With a most cynical smile he said "he was not the puppet of logic, but the slave of practical politics." We met most of our suffrage coadjutors in different parts of California.
I spent a few days with Mrs.Elizabeth B.Schenck, one of the earliest pioneers in the suffrage movement.

She was a cultivated, noble woman, and her little cottage was a gem of beauty and comfort, surrounded with beautiful gardens and a hedge of fish-geraniums over ten feet high, covered with scarlet flowers.

It seemed altogether more like a fairy bower than a human habitation.

The windmills all over California, for pumping water, make a very pretty feature in the landscape, as well as an important one, as people are obliged to irrigate their gardens during the dry season.

In August the hills are as brown as ours in December.
Here, too, I first met Senator Sargent's family, and visited them in Sacramento City, where we had a suffrage meeting in the evening and one for women alone next day.