full of flowers from 'one of the girls' with a poem; a handsome
feather boa from Mrs. Swift and Mrs. Sperry of California; a cup made
from the wood of the floor under the table on which the Declaration of
Independence was signed, presented in the name of Mrs. General Geddes;
a bouquet of red roses from Prof. Theodosia Ammons of Colorado
Agricultural College; potted plants from the Swedish and Norwegian
delegates; over $500 from Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard, Miss Emily
Howland, Mrs. Kenyon, Mrs. W. W. Trimble, Miss Nettie Lovisa White,
Mrs. William M. Ivins and other friends; also quantities of fruit and
flowers. The address was as follows:

We, the undersigned, Foreign Delegates to the first International
Woman Suffrage Congress, gladly take the opportunity of your 82nd
birthday to express to you our love and reverence, our gratitude
for your lifelong work for women, and are rejoicing that you have
lived to see such great steps onward made by the world at large
in the direction in which you led at first under such prejudice.
Praying that you may enjoy years of health, cheered by every
fresh advance, we remain, your loving friends,

Florence Fenwick Miller, England; Sofja Levovna Friedland,
Russia; Carolina Holman Huidobro, Chili; Gudrun Drewsen, Norway;
Vida Goldstein, Australia; Emmy Evald, Sweden; Antonie Stolle,
Germany.

[Later the foreign delegates gave Mrs. Catt a handsomely engraved
silver card case.]

The Washington _Times_ said of the occasion:

The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw presented a large basket of fruit from
some of the principal suffrage workers with these touching words:
"Miss Anthony, you have been more than a leader to us of your own
country, more than a teacher, more than a counselor, you have
been our beloved friend. Take this with our love for you, dear,
dear friend." This completed Miss Anthony's conquest and she
almost broke down. There has been very little emotionalism in
this convention but for some minutes there was ample proof all
over the hall that being delegates to a suffrage convention had
not made any woman forget how to cry. Mrs. Catt finally came to
Miss Anthony's rescue in a little speech full of tender
appreciation: "The greatest thing about Miss Anthony to my mind
is her utter unselfishness and lack of self-consciousness. As we
came up the aisle the othe