y be seen
how weak and wild, strength itself becomes, when the ally of
prejudice and precedent.

The _Indiana Farmer_, exceptionally well edited, having a wide
circulation in the agricultural sections of the State, and
enjoying there a powerful influence, is an outspoken advocate of
equal suffrage. From statistics regarding papers published
outside of Indianapolis, it may be safe to say that two hundred
of them favor, with varying degrees of constancy, giving the
ballot to women. On the staff of nearly all the papers whose
status is above given, are women, who in their respective
departments faithfully serve the common cause. During the last
few years, efforts have been directed to the capture of the local
press, and many of the county papers now have a department edited
by women. In most instances this work is done gratuitously, and
their success in this new line, entering upon it as they have
without previous training, illustrates the versatility of woman's
powers. Mrs. M. E. Price of Kokomo, Mrs. Sarah P. Franklin of
Anderson, Mrs. Laura Sandafur of Franklin, and Mrs. Ida M. Harper
of Terre Haute, deserve especial mention for their admirable work
in the papers of their respective towns. Mrs. Laura C. Arnold is
the chief editor of the Columbus _Democrat_, and is the only
woman in the State having editorial charge of a political party
paper, _Our Herald_, under the able editorial management of Mrs.
Helen M. Gougar, was a weekly published at Lafayette. It was
devoted to securing the re-passage and adoption of the woman
suffrage and prohibition amendments. It was a strong, aggressive
sheet, and deserved its almost unparalleled success.[350]

In closing this able report for Indiana a few facts in regard to
the author may interest the general reader as well as the student
of history.

Mrs. May Wright Sewall has been well known for many years in
Indianapolis in the higher departments of education, and has
recently crowned her efforts as a teacher by establishing a model
classical school for girls, in which she is not only training their
minds to vigorous thought, but taking the initiative steps to
secure for them an equally vigorous physical development. Her
pupils are required to wear a comfortable gymnastic costume, all
their garments loosely resting on their shoulders; corsets, tight