"Oh, them wuz religious meetin's," sez she.

"Well," sez I, "mebby these wimmen think their meetin' is religious. You
know the Bible sez, 'Faith and works should go together,' and some of the
leaders of this movement have showed by their works as religious a sperit
and wielded aginst injustice to young workin' wimmen as powerful a weepon
as that axe of the 'Postles the Bible tells about. And you said you went
every day to the Hudson-Fulton doin's and hearn every out-door lecture; you
writ me that there wuz probable a million wimmen attendin' them out-door
meetin's, and that wuz curosity and pleasure huntin' that took them, and
this is a meetin' of justice and right."

"Oh, shaw!" sez Lorinda agin, with her eye on Polly. "Wimmen have all the
rights they want or need." Lorinda's husband bein' rich and lettin' her
have her way she is real foot loose, and don't feel the need of any more
rights for herself, but I told her then and there some of the wrongs and
sufferin's of Serepta Pester, and bein' good-hearted (but obstinate and
bigoted) she gin in that the errents wuz hefty, and that Serepta wuz to be
pitied, but she insisted that wimmen's votin' wouldn't help matters.

But Euphrasia Pottle, a poor relation from Troy, spoke up. "After my
husband died one of my girls went into a factory and gits about half what
the men git for the same work, and my oldest girl who teaches in the
public school don't git half as much for the same work as men do, and her
school rooms are dark, stuffy, onhealthy, and crowded so the children are
half-choked for air, and the light so poor they're havin' their eyesight
spilte for life, and new school books not needed at all, are demanded
constantly, so some-one can make money."

"Yes," sez I, "do you spoze, Lorinda, if intelligent mothers helped control