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The Story of a Pioneer-Part49_Anna Howard Shaw(1847-1919)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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By this time my thoughts were on my courtesy,



which I desired to make conventional if not grace-

ful; but nature has not made it easy for me to



double to the earth as Lady Aberdeen and the In-

dian women were doing, and I fear I accomplished



little save an exhibition of good intentions. The

Queen, however, was getting into the spirit of the



occasion. She stopped to speak to a Canadian

representative, and she would, I think, have ended



by talking to many others; but, just at the psycho-

logical moment, a woman rushed out of the line,



seized Her Majesty's hand and kissed it--and Vic-

toria, startled and possibly fearing a general on-



slaught, hurriedly passed on.

Another picture I recall was made by the Duchess



of Sutherland, the Countess of Aberdeen, and the

Countess of Warwick standing together to receive



us at the foot of the marblestairway in Sutherland

House. All of them literally blazed with jewels, and



the Countess of Aberdeen wore the famous Aber-

deen emerald. At Lady Battersea's reception I had



my first memorial meeting with Mary Anderson

Navarro, and was able to thank her for the pleasure



she had given me in Boston so long ago. Then I

reproached her mildly for taking herself away from



us, pointing out that a great gift had been given

her which she should have continued to share with



the world.

``Come and see my baby,'' laughed Madame



Navarro. ``That's the best argument I can offer

to refute yours.''



At the same reception I had an interesting talk

with James Bryce. He had recently written his



American Commonwealth, and I had just read it.

It was, therefore, the first subject I introduced in



our conversation. Mr. Bryce's comment amused

me. He told me he had quite changed his opinion



toward the suffrage aspirations of women, because

so many women had read his book that he really



believed they were intelligent, and he had come to

feel much more kindly toward them. These were



not his exact words, but his meaning was unmistak-

able and his mental attitude artlessly sincere. And,



on reflection, I agree with him that the American

Commonwealth is something of an intellectual hurdle



for the average human mind.

In 1908 the International Council was held in



Geneva, and here, for the first time, we were shown,

as entertainment, the dances of a country--the



scene being an especially brilliant one, as all the

dancers wore their native costumes. Also, for the



first time in the history of Geneva, the buildings of

Parliament were opened to women and a woman's



organization was given the key to the city. At

that time the Swiss women were making their fight



for a vote in church matters, and we helped their

cause as much as we could. To-day many Swiss



women are permitted to exercise this right--the

first political privilege free Switzerland has given



them.

The International Alliance meeting in Amster-



dam in 1909 was the largest held up to that time,

and much of its success was due to Dr. Aletta Jacobs,



the president of the National Suffrage Association

of Holland. Dr. Jacobs had some wonderful helpers



among the women of her country, and she herself

was an ideal leader--patient, enthusiastic, and tire-



less. That year the governments of Australia, Nor-

way, and Finland paid the expenses of the delegates



from those countries--a heartening innovation. One

of the interesting features of the meeting was a






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