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The Story of a Pioneer-Part50_Anna Howard Shaw(1847-1919)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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to an address of welcome by the mayor; and the

high-light of the evening session in that city falls on



the intellectual brow of a Bohemian lady who in-

sisted on making her address in the Czech language,



which she poured forth for exactly one hour and

fifteen minutes. I began my address at a quarter of



twelve and left the hall at midnight. Later I learned

that the last speaker began her remarks at a quarter



past one in the morning.

It may be in order to add here that Vienna did



for me what Berlin had done for Susan B. Anthony--

it gave me the ovation of my life. At the conclusion



of my speech the great audience rose and, still stand-

ing, cheered for many minutes. I was immensely



surprised and deeply touched by the unexpected

tribute; but any undue elation I might have ex-



perienced was checked by the memory of the skepti-

cal snort with which one of my auditors had received



me. He was very German, and very, very frank.

After one pained look at me he rose to leave the



hall.

``THAT old woman!'' he exclaimed. ``She cannot



make herself heard.''

He was half-way down the aisle when the opening



words of my address caught up with him and stopped

him. Whatever their meaning may have been, it



was at least carried to the far ends of that great hall,

for the old fellow had piqued me a bit and I had



given my voice its fullest volume. He crowded into

an already over-occupied pew and stared at me with



goggling eyes.

``Mein Gott!'' he gasped. ``Mein Gott, she could



be heard ANYWHERE.''

The meeting at Budapest was a great personal



triumph for Mrs. Catt. No one, I am sure, but the

almost adored president of the International Suf-



frage Alliance could have controlled a convention

made up of women of so many different nationalities,



with so many different viewpoints, while the con-

fusion of languages made a general understanding



seem almost hopeless. But it was a great success in

every way--and a delightful feature of it was the



hospitality of the city officials and, indeed, of the

whole Hungarian people. After the convention I



spent a week with the Contessa Iska Teleki in her

chateau in the Tatra Mountains, and a friendship



was there formed which ever since has been a joy

to me. Together we walked miles over the moun-



tains and along the banks of wonderful streams, while

the countess, who knows all the folk-lore of her



land, told me stories and answered my innumerable

questions. When I left for Vienna I took with me



a basket of tiny fir-trees from the tops of the Tatras;

and after carrying the basket to and around Vienna,



Florence, and Genoa, I finally got the trees home in

good condition and proudly added them to the



``Forest of Arden'' on my place at Moylan.

XVII



VALE!

In looking back over the ten years of my adminis-



tration as president of the National American

Woman Suffrage Association, there can be no feeling



but gratitude and elation over the growth of the

work. Our membership has grown from 17,000



women to more than 200,000, and the number

of auxiliary societies has increased in propor-



tion.

Instead of the old-time experience of one campaign



in ten years, we now have from five to ten campaigns

each year. From an original yearlyexpenditure of



$14,000 or $15,000 in our campaign work, we now

expend from $40,000 to $50,000. In New York, in



1915, we have already received pledges of $150,000

for the New York State campaign alone, while



Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Jersey have




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