the First Congress. Justice Fuller
made a beautiful oration on the progress of the century but failed to
have discovered a woman all the way down;" and another: "This morning
called on Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Stanford and Mrs. Manderson to talk about
having women represented in the Columbian Exposition of 1892. All are in
favor of it."

Every hour was filled with business, and with social duties undertaken
solely because of the influence they might have on the great and only
question. The last day of 1889 she went to pay the final honors to the
wife of her faithful ally, Hon. A. G. Riddle. Death had robbed her of
many friends during the past year. On February 1 her old co-worker Amy
Post, of Rochester, was laid to rest, one of the veteran Abolitionists
who commenced the work in 1833 with Garrison, and who had stood by the
cause of woman as faithfully as by that of the slave. In March passed
away in the prime of womanhood, Mary L. Booth, editor of Harper's Bazar
from its beginning in 1867. In June died Maria Mitchell, the great
astronomer, in the fullness of years, having completed threescore and
ten. In November was finished the work of Dinah Mendenhall, the
venerable Quaker and philanthropist, wife of Isaac Mendenhall, whose
home near Philadelphia had been for sixty years the refuge of the poor
and oppressed, without regard to sex, color or creed.[52]

At the close of the old year, the Washington Star in a long interview,
headed "A Leader of Women," said.

Miss Anthony is now at the capital, ready for the regular annual
agitation before Congress of the proposed Sixteenth Amendment to
the Constitution. She is one of the remarkable women of the world.
In appearance she has not grown a day older in the past ten years.
Her manner has none of the excitement of an enthusiast; never
discouraged by disappointment, she keeps calmly at work, and she
could give points in political organization and management to some
of the best male politicians in the land. Her face is strong and
intellectual, but full of womanly gentleness. Her gold spectacles
give her a motherly rather than a severe expression, and a stranger
would see nothing incongruous in her doing knitting or fancy-work.
In no sense does she correspond with the distorted idea of a
woman's rights agitator. In conversation her manner is that of
perfect repose. She is always entertaining, and the most romanti