CHAPTER XX.
WRITING "THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE." The four years following the Centennial were busy, happy ones, of varied interests and employments, public and private.

Sons and daughters graduating from college, bringing troops of young friends to visit us; the usual matrimonial entanglements, with all their promises of celestial bliss intertwined with earthly doubts and fears; weddings, voyages to Europe, business ventures--in this whirl of plans and projects our heads, hearts, and hands were fully occupied.

Seven boys and girls dancing round the fireside, buoyant with all life's joys opening before them, are enough to keep the most apathetic parents on the watch-towers by day and anxious even in dreamland by night.

My spare time, if it can be said that I ever had any, was given during these days to social festivities.

The inevitable dinners, teas, picnics, and dances with country neighbors, all came round in quick succession.