

[159] She was soon followed by Mrs. Middlebrook and Mrs. Lucy R.
Elms, with warm benedictions. The latter called some meetings in
her neighborhood in the autumn of 1868, and entertained us most
hospitably at her beautiful home.

[160] Those who leave the tangled problem of life to God for
solution find, sooner or later, that God leaves it to them to
settle in their own way.--[E. C. S.

[161] Among them were Paulina Wright Davis, Dr. Clemence Lozier,
Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, Celia Burleigh, Caroline M. Severance, Rev. Olympia
Brown, Frances Ellen Burr, Charlotte B. Wilbour, William Lloyd
Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel I. Burton, John Hooker, the
Hutchinsons, with Sister Abby and her husband, Ludlow Patto