man was allowed to speak in public; and then let him read these
closing chapters of her ovations extending from ocean to ocean. From a
canvass of New York State in a sleigh, speaking to little handfuls of
people in country schoolhouses, ridiculed by the newspapers and outlawed
by society--to an endless series of conventions and congresses in all
the great cities of the country, with no hall large enough to hold the
audiences and with almost the unanimous approval of press and people!
Only a short period of less than fifty years, scarcely a second in the
eons of history, and yet in that brief time a revolution in public
sentiment, an overturning of the customs and prejudices of the ages, the
release of womanhood from unknown centuries of bondage!

FOOTNOTES:

[128] Among other birthday remembrances were a diamond pin from Miss
Shaw, Mrs. Avery, Mrs. Louise Mosher James and Lucy E. Anthony; $50 from
Mrs. Gross; many smaller gifts and quantities of flowers.

[129] During this month a fine medallion of Miss Anthony was made for
the Political Equality Club of Rochester and put on sale to obtain money
for the suffrage fund. Some time before, a handsome souvenir spoon was
designed by Mrs. Millie Burtis Logan, of Rochester.

[130] Later Miss Anthony was made honorary member of Irondequoit
Chapter, D. A. R. (Rochester).

[131] Miss Anthony was this year made honorary member of the Cuban
League, the Rochester Historical Society, the Ladies of the Maccabees,
and various other organizations.

CHAPTER L.

HOME LIFE--THE REUNION--THE WOMAN.

1897.

The unsurpassed powers of endurance, which have enabled Miss Anthony to
work without ceasing for more than sixty years, are due to her perfect
physical condition. She comes of a long-lived race, in which
centenarians have been not unusual. Her paternal grandfather lived past
the age of ninety-seven, able to oversee his farm to the very last; the
grandmother lived beyond sixty-seven; both the maternal grandparents
died in their eighty-fourth year; her father at sixty-nine, and her
mother at eighty-six. She never has abused her inheritance of a fine,
strong constitution. Travelling so much of the time, she has not been
able to observe regular hours and, being usually entertained in private
families, has not had a choice of food, but nevertheless, as far as
possible, she has observed the laws of health which she made for herself
in youth.

She never fails to take each m