ts place among the
martyrs and saints of liberty, not for man alone, but for woman and
child."
To watch the old year out and the New Year in, Miss Anthony went to
Geneva, and here spent a few days very pleasantly with Elizabeth Smith
Miller and her guest, Harriot Stanton Blatch. Among the New Year's
remembrances were $50 from Mrs. Elda A. Orr, of Reno, Nev.; $150 from
Mrs. Gross, of Chicago; and $300 from Mrs. Cornelia Collins Hussey, of
Orange, N. J. The usual number of congratulatory letters were received
from all classes of people, high and low, old and young, white and
colored.
To show their wide range two or three may be given. From Mrs. Ellen M.
Henrotin, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "I send
to you on the New Year a fraternal greeting and my best wishes that this
may prove for you and the interests you represent, a year of
fulfillment. We are all serving the same cause and we are surely among
the happy ones of earth that we are enabled to assist, by even a slight
impetus, the 'power which makes for righteousness.' ... Therefore I send
you today my heartfelt wishes for the continued success of your cause
and the peace and prosperity of your life."
Her friend of fifty years, John W. Hutchinson, the last of that
never-equalled family of singers, sent his New Year's greetings and
added: "I bless you and your work. Wonderful possibilities will be the
result of this great movement, which you have led, for equal rights and
the franchise for women." The president of the National Council of
Women, Mary Lowe Dickinson, an earnest, efficient worker for humanity,
said in the course of a long letter dated January 9:
I pray that all strength and blessing of every kind may crown this
coming year of your life; and O, how earnestly I hope that in it
you may see the fruition of some of the work that you have been
struggling with these many, many years. When I run over in my mind
the present situation of the cause you represent--which seems to me
more and more the one cause which must succeed if we are going to
have genuine success anywhere else--I see what ground you have for
encouragement and what a vast advance has been made; but I see,
too, how slow it must seem to you, and how weary of waiting you
must become. I know no courage like yours, and I do that courage
full honor.
She had received a telegram of greeting from Frances E.
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