Most of the towns never had been visited by a woman speaker, and wagon-loads of people would come from miles around to see the novelty.

The audiences were cold but respectful and, as a rule, she was treated decently by the county papers.

Occasionally a smart editor would get off the joke about her relationship to Mark Antony, which even then had become threadbare, and invariably the articles would begin, "While we do not agree with the theories which the lady advocates." Most of them, however, paid high tribute to her ability as a speaker and to the clearness, logic and force of her arguments.

A quotation from the Rondout Courier will illustrate: At the appointed hour a lady, unattended and unheralded, quietly glided in and ascended the platform.

She was as easy and self-possessed as a lady should always be when performing a plain duty, even under 600 curious eyes.