The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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People - Masterpieces of Art - Experiences in Paris -The Politeness of Parisians - A Veneer of Custom,..... 542
CHAPTER XXXIII.
FACE TO FACE WITH OUR ENGLISH COUSINS -EMINENT
PEOPLE WHOM I MET - TURNING OUR FACES HOMEWARD.
Our English Civilization - London the great World Center - Its Gay and
Courtly Life - A Storehouse of Universal Knowledge - Effects of Unequal Distribution of Wealth - Given to Excessive Drinking - English
Social Life - An Embarrassing Situation - The Early Friend of George
Eliot -The Minister of Finsbury Place Chapel - "I hope the Men of
America will emigrate where Women will be kept in their Places" -
The Coffee House System of England - "Free and Easies "- Miss
Martineau's Scrupulous Cleanliness - Treating a Cow like a Lady -
Giving her Pig a Bath - A Long Struggle - Turning our Faces Homeward,........... 555
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE CRUSADE-UNCOMPROMISING
HOSTILITY TO THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC-EMINENT MEN
AND WOMEN OF MY ACQUAINTANCE.
The Women's Crusade--It spreads like Prairie Fire--Women invade
Saloons - Transforming Saloons into Prayer Meetings - Where the
Women crusaded--"God is leading us, and we shall wait for Him
to show the way" - Dawn of a new Day to Women - The Woman
Suffrage Question the largest now before the Public-Reasons why
the Reform should win--Anticipation of Ostracism and Derision
not realized--Eminent Men and Women of my Acquaintance -A
Company of Glorious Women and Noble Men--My Husband's
never-failing Good-will and efficient Assistance--More indebted to
him than to all others--My Lover, Friend, and Helpmate,. 578
CHAPTER XXXV.
OCCUPATIONS OPEN TO WOMEN-- OUR "GOLDEN WEDDING"
--ONE OF THE PLEASANTEST EVENTS OF MY LIFE.
Occupations Open to Women--One Hundred and Fifty Women Ministers- Women Lawyers Admitted to the Bar--Colleges, Universities, Professional and Technical 'Schools now Admit Women--