those two rooms--the gift of her suffrage friends. I am also
commissioned to present her with an album. Some of our naughty
officers have been making fun of it and saying that albums are
all out of date; but this one contains the photographs of all the
presidents of the State Suffrage Associations, and the chairmen
of standing committees. No collection of "antis" could be found
that would present in their faces as much intelligence and
strength of character.

Miss Anthony expressed her thanks, and said: "These girls have
disproved the old saying that a secret can not be kept by a woman, for
I have not heard a word of a rug or a picture."

From the Utah Silk Commission composed of women came a handsome black
brocaded dress pattern, the work of women, from the tending of the
cocoons to the weaving of the silk. A beautiful solid silver vase was
presented from "the free women of Idaho." There was also from this
State an album of two hundred pages of pen drawings, water colors and
pressed flowers, with a sentiment on each page, the contributions of
as many individuals. California sent more than one hundred dollars.
From every State came gifts of money, silver-plate, fine china, sofa
cushions, books, pictures, exquisite jewelry, lace, chatelaine bags
and every token which loving hearts could devise. To each Miss Anthony
responded with a terse sentence or two, half tender, half humorous;
the audience entered fully into the spirit of it all, and the
convention was like a big family enjoying the birthday of one of its
members.

Of the last session on February 14, the Washington _Post_ said:

A vast audience consisting of both men and women witnessed at the
Church of Our Father, last evening, the passing of Susan B.
Anthony as president of the National Suffrage Association. It was
the final evening session of the Thirty-second annual convention,
which, Miss Anthony announced at its close, had been the most
successful from every point of view of any ever held.

Long before the opening hour arrived the church was completely
filled, and people stood eight and ten deep in the aisles, sat
around the edge of the speakers' platform and filled the
approaches to the church. Miss Anthony and many of the other
speakers, who arrived at eight o'clock, had great difficulty in
reaching the platform.

John C. Bell, member of Congress from Col