Yet the conversation at their receptions was so brilliant that the most elegantly served refreshments would have been an unwelcome interruption.
At another time, when Miss Anthony was visiting them, she asked Mrs.
Greeley if she would marry the same man again if she were single.
"Yes," said she, "if I wanted a worthy father for my children, but for personal comfort I should prefer one who did not put his feet where I fell over them every time I went into the room, who knew how to eat, when to go to bed and how to wear his clothes." A World's Temperance Convention had been called to meet in New York September 6 and 7, 1853, and a preliminary meeting was held May 12 in Dr.Spring's old Brick Church on Franklin Square, where the Times building now stands.

The call invited "all friends of temperance" to be present.

After attending the Anti-Slavery Anniversary in New York, Miss Anthony and Emily Clark went as representatives of the New York Woman's Temperance Society, and Abby Kelly Foster and Lucy Stone were sent from Massachusetts.

The meeting was organized with Hon.

A.C.Barstow, mayor of Providence, chairman; Rev.R.C.Crampton, of New York, and Rev.
George Duffield, of Pennsylvania, secretaries.