ceive that legal training
which alone insures to women the proper knowledge and mental
discipline necessary for the preservation of their property and
their rights as citizens of this commonwealth.
This self-perpetuating Board of Trust shall consist of three
members, one man and two women.
Each shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year for
services rendered.
I appoint John Regis, Susan Walton, and Selah Adams members of
this self-perpetuating Board of Trust and executors of my will.
And they shall not give bond nor be held accountable to the court
for the manner in which they exercise these functions.
If any member or members of the said board appointed in this will
shall refuse to serve, the remaining members or member shall
choose and elect a suitable person or persons to fill each
vacancy.
No monument or stone shall mark my grave until the conditions of
this will have been fulfilled.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the
3d day of April, 1914.
[Seal]
SARAH HAYDEN MOSELY.
Signed and sealed by the above named Sarah Hayden Mosely as her last
will and testament, and by us in her presence and at her request
subscribed as witnesses.
ENOS CANN.
MARY CANN.
In a brief paragraph beneath this extraordinary document the editor
added that in an interview Judge John Regis admitted that all the
trustees had accepted, that they were confident of carrying out the
terms of the will, but that the board was not ready now to give
information concerning its plans.
No woman had ever been "interviewed" in Jordantown by a newspaper
reporter. This may have accounted for the fact that Carter did not call
upon either Mrs. Walton or Selah Adams before going to press. Besides,
the sixteen-hundred-dollar mortgage on the _Signal_ was now owned by the
Co-Citizens' Foundation. He could not trust himself even in the presence
of these powerful women. The very form of his question, his manner,
might betray his secret feelings and do incredible damage.
In fact all domestic conversation in Jordantown was now censored as
carefully both by the men and the women as if they belonged to opposing
armies. Every man regarded his wife with suspicion, and he was at the
same time conscious of a strange cheerful indifference on the part of
his wife that was unnatural and offensive.
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