and you and all who have
entered into the higher spheres, to revel in things unknown to
me.... I will join you at Mrs. Miller's Saturday, and we'll chat
over men, women and conditions--not theories, theosophies and
theologies, they are all Greek to me.

There had been a question after the late election in Idaho whether the
suffrage amendment required a majority of all the votes cast, or only a
majority of those cast on the amendment. If the former, then it was
defeated. The case was carried to the supreme court, which put the
latter construction on the law. Miss Anthony wrote to the judges, Isaac
N. Sullivan, Joseph W. Huston, Ralph P. Quarles, (John T. Morgan
retired):

On behalf of the suffrage women of the United States, I thank you
for the decision which you have rendered. I had studied over the
clause a great deal and felt that if your judgments were biased by
the precedents and prejudices which had controlled the decisions of
the Supreme Courts of the United States, and of the different
States, upon the extension of rights to women, you certainly would
give the narrow interpretation. Instead of that, for the first time
in the history of our judiciary, the broadest and most liberal
interpretation possible has been given.

The Kentucky Daughters of the American Revolution, who were marking
historic spots, she advised as follows:

I hope in your selections you will be exceedingly careful to
distinguish those actions in which our Revolutionary mothers took
part. Men have been faithful in noting every heroic act of their
half of the race, and now it should be the duty, as well as the
pleasure, of women to make for future generations a record of the
heroic deeds of the other half. It is a splendid thing for your
association to devote the Fourth of July to a commemoration of
women. If I had the time, I too might be one of the
"Daughters,"[130] for my Grandfather Read enlisted and fought on
the heights of Quebec and at the battles of Bennington and
Ticonderoga; but I have been, and must continue to be, so busy
working to secure to the women of this day the paramount right for
which the Revolutionary War was waged, that I can give neither time
nor money to associations of women for any other purpose, however
good it may be.

When the answer came that they were doing the very thi