r a trifling
difficulty with her voice, that she was not accustomed to speak
in public, at which a laugh went round.... Her silvery hair was
parted in the middle and brushed down over her ears. Her eyes
have the deep-set appearance which is characteristic of elderly
people who have been hard mental laborers, but on the whole she
did not look all her years, though older than most of her hearers
had expected to see her. But those beaming, earnest eyes, taking
in her whole audience as she talked, told of a nature tenacious
of purpose and not to be daunted by any obstacle--the qualities
which in her many years' work in the cause Miss Anthony has so
many times manifested.

The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw devoted the most of her report as
vice-president-at-large to the California campaign, as she had spent
the greater part of the past year in that State. She closed by saying:
"Our reception by the Californians was such as to make them forever
dear to us. I wish you could have seen Miss Anthony for once walking
ankle-deep in roses. It showed that the sentiment for suffrage had
reached the point where its advocates not only were tolerated but
honored. I used to like to see her sitting in a chair all adorned with
flowers and with a laurel crown suspended over her head, and to feel
that it was woman suffrage that was crowned. The work was hard, but we
all came back from California better in health and stronger in hope."

On Wednesday evening the crowd was so great it became necessary to
hold an overflow meeting, which was attended by five hundred persons.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was introduced as "one of Iowa's own
daughters," was received with great applause. She said in part:

I have a deep and tender love for Iowa. When I cross her
boundary, I always feel that I am coming home. In my travels
through the West I meet many men and women who give me a warmer
hand-shake because they too are from Iowa. But this State no
longer occupies the first place in my heart. There are four that
I love better, and every woman here feels the same. The first is
Wyoming. Many pass through that State and see only a barren plain
covered with sage brush, but when I cross her border, I feel a
thrill as sacred as ever the crusaders felt in visiting the Holy
Land. The second State is Colorado, the third Utah, and the
fourth Idaho. All of us I