Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-12-26

Inc occasion was strong reminder of a
similar one that took place wears ago on
the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of
Horace Greeley. But national and world
wide, indeed, as had been Horace Gree
ley's services to humanity, it was not by
any pubic or spontaneous outburst that
his natal day was celebrated 1t waa
the thought and work of an individual,
and there were greetings and responses
and the memory of that benignant. child
like lace, radiant with happiness, can
never be forgotten, still it was us moth
ing in its significance compared with the
outburst of affection and greeting which
came from every part of the country and
every quarter of the globe and made a
halo for the white head of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton on her seventeen birthday.
The celebration" seems to have be-
gun with Mrs. Elizabeth }ovnton Har-
bert, who devoted the November num-
Der of her Ae~ Err to tributes in prose
and verse, and it was echoed by clubs
and suffrage societies all over the
country, while the browning fete in New
York was signallzed by the presence of
Queen Elizabeth herself, and the reading
of a special paper prepared for the oc-
'casion, "The Pleasures of Old Age"
Royalty itself-her of the ruff, | mean
might have been proud of the letters
and cables from the old word. the let
tiers and kilograms and gifts from the
new. The flowers, the books, the pic
lures, the silver the mosaics, the Cali
fornia blankcts-cvcn bank checks,
which, rs the recipient remarked were
as welcome to O d ladies of spendthrift
tendencies as to the young Tributes in
prose and verse were plentiful enough to
fill volumes; but the one that pleased
me best came in a letter from Il married
daughter living in England
Among the hundreds of clubs and So
cietics that specially celebrated the event
was the New Or ems Woman's Club-a
significant fact, us showing not only the
cordially that exists between the women
Of the South and the women of the
North, but the utter change that has
taken place in public sentiment in every
part Of the Union
Mrs. Stanton's resume of the "Pleas-
ures of Old Age was delightful, and
certainly went far t. prove, as she said,
that sat fifty, not fifteen, began the
true heyday of a woman's life Very
touching were the remarks made bv Miss
Anthony, who referred to the length of
time they had worked together since
1850, when they met at the first anti
slavery convention, which met at Mrs.
Stanton's residence in Seneca Falls. N.
y. Since then they had been ardent
'co-lahorers, and were spending their
later days, one at seventy, the other at
sixty five, in collecting materials and
writing their history of the reform
movements of this century.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, in one of
her bright, ready speeches. told the fol-
lowing anecdotes:
'NIrs. Stanton is better known for her
ability than for her ready wit. A smile
seems to be lurking always in the cor
ners of her mouth, and merry retort is
ever on her lips. | remember one such
instance which occurred at the earliest
convention at which l was present. 1t
was at Newport in the summer of 1869.
Mrs. Isabella Beechcr Hooker made her
first public speech on that occasion. She
had manuscript in her hand from
which she read. but having a strong ma
tive gift as an orator, she frequently d.
verged from the paper In the course
of her remarks she came to some allusion
to Moses, when looking up from her
lecture she said:
81 have always thought that when
passed to a better world the person
should most wish to see, of course after
members of my own immediate family,
would be Moses
Mrs. Stanton whispered sotto roce, az
have often suspected that Moses was a
Beecher"
A gentleman on the platform leaned
over and asked. "Mrs Stanton, when
You &C to heaven do you want to see
Moses2"
"No," she replied promptly, 81 want
to see Lots wife "
The distinguished lady ono, enjoyed n
Joke at the expense of one of the leadng
judges of the State. lie had opposed
the married woman's property rights be-
cause he declared if wife held separ.
ate estate it would lead to ouarrels in
the family and direful were the pictures
he drew of the divorces and miseries
which would follow such law.
Despite these lugubrious vaccinations
the bill was passed and not long after
Mrs. Stanton met the judge. She ex-
tended her hand with sad and mourn
full countenance, saying: "Permit me
to condole with you, judge"
son what, MADAME he asked in
alarm.
''on your great domestic trials, and