Because of the vitality of the paper through the barren pioneer days, through the days of ridicule and up into these times of great numbers, splendid prestige and backing for the whole movement, we have faith that our hopes are not in vain.

[Illustration:  Mrs. David Hunt A Generous Supporter of the Woman’s Journal]

One proof of our faith is that we find working in the Woman’s Journal office year after year is in some ways like living in a fairy story.  We never know what is going to happen next.  The day after election—­and defeat in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey—­a woman came to the Journal office bearing a check for $1,000 in her hand and saying in substance, “Here is a small check to cheer Miss Blackwell and the Journal in the face of yesterday’s defeats at the polls.”  She asked not to have her name used.  Hers is an example of the way suffragists feel toward the Woman’s Journal.  To them it symbolizes the cause.

FORM OF BEQUEST

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I hereby give and bequeath to the Proprietors of
The Woman’s Journal,
published in Boston, a corporation established under the laws of
Massachusetts,
the sum of ——­ dollars.
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=Early Stockholders of the Woman’s Journal=

NATHANIEL WHITE Concord, N.H.
MRS. ARMENIA WHITE Concord, N.H.
MRS. HARRIET M. PITMAN Somereville, Mass.
JULIA WARD HOWE Boston, Mass.
SAMUEL E. SEWALL Melrose, Mass.
E.D.  DRAPER Boston, Mass.
MRS. ANNA C. LODGE Boston, Mass.
MRS. ELIZABETH B. CHACE Valley Falls, R.I.
MRS. LILLIE B. CHACE Valley Falls, R.I.
T.W.  HIGGINSON Newport, R.I.
SARAH W. GRIMKE Hyde Park, Mass.
MRS. ANGELINA G. WELD Hyde Park, Mass.
MRS. SUSIE CRANE VOGL Hyde Park, Mass.
MRS. MARY HEMINWAY Boston, Mass.
WILLIAM B. STONE W.  Brookfield, Mass.
REBECCA BOWKER No address.
JOHN GAGE Vineland, N.J.
MRS. PORTIA GAGE Vineland, N.J.
ALFRED H. BATCHELOUR Boston, Mass.
CHARLOTTE A. JOY Mendon, Mass.
SAMUEL MAY Boston, Mass.
ALFRED WYMAN Worcester, Mass.
CHARLES DWIGHT Boston, Mass.
ISAAC AMES Hacerhill, Mass.
HENRY MAYO Boston, Mass.
AUGUSTA DAGGETT Boston, Mass.
GEORGE B. LORINE Salem, Mass.
CHARLES RICHARDSON Address unknown.
A.P.  WARD Worcester, Mass.
STEPHEN S. FOSTER Worcester, Mass.
A.S.  HASKELL Chelsea, Mass.
SARAH G. WILKINSON Salem, Mass.
LUCY STONE Boston, Mass.