hat the returned traveller would not fail to tell them something which
would make interesting reading. Miss Anthony was actuated by two motives
in this: One was her desire to get as much suffrage news as possible
into the papers, for no one could have a higher appreciation of the
value of the press; the other was a strong sentiment of admiration and
friendship for the faithful and industrious men and women who earn a
living at newspaper work.

Sunday night, February 14, the birthday of Frederick Douglass was
observed in the Plymouth Congregational Church. Miss Anthony presided
over the large meeting and introduced the speakers.

[Illustration: THE ANTHONY RESIDENCE.

SINCE 1865, ROCHESTER, N. Y.]

There had been something in the air of Rochester for several weeks,
something of a social nature in which most of the people in the city
seemed interested, and it promised to culminate on the approaching 15th
of February, when Miss Anthony should be eleven times seven years old.
This famous birthday, which had been beautifully celebrated in New York,
Washington and numbers of other cities and towns throughout the country,
also had been often pleasantly observed in Rochester; but it was thought
by many people here that it was time Miss Anthony's own city should hold
a celebration which should eclipse all on record. The first intimation
she had was the receipt of this invitation:

The woman's clubs of this city are planning to give a reception in
your honor at Powers Hall on the evening of your seventy-seventh
birthday, February 15, 1897. They have chosen this means of
publicly expressing the great esteem in which they hold you, and
the pride they feel in reckoning among their number a woman of
national reputation. They trust that this date will be
satisfactory, and this manner of showing their respect not
distasteful to you. Very sincerely,

OLIVE DAVIS,
_Corresponding Secretary of the Committee on Arrangements_.

The committee was composed of one member of each of the sixteen woman's
clubs, and the admirable manner in which the affair was conducted
certainly indicated that it was in the hands of representative
women.[127] Most of the Rochester papers contained editorials of
congratulation. Among others the Post-Express said of the celebration:

Its purpose is to indicate the esteem in which she is held by the