To the library were added numerous other disguises, such as "reading circles," "sewing societies," "women's clubs." In many communities the appearance of men in any of these enterprises would create suspicion or even raise a mob.
But the women worked on quietly, effectively, and unnoticed.
The matron of a family would be provided with the best riding-horse which the neighborhood could furnish.

Mounted upon her steed, she would sally forth in the morning, meet her carefully selected friends in a town twenty miles away, gain information as to what had been accomplished, give information as to the work in other parts of the district, distribute new literature, confer as to the best means of extending their labors, and return in the afternoon.

The father of such a family was quite content with the humbler task of cooperation by supplying the sinews of war.

There was complete equality between husband and wife because their aims were identical and each rendered the service most convenient and most needed.

Women did what men could not do.