All through the Schroon Lake country the snow was over the fences and the weather bitterly cold.  At Plattsburg, Miss Anthony was a guest at Judge Watson’s.  Before leaving Rochester she had had a pair of high boots made to protect her from the deep snows, which were so much heavier than she was accustomed to that they almost ruined her feet.  She was at that time an ardent convert to the “water cure” theories and, after suffering tortures from one foot especially, she came home from the afternoon meeting, put it under the “penstock” in the kitchen and let the cold water run over it till it was perfectly numb, then Crapped it up in flannels.  That evening it did not hurt her a particle, and concluding that what was good for one foot must be good for two, she put both under the “penstock” till they were almost congealed.  In the morning she scarcely could get out of bed, all the pain having settled in her back, but in spite of protests from the family she resumed her journey.  All the way to Malone, she had to hold fast to the seat in front of her to relieve as much as possible the motion of the cars.  She managed to conduct her afternoon and evening meetings, and then went on to Ogdensburg, where she stopped with a cousin.  The next morning she hardly could move and the women of the family had to help her make her toilet.  Nothing they could say would persuade her to remain; she was advertised to speak at Canton and proposed to do it if she were alive, so she was carried out, put into a sleigh and driven seventeen miles actually doubled up with her head on her knees.  She finished the two meetings and then resolved on heroic measures.  Arising at 4 A.M. she rode in a stage to within ten miles of Watertown, took the cars to that city and went to a hotel.  Here she ordered the chambermaid to bring several buckets of ice water into her room and, sitting down in a tub, she had them poured on her back, then wrapping up in hot blankets went to bed.  The next morning she was apparently well and held her meetings.

At Auburn, Mrs. Stanton came over from Seneca Falls to assist and they were entertained by Martha C. Wright.  As a usual thing Miss Anthony stopped at a hotel but after the first session some one in her audience would be so pleased with her that she was sure to be invited into a comfortable home for the rest of her stay.  One cold spring day she was to speak at Riverhead, L.I.  Reaching the courthouse, at 1 o’clock, she found it swept and garnished and a good fire but not a person in sight except the janitor; so she sat down and waited and finally one man after another dropped in, until there were perhaps a dozen.  Not at all discouraged, she began her speech.  Presently the door opened a little and she saw a woman’s bonnet peep in but it was quickly withdrawn.  This was repeated a number of times but not one ventured in.  Whether each woman saw her own husband and was afraid to enter, or whether she did not dare face the other women’s husbands, there was not one in the audience.  The men heard her through, bought her tracts and signed the petition.  Having decided there was nothing dangerous about her, they came back in the evening, bringing their wives and neighbors.