uant, original and characteristic observations which
delighted the audience and gave a distinctive attraction to the
meetings. It was impossible to keep a record of these and they would
lose their zest and appropriateness if separated from the
circumstances which called them forth. They can not be transmitted to
future generations, but the thousands who heard them during the fifty
years of her itineracy will preserve them among their delightful
memories. Perfectly at home on the platform, she would indulge in the
same informality of remarks which others use in private conversation,
but always with a quick wit, a fine satire and a keen discrimination.
Words of praise or criticism were given with equal impartiality, and
accepted with a grace which would have been impossible had the giver
been any other than the recognized Mentor of them all. Her wonderful
power of reminiscence never failed, and she had always some personal
recollection of every speaker or of her parents or other relatives.
She kept the audience in continuous good-humor and furnished a variety
to the program of which the newspaper reporters joyfully availed
themselves. At the morning business meetings which were always
informal there would often be a running dialogue something like the
following, when Mrs. Alberta C. Taylor was called to the platform:

MISS ANTHONY: This is an Alabama girl, transplanted to the
Rockies--a daughter of Governor Chapman of Alabama. She is as
good a Southerner as any one, and also as good a Northerner and
Westerner.

MRS. TAYLOR: A Southern paper lately said no Southern woman
could read the report of the late election in Colorado without
blushing. I went through the election itself without blushing,
except with gratification.

MISS ANTHONY: Instead of degrading a woman it makes her feel
nobler not to be counted with idiots, lunatics and criminals. It
even changes the expression of her face.

VOICE IN THE AUDIENCE: How many women are there in the Colorado
Legislature?

MRS. TAYLOR: Three.

MISS ANTHONY: It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be
a scrub-woman in the Legislature and to take care of the
spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's
sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would
be degrading.

MISS LUCY E. ANTHONY: What salaries do the women legislators
rec