ve mentioned who spoke during
the convention were Cand. phil. Helena Berg, Elizabeth Grundtvig,
Stampe Fedderson, Denmark: Briet Asmundsson, Iceland; Mrs. F. M. Qvam,
Cand. phil. Mathilde Eriksen, Gina Krog and Mrs. L. Keilhau, Norway;
Dr. Ellen Sandelin, Anna Whitlock, Gertrud Adelborg, Huldah Lundin,
Ann Margret Holmgren, Frigga Carlberg, Anna B. Wicksell, and Jenny
Wallerstedt, Sweden; Baroness Gripenberg, Dr. Meikki Friberg, Finland;
Zeniede Mirovitch, Elizabeth Goncharow, Olga Wolkenstein, Anne
Kalmanovitch, Russia; Rosika Schwimmer, Vilma Gluecklich, Bertha Engel,
Hungary; Lida Gustave Heymann, Adelheid von Welczeck, Regina Ruben,
Germany; Mrs. Rutgers Hoitsema, Mrs. van Loenen de Bordes,
Netherlands; Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lady Steel, Dora Montefiore,
Mrs. Broadley Reid, Great Britain; Miss Lucy E. Anthony, United
States; Mrs. Henry Dobson, Australia.

One afternoon session was devoted to memorial services for Miss
Anthony, with the principal address by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, her
biographer, and beautiful tributes by delegates of seven European
countries and Canada expressing the debt of gratitude which all women
owed to the great pioneer. Mrs. Harper briefly sketched the
subordinate position of women when Miss Anthony began her great work
for their emancipation in 1851; told of her efforts for temperance and
the abolition of slavery; her part in forming the International
Council of Women; her publication of the History of Woman Suffrage and
the many other activities of her long life. She described the advanced
position of women at present and closed by saying:

No one who makes a careful study of the great movement for the
emancipation of woman can fail to recognize in Miss Anthony its
supreme leader. After her death last March more than a thousand
editorials appeared in the principal newspapers of the country
and practically every one of them accorded her this distinction.
She was the only one who gave to this cause her whole life,
consecrating to its service every hour of her time and every
power of her being. Other women did what they could; came into
the work for awhile and dropped out; had the divided interests of
family and social relations; turned their attention to reforms
which promised speedier rewards; surrendered to the forces of
persecution. With Miss Anthony the cause of woman took the place
of husband, children, society; it wa