winter's
fight in behalf of woman suffrage. She seems remarkably well, and
has gained fifteen pounds since she left last spring. She is
sixty-three, but looks just the same as twenty years ago. There is
perhaps an extra wrinkle in her face, a little more silver in her
hair, but her blue eyes are just as bright, her mouth as serious
and her step as active as when she was forty. She would attract
attention in any crowd. She is of medium height and medium form but
her face is wonderfully intellectual, and she moves about like the
woman of a purpose that she is. She says she experiences far
different treatment by public men now from what she did years ago.
The statesman of the past always came to her with a smirk on his
face as though he considered woman's rights nonsensical and thought
himself wonderfully condescending to take notice of her at all.
"Now," says she, "public men look upon our mission as a matter of
business, and we are considered from that standpoint."

The interview closed:

"One question more, Miss Anthony. Will you please tell me what is
your highest ideal of the woman of the future?"

"It is hard to say," was the reply. "The woman of the future will
far surpass the one of the present, even as the man of the future
will surpass the one of today. The ages are progressive, and I look
for a far higher manhood and womanhood than we now have. I think
this will come through making the sexes co-equal. When women
associate with men in serious matters, as they do now in frivolous,
both will grow stronger and the world's work will be better done. I
look for the day when the woman who has a political or judicial
brain will have as much right to sit in the Senate or on the
Supreme Bench as men have; when women will have equal property,
business and political rights with men; when the only criterion of
excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the
individual; and this time will come. All of the Western colleges
are now open to women, and send forth more than 2,000 women
graduates every year. Think of the effect upon the race to come!
The woman of the future will be a better wife, mother and citizen
than the woman of today."

There were, however, some discordant notes in the symphony of pleasant
things which by 1883 had become c