we had ester morris who was the first woman justice of the peace out of south pass city. we had nellie tayloe ross, first woman governor in the world. all of these were the cavalcade fallout from the beautiful suffrage act of december 10th of 1869. here we just have a few more mentions of our women who were important. and here we have a great thing. her friends were so worried she's out in the west caught in this suffrage act idiocy. and she writes about it. she says oh, yes, some of my friends are eastern girls who judge women's suffrage by the english suffragettes reports and think that any woman who votes must be dreadful while a woman who holds office must be beyond hope. i told them about a friend of mine who had recently bine elected to a county office and assured them that she was as nice and modest and womanly as any of them and probably much shier. they had to take my word for it but they assured me that you couldn't possibly stay so. you would undoubtedly become bold and mannish in a very short time. and when we leave this hallway we're going to go out into the