asylum that would make."

"Why, Miss Anthony, do you mean that you would actually turn the
home of this old family into an orphan asylum?"

"Yes," said she, "I think about 700 of these little ragamuffins
could be put in there. Think of the streets just full of them, and
all these big houses vacant! I don't see a better use to which
these old palaces could be put."

Mrs. Upton in her bright, humorous way related some amusing stories
which she had heard from her ancestors, who were born in Berkshire, and
adroitly turned them into an argument for woman suffrage. A beautiful
poem was read, entitled "Pioneers," dedicated to Miss Anthony by her old
friend John M. Thayer, of Rochester. Col. D. R. Anthony created great
mirth by telling among other stories that eighty years ago his father
had a cotton mill of twenty-six looms; one day all of them suddenly
stopped and, rushing out to ascertain the cause, he found that his wife,
in rinsing her mop in the stream, had stopped the power which moved the
machinery! He then referred to the Plunkett factories with 2,600 looms,
and the other great mills of Adams, as illustrating the progress of the
century. In an address which glowed with beauty and eloquence, Mrs. May
Wright Sewall thus compared Miss Anthony's character with the scenes
amidst which she was born:

We, who own and follow our general, know that she goes where
Liberty leads, where Justice calls, where Love whispers his divine
commands; and we have found in her the gravity of your stately
mountains, the yearning for freedom of your lofty hills lifted
toward the sky spaces. We have found in her the impetuosity of your
mountain streams, which, fretting against narrow bounds, broke
through them, widening and widening ever the channel of the life of
American womanhood; and so we, who love appropriateness, gaze with
delight upon this scenery, the environment of her infancy and the
nurturing influence of her childhood, as a fine illustration of the
eternal fitness of things.

One of the most exquisite addresses of the day was made by Mrs. Clara B.
Colby, who said in part:

Miss Anthony's love of justice links her with the divine. This has
been her impelling motive, and her patient endurance has been the
secret of her success. No matter how keen might have been her sense
of the injustice done to women, no matter how courag