ion was composed of clever, sensible and attractive women,
splendidly representative of their sex and of the present time."

After complimentary notices of the leading members, it continued:
"'One very pleasant thing connected with our business committee is the
beautiful relations existing among its members,' said one of the
officers the other evening. 'We all have our opinions and they often
differ, but we are absolutely true to each other and to the cause. We
are most of us married, and all of us have the co-operation of our
husbands and fathers. Of the business committee of nine, six are
married. For the past two years we have had one man on our board, the
Hon. Wm. Dudley Foulke, but as a rule men have not the time and
thought to give this subject, as they are engaged in more remunerative
employment.' The self-control and good-nature prevailing even in the
heated debate on the religious liberty interference resolution have
already been alluded to in our columns."

Miss Susan B. Anthony presided over the convention, Jan. 16-19, 1893,
held in Metzerott's Music Hall and preceded by the usual religious
services Sunday afternoon. The sermon was given by the Rev. Annis F.
Eastman (N. Y.), an ordained Congregational minister, from the text in
Isaiah, "Take away the yoke."

The memorial service, which was of unusual impressiveness, opened with
the reading by Miss Anthony of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's tribute
to the distinguished dead of the past year who advocated equality of
rights for women--George William Curtis, John Greenleaf Whittier,
Ernestine L. Rose, Abby Hutchinson Patton and others.[88] Of Mr.
Curtis she said:

If the success of our cause could be assured by the high
character of the men who from the beginning have identified
themselves with it, woman would have been emancipated long ago. A
reform advocated by Garrison, Phillips, Emerson, Alcott, Theodore
Parker, Gerrit Smith, Samuel J. May and George William Curtis
must be worthy the consideration of statesmen and bishops.

For more than one generation Mr. Curtis maintained a brave
attitude on this question. As editor of _Harper's Magazine_, and
as a popular lecturer on the lyceum platform, he was ever true to
his convictions. Before the war his lecture on Fair Play for
Women aroused much thought among the literary and fashionable
classes. In the New York Constitutional Convention in 1867, a