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day. One morning she said abruptly, ``Anna, let's
go and call on President M. Carey Thomas, of
Bryn Mawr.''
I wrote a note to Miss Thomas, telling her of Miss
Anthony's desire to see her, and received an im-
mediate reply inviting us to luncheon the following
day. We found Miss Thomas deep in the work
connected with her new college buildings, over which
she showed us with much pride. Miss Anthony, of
course, gloried in the splendid results Miss Thomas
had achieved, but she was, for her, strangely silent
and preoccupied. At luncheon she said:
``Miss Thomas, your buildings are beautiful;
your new library is a marvel; but they are not the
cause of our presence here.''
``No,'' Miss Thomas said; ``I know you have
something on your mind. I am waiting for you to
tell me what it is.''
``We want your co-operation, and that of Miss
Garrett,'' began Miss Anthony, promptly, ``to make
our Baltimore Convention a success. We want you
to persuade the Arundel Club of Baltimore, the
most fashionable club in the city, to give a recep-
tion to the delegates; and we want you to arrange
a college night on the programme--a great college
night, with the best college speakers ever brought
together.''
These were large commissions for two extremely
busy women, but both Miss Thomas and Miss
Garrett--realizing Miss Anthony's intense earnest-
ness--promised to think over the suggestions and
see what they could do. The next morning we re-
ceived a telegram from them stating that Miss
Thomas would arrange the college evening, and that
Miss Garrett would reopen her Baltimore home,
which she had closed, during the convention. She
also invited Miss Anthony and me to be her guests
there, and added that she would try to arrange the
reception by the Arundel Club.
``Aunt Susan'' was overjoyed. I have never seen
her happier than she was over the receipt of that
telegram. She knew that whatever Miss Thomas
and Miss Garrett undertook would be accomplished,
and she rightly regarded the success of the conven-
tion as already assured. Her expectations were
more than realized. The college evening was un-
doubtedly the most brilliant occasion of its kind
ever arranged for a convention. President Ira
Remsen of Johns Hopkins University presided, and
addresses were made by President Mary E. Woolley
of Mount Holyoke, Professor Lucy Salmon of Vassar,
Professor Mary Jordan of Smith, President Thomas
herself, and many others.
From beginning to end the convention was prob-
ably the most notable yet held in our history.
Julia Ward Howe and her daughter, Florence Howe
Hall, were also guests of Miss Garrett, who, more-
over, entertained all the speakers of ``College Night.''
Miss Anthony, now eighty-six, arrived in Baltimore
quite ill, and Mrs. Howe, who was ninety, was taken
ill soon after she reached there. The two great
women made a dramatic exchange on the programme,
for on the first night, when Miss Anthony was un-
able to speak, Mrs. Howe took her place, and on the
second night, when Mrs. Howe had succumbed,
Miss Anthony had recovered sufficiently to appear
for her. Clara Barton was also an honored figure
at the convention, and Miss Anthony's joy in the
presence of all these old and dear friends was over-
flowing. With them, too, were the younger women,
ready to take up and carry on the work the old
leaders were laying down; and ``Aunt Susan,'' as
she surveyed them all, felt like a general whose
superb army is passing in review before him.
At the close of the college programme, when the
final address had been made by Miss Thomas, Miss
Anthony rose and in a few words expressed her
feeling that her life-work was done, and her con-
sciousness of the near approach of the end. After
that night she was unable to appear, and was indeed
so ill that she was confined to her bed in Miss Gar-
rett's most hospitable home. Nothing could have
been more thoughtful or more beautiful than the
care Miss Garrett and Miss Thomas bestowed on her.
They engaged for her one of the best physicians in
Baltimore, who, in turn, consulted with the leading
specialists of Johns Hopkins, and they also secured
a trained nurse. This final attention required
special tact, for Miss Anthony's fear of ``giving
trouble'' was so great that she was not willing to
have a nurse. The nurse, therefore, wore a house-
maid's uniform, and ``Aunt Susan'' remained wholly
unconscious that she was being cared for by one of
the best nurses in the famous hospital.
Between sessions of the convention I used to
sit by ``Aunt Susan's'' bed and tell her what was
going on. She was triumphant over the immense
success of the convention, but it was clear that
she was still worrying over the details of future
work. One day at luncheon Miss Thomas asked
me, casually:
``By the way, how do you raise the money to
carry on your work?''
When I told her the work was wholly dependent
on voluntary contributions and on the services of
those who were willing to give themselves gratui-
tously to it, Miss Thomas was greatly surprised.
She and Miss Garrett asked a number of practical
questions, and at the end of our talk they looked at
each other.
``I don't think,'' said Miss Thomas, ``that we have
quite done our duty in this matter.''
The next day they invited a number of us to
dinner, to again discuss the situation; and they
admitted that they had sat up throughout the
previous night, talking the matter over and trying
to find some way to help us. They had also dis-
cussed the situation with Miss Anthony, to her vast
content, and had finally decided that they would
try to raise a fund of $60,000, to be paid in yearly
instalments of $12,000 for five years--part of these
annual instalments to be used as salaries for the
active officers.
The mere mention of so large a fund startled us
all. We feared that it could not possibly be raised.
But Miss Anthony plainly believed that now the
last great wish of her life had been granted. She
was convinced that Miss Thomas and Miss Gar-
rett could accomplish anything--even the miracle
of raising $60,000 for the suffrage cause--and they
did, though ``Aunt Susan'' was not here to glory
over the result when they had achieved it.
On the 15th of February we left Baltimore for
Washington, where Miss Anthony was to cele-
brate her eighty-sixth birthday. For many years
the National American Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion had celebrated our birthdays together, as hers
came on the 15th of the month and mine on the
14th. There had been an especially festivebanquet
when she was seventy-four and I was forty-seven,
and our friends had decorated the table with floral
``4's'' and ``7's''--the centerpiece representing ``74''
during the first half of the banquet, and ``47'' the
latter half. This time ``Aunt Susan'' should not
have attempted the Washington celebration, for she
was still ill and exhausted by the strain of the con-
vention. But standing" target="_blank" title="prep.&conj.虽然；还是">notwithstanding her sufferings and
the warnings of her physicians, she insisted on being
present; so Miss Garrett sent the trained nurse to
Washington with her, and we all tried to make the jour-
ney the least possible strain on the patient's vitality.
On our arrival in Washington we went to the
Shoreham, where, as always, the proprietor took pains
to give Miss Anthony a room with a view of the
Washington monument, which she greatly admired.
When I entered her room a little later I found her
standing at a window, holding herself up with hands
braced against the casement on either side, and so
absorbed in the view that she did not hear my ap-
proach. When I spoke to her she answered with-
out turning her head.
``That,'' she said, softly, ``is the most beautiful
monument in the world.''
I stood by her side, and together we looked at it
in silence I realizing with a sick heart that ``Aunt
Susan'' knew she was seeing it for the last time.
The birthday celebration that followed our exec-
utive meeting was an impressive one. It was held
in the Church of Our Father, whose pastor, the Rev.
John Van Schaick, had always been exceedingly kind
to Miss Anthony. Many prominent men spoke.
President Roosevelt and other statesmen sent most
friendly letters, and William H. Taft had promised to
be present. He did not come, nor did he, then or
later, send any excuse for not coming--an omission
that greatly disappointed Miss Anthony, who had
always admired him. I presided at the meeting,
and though we all did our best to make it gay, a
strange hush hung over the assemblage a solemn
stillness, such as one feels in the presence of death.
We became more and more conscious that Miss
Anthony was suffering, and we hastened the exer-
cises all we could. When I read President Roose-
velt's long tribute to her, Miss Anthony rose to
comment on it.
``One word from President Roosevelt in his mes-
sage to Congress,'' she said, a little wearily, ``would
be worth a thousand eulogies of Susan B. Anthony.
When will men learn that what we ask is not praise,
but justice?''
At the close of the meeting, realizing how weak
she was, I begged her to let me speak for her. But
she again rose, rested her hand on my shoulder,
and, standing by my side, uttered the last words
she ever spoke in public, pleading with women to
consecrate themselves to the Cause, assuring them
that no power could prevent its ultimate success,
but reminding them also that the time of its coming
would depend wholly on their work and their loyalty.
She ended with three words--very fitting words
from her lips, expressing as they did the spirit of her
go and call on President M. Carey Thomas, of
Bryn Mawr.''
I wrote a note to Miss Thomas, telling her of Miss
Anthony's desire to see her, and received an im-
mediate reply inviting us to luncheon the following
day. We found Miss Thomas deep in the work
connected with her new college buildings, over which
she showed us with much pride. Miss Anthony, of
course, gloried in the splendid results Miss Thomas
had achieved, but she was, for her, strangely silent
and preoccupied. At luncheon she said:
``Miss Thomas, your buildings are beautiful;
your new library is a marvel; but they are not the
cause of our presence here.''
``No,'' Miss Thomas said; ``I know you have
something on your mind. I am waiting for you to
tell me what it is.''
``We want your co-operation, and that of Miss
Garrett,'' began Miss Anthony, promptly, ``to make
our Baltimore Convention a success. We want you
to persuade the Arundel Club of Baltimore, the
most fashionable club in the city, to give a recep-
tion to the delegates; and we want you to arrange
a college night on the programme--a great college
night, with the best college speakers ever brought
together.''
These were large commissions for two extremely
busy women, but both Miss Thomas and Miss
Garrett--realizing Miss Anthony's intense earnest-
ness--promised to think over the suggestions and
see what they could do. The next morning we re-
ceived a telegram from them stating that Miss
Thomas would arrange the college evening, and that
Miss Garrett would reopen her Baltimore home,
which she had closed, during the convention. She
also invited Miss Anthony and me to be her guests
there, and added that she would try to arrange the
reception by the Arundel Club.
``Aunt Susan'' was overjoyed. I have never seen
her happier than she was over the receipt of that
telegram. She knew that whatever Miss Thomas
and Miss Garrett undertook would be accomplished,
and she rightly regarded the success of the conven-
tion as already assured. Her expectations were
more than realized. The college evening was un-
doubtedly the most brilliant occasion of its kind
ever arranged for a convention. President Ira
Remsen of Johns Hopkins University presided, and
addresses were made by President Mary E. Woolley
of Mount Holyoke, Professor Lucy Salmon of Vassar,
Professor Mary Jordan of Smith, President Thomas
herself, and many others.
From beginning to end the convention was prob-
ably the most notable yet held in our history.
Julia Ward Howe and her daughter, Florence Howe
Hall, were also guests of Miss Garrett, who, more-
over, entertained all the speakers of ``College Night.''
Miss Anthony, now eighty-six, arrived in Baltimore
quite ill, and Mrs. Howe, who was ninety, was taken
ill soon after she reached there. The two great
women made a dramatic exchange on the programme,
for on the first night, when Miss Anthony was un-
able to speak, Mrs. Howe took her place, and on the
second night, when Mrs. Howe had succumbed,
Miss Anthony had recovered sufficiently to appear
for her. Clara Barton was also an honored figure
at the convention, and Miss Anthony's joy in the
presence of all these old and dear friends was over-
flowing. With them, too, were the younger women,
ready to take up and carry on the work the old
leaders were laying down; and ``Aunt Susan,'' as
she surveyed them all, felt like a general whose
superb army is passing in review before him.
At the close of the college programme, when the
final address had been made by Miss Thomas, Miss
Anthony rose and in a few words expressed her
feeling that her life-work was done, and her con-
sciousness of the near approach of the end. After
that night she was unable to appear, and was indeed
so ill that she was confined to her bed in Miss Gar-
rett's most hospitable home. Nothing could have
been more thoughtful or more beautiful than the
care Miss Garrett and Miss Thomas bestowed on her.
They engaged for her one of the best physicians in
Baltimore, who, in turn, consulted with the leading
specialists of Johns Hopkins, and they also secured
a trained nurse. This final attention required
special tact, for Miss Anthony's fear of ``giving
trouble'' was so great that she was not willing to
have a nurse. The nurse, therefore, wore a house-
maid's uniform, and ``Aunt Susan'' remained wholly
unconscious that she was being cared for by one of
the best nurses in the famous hospital.
Between sessions of the convention I used to
sit by ``Aunt Susan's'' bed and tell her what was
going on. She was triumphant over the immense
success of the convention, but it was clear that
she was still worrying over the details of future
work. One day at luncheon Miss Thomas asked
me, casually:
``By the way, how do you raise the money to
carry on your work?''
When I told her the work was wholly dependent
on voluntary contributions and on the services of
those who were willing to give themselves gratui-
tously to it, Miss Thomas was greatly surprised.
She and Miss Garrett asked a number of practical
questions, and at the end of our talk they looked at
each other.
``I don't think,'' said Miss Thomas, ``that we have
quite done our duty in this matter.''
The next day they invited a number of us to
dinner, to again discuss the situation; and they
admitted that they had sat up throughout the
previous night, talking the matter over and trying
to find some way to help us. They had also dis-
cussed the situation with Miss Anthony, to her vast
content, and had finally decided that they would
try to raise a fund of $60,000, to be paid in yearly
instalments of $12,000 for five years--part of these
annual instalments to be used as salaries for the
active officers.
The mere mention of so large a fund startled us
all. We feared that it could not possibly be raised.
But Miss Anthony plainly believed that now the
last great wish of her life had been granted. She
was convinced that Miss Thomas and Miss Gar-
rett could accomplish anything--even the miracle
of raising $60,000 for the suffrage cause--and they
did, though ``Aunt Susan'' was not here to glory
over the result when they had achieved it.
On the 15th of February we left Baltimore for
Washington, where Miss Anthony was to cele-
brate her eighty-sixth birthday. For many years
the National American Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion had celebrated our birthdays together, as hers
came on the 15th of the month and mine on the
14th. There had been an especially festivebanquet
when she was seventy-four and I was forty-seven,
and our friends had decorated the table with floral
``4's'' and ``7's''--the centerpiece representing ``74''
during the first half of the banquet, and ``47'' the
latter half. This time ``Aunt Susan'' should not
have attempted the Washington celebration, for she
was still ill and exhausted by the strain of the con-
vention. But standing" target="_blank" title="prep.&conj.虽然；还是">notwithstanding her sufferings and
the warnings of her physicians, she insisted on being
present; so Miss Garrett sent the trained nurse to
Washington with her, and we all tried to make the jour-
ney the least possible strain on the patient's vitality.
On our arrival in Washington we went to the
Shoreham, where, as always, the proprietor took pains
to give Miss Anthony a room with a view of the
Washington monument, which she greatly admired.
When I entered her room a little later I found her
standing at a window, holding herself up with hands
braced against the casement on either side, and so
absorbed in the view that she did not hear my ap-
proach. When I spoke to her she answered with-
out turning her head.
``That,'' she said, softly, ``is the most beautiful
monument in the world.''
I stood by her side, and together we looked at it
in silence I realizing with a sick heart that ``Aunt
Susan'' knew she was seeing it for the last time.
The birthday celebration that followed our exec-
utive meeting was an impressive one. It was held
in the Church of Our Father, whose pastor, the Rev.
John Van Schaick, had always been exceedingly kind
to Miss Anthony. Many prominent men spoke.
President Roosevelt and other statesmen sent most
friendly letters, and William H. Taft had promised to
be present. He did not come, nor did he, then or
later, send any excuse for not coming--an omission
that greatly disappointed Miss Anthony, who had
always admired him. I presided at the meeting,
and though we all did our best to make it gay, a
strange hush hung over the assemblage a solemn
stillness, such as one feels in the presence of death.
We became more and more conscious that Miss
Anthony was suffering, and we hastened the exer-
cises all we could. When I read President Roose-
velt's long tribute to her, Miss Anthony rose to
comment on it.
``One word from President Roosevelt in his mes-
sage to Congress,'' she said, a little wearily, ``would
be worth a thousand eulogies of Susan B. Anthony.
When will men learn that what we ask is not praise,
but justice?''
At the close of the meeting, realizing how weak
she was, I begged her to let me speak for her. But
she again rose, rested her hand on my shoulder,
and, standing by my side, uttered the last words
she ever spoke in public, pleading with women to
consecrate themselves to the Cause, assuring them
that no power could prevent its ultimate success,
but reminding them also that the time of its coming
would depend wholly on their work and their loyalty.
She ended with three words--very fitting words
from her lips, expressing as they did the spirit of her
- abruptly [ə´brʌptli]
ad.突然地；粗鲁地 (初中英语单词) - luncheon [´lʌntʃ(ə)n] n.午餐，午宴 (初中英语单词)
- strangely [´streindʒli] ad.奇怪地；陌生地 (初中英语单词)
- marvel [´mɑ:vəl] n.令人惊异的事；奇迹 (初中英语单词)
- waiting [´weitiŋ] n.等候；伺候 (初中英语单词)
- promptly [´prɔmptli] ad.敏捷地；即时地 (初中英语单词)
- persuade [pə´sweid] v.(被)说服；使相信 (初中英语单词)
- telegram [´teligræm] n.电报 (初中英语单词)
- receipt [ri´si:t] n.收到；收据 (初中英语单词)
- whatever [wɔt´evə] pron.&a.无论什么 (初中英语单词)
- brilliant [´briliənt] a.灿烂的；杰出的 (初中英语单词)
- beginning [bi´giniŋ] n.开始，开端；起源 (初中英语单词)
- dramatic [drə´mætik] a.戏剧的；戏剧般的 (初中英语单词)
- sufficiently [sə´fiʃəntli] ad.充分地，足够地 (初中英语单词)
- review [ri´vju:] v.&n.复习；回顾；检查 (初中英语单词)
- unable [ʌn´eibəl] a.不能的；无能为力的 (初中英语单词)
- willing [´wiliŋ] a.情愿的，乐意的 (初中英语单词)
- therefore [´ðeəfɔ:] ad.&conj.因此；所以 (初中英语单词)
- wholly [´həul-li] ad.完全，十足；统统 (初中英语单词)
- plainly [´pleinli] ad.平坦地；简单地 (初中英语单词)
- celebrated [´selibreitid] a.著名的 (初中英语单词)
- arrival [ə´raivəl] n.到达；到达的人(物) (初中英语单词)
- monument [´mɔnjumənt] n.纪念碑；古迹 (初中英语单词)
- softly [´sɔftli] ad.软化地；柔和地 (初中英语单词)
- prominent [´prɔminənt] a.突起的；凸出的 (初中英语单词)
- conscious [´kɔnʃəs] a.意识的；自觉的 (初中英语单词)
- suffering [´sʌfəriŋ] n.痛苦；灾害 (初中英语单词)
- tribute [´tribju:t] n.贡物；献礼；颂词 (初中英语单词)
- standing [´stændiŋ] n.持续 a.直立的 (初中英语单词)
- baltimore [´bɔ:ltimɔ:] n.巴尔的摩 (高中英语单词)
- fashionable [´fæʃənəbəl] a.流行的，时髦的 (高中英语单词)
- intense [in´tens] a.强烈的；紧张的 (高中英语单词)
- salmon [´sæmən] n.鲑，大马哈鱼 (高中英语单词)
- notable [´nəutəbəl] a.显著的 n.名人 (高中英语单词)
- thoughtful [´θɔ:tfəl] a.深思的；体贴的 (高中英语单词)
- decided [di´saidid] a.明显的；决定的 (高中英语单词)
- suffrage [´sʌfridʒ] n.投票(权)，选举权 (高中英语单词)
- banquet [´bæŋkwit] n.宴会，盛宴 (高中英语单词)
- celebration [,seli´breiʃən] n.庆祝(会)；庆典 (高中英语单词)
- strain [strein] vt.拉紧 vi.拖 n.张力 (高中英语单词)
- notwithstanding [,nɔtwiθ´stændiŋ] prep.&conj.虽然；还是 (高中英语单词)
- proprietor [prə´praiətə] n.所有人；业主；经营者 (高中英语单词)
- seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)
- impressive [im´presiv] a.给人深刻印象的 (高中英语单词)
- pastor [´pɑ:stə] n.牧师 (高中英语单词)
- exceedingly [ik´si:diŋli] ad.非常地，极度地 (高中英语单词)
- ultimate [´ʌltimit] a.最终的 n.终极；顶点 (高中英语单词)
- undertook [,ʌndə´tuk] undertake的过去式 (英语四级单词)
- rightly [´raitli] ad.正义地；正确地 (英语四级单词)
- jordan [´dʒɔ:dn] n.约旦 (英语四级单词)
- florence [´flɔrəns] n.佛罗伦萨 (英语四级单词)
- barton [´bɑ:tn] n.(庄园中的)农场 (英语四级单词)
- hospitable [´hɔspitəbəl] a.好客的；招待周到的 (英语四级单词)
- triumphant [trai´ʌmfənt] a.胜利的；洋洋得意的 (英语四级单词)
- voluntary [´vɔləntəri] a.自愿的；义务的 (英语四级单词)
- casement [,keismənt] n.窗扉 (英语四级单词)
- wearily [´wiərili] ad.疲倦地；厌烦地 (英语四级单词)
- inviting [in´vaitiŋ] a.动人的 (英语六级单词)
- preoccupied [pri´ɔkjupaid] a.被先占的；出神的 (英语六级单词)
- assured [ə´ʃuəd] a.确实的 n.被保险人 (英语六级单词)
- festive [´festiv] a.喜庆的，欢乐的 (英语六级单词)
- holding [´həuldiŋ] n.保持，固定，存储 (英语六级单词)
- fitting [´fitiŋ] a.适当的 n.试衣 (英语六级单词)
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