The following incident shows not only what physical training will
do in giving a girl self-reliance in emergencies, but it shows
the nice sense of humor that grows out of conscious power with
which a girl can always take a presuming youth at disadvantage.
No doubt Miss McCosh, as a student in Princeton, could as easily
distance her compeers in science, philosophy and the languages,
as she did the dude on the highway. Why not open the doors of
that institution and let her make the experiment?

The distinguished president of Princeton College, Dr.
McCosh, has two daughters who are great walkers. They are in
the habit of going to Trenton and back, a distance of about
twenty miles, where they do their shopping. One day a dude
accosted Miss Bridget on the road, and said, in the usual
manner: "Beg pardon, but may I walk with you?" She replied,
"Certainly," and quickened her pace a little. After the
first half-mile the masher began to gasp, and then, as she
passed on with a smile, he sat down panting on a mile-stone,
and mopped the perspiration from his brow.

At the sixteenth national convention, held in Washington, March,
1884, the State was well represented;[283] Mrs. Hanaford gave an
address on "New Jersey as a Leader." In her letter to the
convention, Mrs. Hussey wrote:

An old gentleman, Aaron Burr Harrison, a resident of East
Orange, has just passed on to his long home, full of
years--eighty-eight--and with a good record. He told me
about his sister's voting in New jersey, when he was a
child--probably about 1807. The last time I took a petition
for woman suffrage to him, he signed it willingly, and his
daughter also.

February 12, 1884, a special committee of the New Jersey Assembly
granted a hearing[284] on the petition of Mrs. Celia B.
Whitehead, and 220 other citizens of Bloomfield, asking the
restoration of woman's right to vote; fully one-half of the
members of the Assembly were present. Mrs. Seagrove handed the
committee an ancient printed copy of the original constitution of
New Jersey, dated July 2, 1776. The name of James Seagrove, her
husband's grandfather, is endorsed upon it in his own
hand-writing. In the suffrage clause of this documen