gressive, self-respecting
nation ought to show with pride.... There in the peaceful little
House in the Wood national disputes are settled, not by
sacrificing the lives of thousands of innocent, helpless young
men, not by creating thousands of widows and orphans, but by
threshing out all matters relating to the dispute in a rational,
calm, judicial and honorable way.... It seemed to me that this
20th century battleground, this quiet, peaceful House in the
Wood, augured well for a new era, one in which our swords will
indeed be turned into ploughshares and our spears into pruning
hooks, and the angels of peace and righteousness will hover over
us.

The social features of the convention were of an unusually interesting
character. The Garrett family mansion had been closed for the winter
but Miss Garrett opened it completely, invited as home guests Miss
Anthony, Mrs. Howe, Miss Addams, Dr. Thomas and other distinguished
visitors and gave a series of entertainments that conferred on the
convention a prestige which added much to its influence in that
conservative city. In order that its representative men and women
might meet the officers and delegates Miss Garrett had a luncheon and
dinner every day, the formal invitations reading: "To meet Miss Susan
B. Anthony and Governor and Mrs. Warfield"; "To meet Miss Anthony and
the speakers of the College Evening," etc.,--on each invitation Miss
Anthony's name preceding those of the other guests of honor. All of
the speakers on the College Women's evening were her house guests and
after the meeting she gave a large reception. To quote again from the
Biography: "No one present will ever forget the picture of Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Howe sitting side by side on a divan in the large bay
window, with a background of ferns and flowers. At their right stood
Miss Garrett and Dr. Thomas, at their left Dr. Shaw and the line of
eminent college women, with a beautiful perspective of conservatory
and art gallery.... There was nothing in the closing years of Miss
Anthony's life that offered such encouragement and hope as to see
women possessing the power of high intellectual ability, wealth and
social position taking up the cause which she had carried with patient
toil through poverty and obscurity to this plane of recognition."

While Miss Anthony was a guest in the home of Miss Garrett she and Dr.
Thomas asked her what was the greatest se