s don't de facto love
their husbands if they are dissipated. Everyday observation proves
the utter falsity of this statement, and if there is one
characteristic of the sex which more than another elevates and
ennobles it, it is the _persistency_ and intensity of woman's love
for man. But what does Miss Anthony know of the thousand delights
of married life; of the sweet stream of affection, of the golden
ray of love which beams ever through life's ills? Bah! Of a like
disgusting character was her advice to mothers about not using
stimulants, even when prescribed by physicians, for the benefit of
the young. What in the name of crying babies does Miss Anthony know
about such matters?

In our humble judgment, it is by no means complimentary to wives
and mothers to be found present at such discourses, encouraging
such untruthful and pernicious advice. If Miss Anthony's ideas were
practically applied in the relations of life, women would sink from
the social elevation they now hold and become the mere _appendages_
of men. Miss Anthony concluded with a flourish of trumpets, that
the woman's rights question could not be put down, that women's
souls were beginning to expand, etc., after which she gathered her
short skirts about her tight pants, sat down and wiped her
spectacles.

A letter written to Miss Anthony by her father during this tour shows
that even thus early he recognized the utter inability of women to
effect great reforms without a vote: "I see notices of your meetings in
multitudes of papers, all, with a few exceptions, in a rejoicing mood
that woman at last has taken hold in earnest to aid in the reformation
of the mighty evils of the day. Yet with all this 'rejoicing' probably
not one of these papers would advocate placing the ballot in the hands
of woman as the easiest, quickest and most efficient way of enabling
her to secure not only this but other reforms. They are willing she
should talk and pray and 'flock by herself in conventions and tramp up
and down the State, footsore and weary, gathering petitions to be
spurned by legislatures, but not willing to invest her with the only
power that would do speedy and efficient work."

At this time interest in the study of phrenology was at its height and
while Miss Anthony was in New York she had an examination made of her
head by Nelson Sizer (with Fowler & Wells) who, blindfolded