y ardent Populist, but they were perfectly agreed in their
devotion to the woman suffrage amendment and in their desire
that help should be given to the Kansas campaign. Both are small
women of gentle and feminine aspect, though known as mighty
workers; and when Mrs. Diggs, a soft-voiced, bright-eyed morsel
of humanity, said in presenting the needs of the Kansas Equal
Suffrage Association, "Mrs. Johns is our president, and I am
vice-president; she is the gentle officer, I am the savage one;
my business is to frighten people"--the audience roared with
laughter. The New York women generously declared that they would
carry the financial burden of their own campaign and would ask no
outside help except in speakers and sympathy. This left the field
clear for Kansas and more than $2,200 were raised at one session
towards the expenses of the campaign....

The two delegates from Colorado, Mrs. Ellis Meredith and Mrs.
Hattie E. Fox, were the objects of much interest and of hearty
congratulations. They seemed very happy over their recent
enfranchisement, as they well might be. Mrs. Meredith, who is
very small, looked up brightly at a tall Maryland lady, who was
congratulating her, and said, "I feel as tall as you." These two
ladies looked just like other women and had developed no horns or
hoofs or other unamiable and unfeminine characteristics in
consequence of their having obtained the right to vote.... The
Southern women have distinguished themselves in the national
suffrage conventions during the last few years. This year, on
"presidents' evening," among a number of brilliant addresses that
of Mrs. Virginia D. Young of South Carolina fairly brought down
the house....

A beautiful silk flag, bearing the two suffrage stars, was
presented to Miss Anthony in honor of her seventy-fourth
birthday, on the first evening of the convention, a gift from the
enfranchised women of Wyoming and Colorado. One of these women
had been called upon to act as a judge of elections and had
received three dollars for her services. She spent two dollars on
shoes for her little boy and sent the third dollar as her
contribution toward the suffrage flag.

It was a pleasure to see the gathering of the clans--so many good
and able and interesting women assembled together