National Council of the United States is made up of about twenty
societies with an aggregate membership of over a million women.
It was only allowed two delegates besides its president, and it
is not a suffrage association, yet it honored two women who have
been known for some years as suffragists, Miss Anthony and
myself, by making us its delegates to London. They said they did
this because they wanted women who did not represent anything too
radical!

That Congress was the greatest assemblage of women from all parts
of the world that ever had taken place, and therefore the biggest
suffrage convention ever held. Suffrage seemed to take possession
of the whole meeting, as it does at every great gathering of
women. From this point of view it was a decided and emphatic
success. The largest meeting of all was the one held by the
Suffrage Association and every suffrage heart would have swollen
so large it could hardly have been kept within the bounds of the
body if it had heard the applause with which Miss Anthony was
greeted. She could not speak for ten minutes....

In England I entered upon a role I had never filled before, or
had any ambition for--I "entered society," and for ten days I was
in it from before breakfast till after midnight; and I prayed the
prayer of the Pharisee--I thanked the Lord that I was not as
other women are who have to go into society all the time. I had
thought that traveling up and down the country with gripsack in
hand was hard enough; but it is child's play to hand-shaking and
hob-nobbing with duchesses and countesses. However, the
experience was good for us, and it was especially good for those
American women who had thought that they knew more than other
women till they met them and found that they didn't.

I came home, spent three days there, and then took my grip in
hand and started out again lecturing--mostly for the Redpath
bureau, and for people who did not want to hear about suffrage;
so I spoke on "The Fate of Republics," "The American Home," "The
New Man," etc. Under these titles I gave them stronger doses of
suffrage than I ever do to you here, and they received it with
great enthusiasm, because it was not called suffrage. I spoke the
other day in Cincinnati to about 3,000 people and they were
d