of principle, is a fearful thing; but when, a person comes
before the public, saying by his life that he prefers the
pleasures of sin to the paths of virtue, it seems to me that
the way is plain--to withhold our patronage as a matter of
public policy."

On the Fourth of July, 1874, Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake was
invited to make the usual address in East Orange, which she
did before a large audience in the public hall. Says the
_Journal_: "Mrs. Blake's speech was characterized by
simplicity of style and appropriateness of sentiment." She
made mention of Molly Pitcher, Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Hall of
New Jersey, and of noted women of other States, who did good
service in Revolutionary times, when the country needed the
help of her daughters as well as her sons.

In the summer of 1876 a noteworthy meeting was held in
Orange in the interest of women. A number of ladies and
gentlemen met in my parlor to listen to statements in
relation to what is called the "social evil," to be made by
the Rev. J. P. Gledstone and Mr. Henry J. Wilson, delegates
from the "British, Continental and General Federation for
the Abolition of Government Regulation of Prostitution." It
is due to the English gentlemen to say that they gave some
very strong reasons for bringing the disagreeable subject
before the meeting, and that they handled it with becoming
delicacy, though with great plainness.

"Ann A. Horton, who died in June, 1875, at the Old Ladies'
Home, Newark, bequeathed $2,000 to Princeton College, to
found a scholarship to be called by her name." Would not the
endowment of a "free bed" in Mrs. Horton's true alma-mater,
the Old Ladies' Home, have been a far wiser bequest than the
foundation of a scholarship in Princeton--a college which,
while fattening on enormous dole received from women, offers
them nothing in return?

In relation to the law giving the mothers of New Jersey some
legal claim to their children, Mrs. Hussey writes:

I have often heard it said that Kansas is the only State
where the married mother has any legal ownership in her
children; but the women of New Jersey ha