Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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CONTENTS 636' INTRODUCTORY THE THEME THE SCHOOL THE YEAR ADVERTISEMENTS

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It had been started as a roject to further the temperance movement, but Mrs. Bloomer wrote hersel and accepted from Mrs. Stanton numerous editor- ials explaining and electioneering for the cause of woman's rights. This paper attracted wide-spread attention and was instrumental in interesting Miss Susan B. Anthony in the movement. I Miss Susan B. Anthony came to Seneca Falls in 1850 to attend an anti-slavery convention and was a guest of Mrs. Bloomer. The two ladies were return- ing from one of the meetings when they stopped on a street corner to wait for Mrs. Stanton. It was here that Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony were intro- duced. Afterward, they met at Mrs. Stanton's home, and the path was opened for future intercourse. It was, as Mrs. Stanton says in her history, an eventful meeting that later shaped in a measure their future lives. Neither Mrs. Stanton or Miss Anthony could have accomcplished such great things without the Mgssgum Bamhony help and a vice of the other. Miss Anthony in- '1'P'ff f1'M fG- 14- Wffwfb fluenced Mrs. Stanton to go abroad into active life, and, without this encouragement, it is highly improbable that Mrs. Stanton would have attempted such an extensive movement. On the other hand, Mrs. Stanton's complete knowledge of the subject made her invaluable to Miss Anthony. They worked together in perfect unison helping and strengthening each other in accomplishing great things for women and humanity. Many of the greatest movements in the annals of this country have had their beginnings in small towns, and Seneca Falls has contributed no mean share to the advancement of our state and nation in giving those determined leaders to the country. Their dauntless spirit has Carried women from a con- dition of servitude to a place equally respected with that of men. Seneca Falls will be forever proud and grateful to these workers for their contributions to the advancement of the station of womankind. What of the future? It has been said that emanci- pation without duty is a mirage of pleasure which raises thirst but never quenches it. Every woman of today is a leader in this action and must bend every effort to preserve the place which these women of yesterday have obtained. Will women respond to the call that comes to them out of the past with its limitations and the present with its onrushing of events? The future holds the answer to that query which must be in the affirmative if the march of Time for the women of the world is to lead them to achieve the heights these women we honor envisaged. Mrs, Amelia Bloomer

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