CHAPTER XIII.

REFORMS AND MOBS. There was one bright woman among the many in our Seneca Falls literary circle to whom I would give more than a passing notice--Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who represented three novel phases of woman's life. She was assistant postmistress; an editor of a reform paper advocating temperance and woman's rights; and an advocate of the new costume which bore her name! In 1849 her husband was appointed postmaster, and she became his deputy, was duly sworn in, and, during the administration of Taylor and Fillmor…