g the verdant foliage.

Seated upon the platform were the four ladies who have successively
filled the position of president of the Portia Club, Mrs. Elizabeth
Lyle Saxon, Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick, Mrs. Evelyn B. Ordway and
Miss Florence Huberwald. The entrance of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Catt
was the signal for a burst of applause, which rose into an ovation
when Miss Huberwald, in a few graceful words, presented Mrs.
Merrick, who in turn introduced Miss Anthony as the most famous
woman in America. When the applause subsided, Miss Anthony, whose
voice is singularly sweet and clear, began to speak.

She was presented with a basket of flowers and a bouquet from Mrs. J. M.
Ferguson, president of the Arena club. At the close hundreds pressed
forward to take the hands of the speakers.

They left this charming and hospitable city Wednesday evening, Mrs. Catt
going to Greenville, Miss Anthony to Shreveport. Here she was
entertained by Mrs. M. F. Smith and Professor C. E. Byrd, principal of
the high school. The Hypatia Club sent her two lovely floral offerings.
Of her lecture the Times said editorially:

This veteran apostle of woman's rights addressed a magnificent
audience last evening at the court-house, a representative
assemblage comprising all the best elements of all the best classes
of Shreveport's citizens, and one which was equally divided between
men and women. Miss Anthony is certainly a remarkable woman in
every respect, and one whose genius will leave its mark not only on
the recorded history of the nineteenth century, but in the advanced
position of woman now and for all time to come. She was one of the
first women in America to raise her voice in advocacy of woman's
rights, and she has lived to see herself and her sisters gradually
released from legalized bondage and, in everything but suffrage,
made the full equal of man. No one can deny that her claims are
founded on justice; and in the light of cold and clear reason,
divested of all sentiment and cleansed of all prejudice, her
arguments can not be successfully controverted.

By failure of the train to connect with the ferry she was unable to join
Mrs. Catt and keep her appointment at Jackson. When, after waiting two
hours, she finally reached that station at half-past nine, she found a
message from Mrs. Catt that she was holding a magnific