N. Y. She was also an eloquent lecturer for both these reforms
and one of the first women to hold an office under the
Government, as deputy postmaster. The costume which bears her
name she did not originate, but wore and advocated for a number
of years.

Of the noble band that started in 1848, few now remain, but a
host of young women are already on the stage of action, even
better equipped than were our pioneers to plead their own cases
in the courts, the halls of legislation, the pulpit and the
press.

Two large receptions were given to the delegates and visitors, one at
the Hotel Aragon, and one by Mrs. W. A. Hemphill, chairman of the
Committee on the Professional Work of Women at the approaching Cotton
States Exposition soon to be held in Atlanta. She was assisted by Mrs.
W. Y. Atkinson, wife of the newly-elected Governor of Georgia.

During several weeks before the convention Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Chapman Catt had made a tour of the Southern States, speaking in the
principal cities to arouse suffrage sentiment, as this section was
practically an unvisited field. Immediately after the convention
closed a mass meeting was held in the court-house of Atlanta.
Afterwards Mrs. Blake was requested to address the Legislature of
North Carolina, Miss Anthony lectured in a number of cities on the way
northward, and others were invited to hold meetings in the neighboring
States. Most of the speakers and delegates met in Washington on
February 15 to celebrate Miss Anthony's seventy-fifth birthday and
participate in the triennial convention of the National Council of
Women.

FOOTNOTES:

[101] The three sisters, Claudia Howard Maxwell, Miriam Howard Du Bose
and H. Augusta Howard, who as delegates at Washington the previous
winter had invited the association to Atlanta, bore the principal part
of these expenses and were largely responsible for the success of the
convention.

[102] The facts and figures presented in the report from Kansas by the
president, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, will be found in the chapter on that
State.

[103] For an account of this beautiful celebration in the Metropolitan
Opera House with an audience of 3,000, see Life and Work of Susan B.
Anthony, p. 848; also Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

[104] For account of Mrs. Bradwell's case see History of Woman
Suffrage, Vol. II, p. 601; of Mrs. Minor's, same, p. 715.

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