unate
condition, as it sometimes became necessary to do this. Miss Anthony
was subject to contractions of the throat, which for the moment caused
a slight strangulation. On such occasions--of which there were
several--she would turn to me and indicate her helplessness. Then I
would repeat her last sentence, complete her speech, and afterward make
my own.

The first time this happened we were in Washington, and "Aunt Susan"
stopped in the middle of a word. She could not speak; she merely
motioned to me to continue for her, and left the stage. At the end of
the evening a prominent Washington man who had been in our audience
remarked to me, confidentially:

"That was a nice little play you and Miss Anthony made to-night--very
effective indeed."

For an instant I did not catch his meaning, nor the implication in his
knowing smile.

"Very clever, that strangling bit, and your going on with the speech,"
he repeated. "It hit the audience hard."

"Surely," I protested, "you don't think it was a deliberate thing--that
we planned or rehearsed it."

He stared at me incredulously. "Are you going to pretend," he demanded,
"that it wasn't a put-up job?"

I told him he had paid us a high compliment, and that we must really
have done very well if we had conveyed that impression; and I finally
convinced him that we not only had not rehearsed the episode, but that
neither of us had known what the other meant to say. We never wrote out
our speeches, but our subject was always suffrage or some ramification
of suffrage, and, naturally, we had thoroughly digested each other's
views.

It is said by my friends that I write my speeches on the tips of my
fingers--for I always make my points on my fingers and have my fingers
named for points. When I plan a speech I decide how many points I wish
to make and what those points shall be. My mental preparation follows.
Miss Anthony's method was much the same; but very frequently both of us
threw over all our plans at the last moment and spoke extemporaneously
on some theme suggested by the atmosphere of the gathering or by the
words of another speaker.

From Miss Anthony, more than from any one else, I learned to keep cool
in the face of interruptions and of the small annoyances and disasters
inevitable in campaigning. Often we were able to help each other out of
embarrassing situations, and one incident of this kind occurred during
our campaign in South Dakota. We were holding a meeting