as much ground as she desired.  While at home for a short time she had this underdrained and prepared, $100 worth of raspberry plants set out and staked; then went away and left the family to look after them.  The father was in the city all day attending to business, the sister Mary teaching school, the mother was not well and there was no one else but the hired man, who knew nothing about the culture of raspberries and was otherwise occupied; so the bushes took their chances.

The fame of the experiment, however, spread far and wide, the newspapers announced that Miss Anthony had bought a large farm and stocked it with raspberries; that she had abandoned the platform and taken up fruit culture.  She received scores of letters asking information as to the best plants and most successful methods, others begging her not to give up public work, and many from friends who had no end of fun at her expense.  The bushes grew and bore fruit enough to give the family a number of delicious meals.  Then a very cold winter followed and there was no one to care for the tender plants.  In December came a letter from the irrepressible brother-in-law, Aaron McLean:  “As to your raspberry ‘spec,’ I regret to tell you it has ’gone up.’  The poor, little, helpless things expired of a bad cold about two weeks since.  Do you remember that text of Scripture, which says, ’She who by the plow would thrive, herself must either hold or drive’?  It has cost you $200 to learn the truth of it.”  Her sister Mary wrote:  “I hope, Susan, when you get a husband and children, you will treat them better than you did your raspberry plants, and not leave them to their fate at the beginning of winter.”

It was a deep regret to Miss Anthony that she could not give the necessary time and care to make this experiment a success, as she was anxious to encourage women to go into the pursuit of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, anything which would take them out of doors.  In a letter to Mr. Higginson she says:  “The salvation of the race depends, in a great measure, upon rescuing women from their hothouse existence.  Whether in kitchen, nursery or parlor, all alike are shut away from God’s sunshine.  Why did not your Caroline Plummer, of Salem, why do not all of our wealthy women leave money for industrial and agricultural schools for girls, instead of ever and always providing for boys alone?” This is one of the many instances where Miss Anthony foreshadowed reforms and improvements which have been fulfilled in the present generation.

In 1858 is presented same routine of unremitting work which characterized so many previous years.  The winter was given up to anti-slavery meetings with their attendant hardships.  Miss Anthony has great scorn for those who talk regretfully of the “good old days.”  She thinks one lecture season under the conditions which then existed would be an effectual cure to any longing for them one might have.  The conveniences of modern life, bathrooms with plenty