nce and Social reform in this age of
Moral Suasion, is for our Sex to cast their United influences into
the balance.

Ladies! there is no Neutral position for us to assume. If we
sustain not this noble enterprise, both by precept and example,
then is our influence on the side of Intemperance. If we say we
love the Cause, and then sit down at our ease, surely does our
action speak the lie. And now permit me once more to beg of you to
lend your aid to this great Cause, the Cause of God and all
Mankind.

The next day on the streets, so the letters say, everybody was
exclaiming, "Miss Anthony is the smartest woman who ever has been in
Canajoharie." Soon afterwards the school closed and, after spending the
summer visiting eastern relatives and friends, Miss Anthony returned to
Rochester in the autumn of 1849. The thing she remembers most vividly
is how she reveled in fruit. All the young orchards her father had
planted were now bearing, including a thousand peach trees, and for the
first time in her life she had all the peaches she wanted, and "lived
on them for a month."

The years of 1850 and 1851 Daniel Anthony conducted his insurance
business in Syracuse and Susan remained at home, taking entire charge
of the farm, superintending the planting of the crops, the harvesting
and the selling. She also did most of the housework, as her mother was
in delicate health, her sister was teaching school and both brothers
were away. In the winter of 1852, she went into a school in Rochester
as supply for three months. She found, however, that her taste for
teaching was entirely gone, her work was without inspiration, her
interest and sympathy had become enlisted in other things. She longed
to take an active part in the two great reforms of temperance and
anti-slavery, which now were absorbing public attention; she could not
endure the narrow and confining life of the school-room, and so, in the
spring, she abandoned teaching forever, after an experience of fifteen
years.

[Footnote 9: Nearly fifty years afterwards, when Mr. Hagar was at the
head of the Girls' High School, in Salem, Mass., Miss Anthony visited
him and was most cordially invited to address his pupils "on any
subject she pleased, even woman suffrage."]

[Footnote 10: The play for this occasion was written by James Arkell,
father of W.J. Arkell, proprietor of the Judge. He was a pupil in the
boys' department of the old academy.]