The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-19
TWO FAMOUS WOMEN TALK.
ELIz4BETH ChDT STANTON AND SUSAN
u. ANTHONY RECALL OLD TIMES.

Yesterday afternoon Two wnlte-nalreu ihuies
sat opposite each other In parlor overlooking
tho Park. and told stories OF other times These
two ladies were Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Miss Susan II. Anthony.
How long have you and Miss Anthony
been friends 2" asked tho reporter who was
present.
I've first met In May. 1851. didn't we. STU
san p said Mrs. Stanton. Yes. there was an
Antl-Slavery Convention in Syracuse. and Miss
Anthony came. George Thompson and william
LLOYD Garrison wero my guests. We wero GO
ing home to dinner when We met Miss Anthony
on the street. Who was with you. Susan 7"
why, Mrs. Boomer Don't you remember
I was her guest 2" replied Miss Anthony. with
ns keen n recollection OF the circumstances as
~ It had all happened yesterday You know
Mrs. Bloomer introduced new fashion in
dress skirts" she said. turning to the reporter
with quizzical smile
did you adopt the costume OF your host
essP"
"Oh. no. che didn't" said Mrs. Stanton. 1
remembr perfectly how she was dressed.
Susan, get Volume I. OF Tho History OF
Woman's Suffrage and show how you looked.
She had on q gray silk dress and gray hat.
and wore pale blue ribbons. She was the per-
lection OF neatness and sobrety."
BY this time Miss Anthony had found her
picture Ill NOlulIc l., anu sho"cu tho Iopoitci
a steel engraving OF young woman with fine.
clear features. and soft hair brushed. as now.
down over the ears. 1t was a face both sweet
and strong but not more so than the one
which scanned 1t through the glasses which
the clear eyes OF forty years ago had not
They used to rldicule me go much" said
Miss Anthony. look ing at the engraving with
q sort OF curious interest.
How dii yon two hannen to take up the
"Woll Mrs Stanton heuan IL long before |
did. so let her tell first" said Miss Anthony
=" What frat Influenced me. began Mrs.
oh II you were onlya boyr
stu lied Greek. and. what was much harder.
learned to ride b my noHhy, oon even h scaled fng
suPSa. al Hs tnss
must do a. they did But every time / went to
my father in trumrh eyer ihe
lust like boy all heard was If only you
"AlI this made me feel very strongly about
the subject Of the standing OF women. and
there were other things that helped. Ny
h aly nd AIS in
or turn oil going on. was supposed To- be the
guilty party. and was sent into my fathers
time there. used to hear the women come in
such sympathy. and ask my father why he
didn't make things different. so that women
s so 50 thu ufa TSs So Ans
would take down the books and show II to me.
i wasn't long. assure you. before had oil
AT last an old woman. who used to bring us
chickens and maple sugar. and such things:
her troubles and when she went out l followed
her: .,. p,or, ,rs,i, .ao,,+ 70, worrv,,v
over. and know what I'm going to do; To-
morrow is sunday; Now. shant 60 to church
are gone I'll come in and cut all those bad
laws out of the books and then it will be all
Flora. OF course. told my father about my in
tentions. and that night ne called me in ana
bis . book. were burned there we're hundreds Of
lawyers all through the State with Libraries
." What you must do he said. lis to wait
till you are older. and then go up to the Legis:
atus and a'k them to fGsass
living. with that purpose in view. Now. Susan.
We'll" said Miss Anthony. 1T was entire
ly different with me. I,gucss was like Topsy
and lest growed' to believe in women and
MI, TfhS i3a ny 'stheT Quaker
good as boys. and had AZ good right to earn
money and to be paid as we'll. think my first
school when I was - years old At first |
taught for 81 a week and my board. But
saw saw" that the farmers sons. who We're no
better teachers than l. received $50 month
That interested ne in the riEh It, Of women to
property law Still. had never thought Of
voting;
young girl. and my father and mother went to
an anti slayery convention at Rochester and
Mrs. stanton a FI and rs Mott how 2 oYeS they
werel and how brilliant! Well. Just laughed
at them and at the Idea Of women voting. But
Mass. and Horace Greeley sent a reporter. so
that read the reports Of the speeches. some
4 hi hnt hat ,Nrt,t tNtt,
before. In 1851, at Syracuse. met Mrs. STAN
ton. on the corner on her way home, to dinner
her. but Mrs. l,Ioomer and ] went over aud
called in the afternoon: and I've been woman
And have you and Mrs. Stanton work. ed to-
gether FOR forty years without falling out p
We agree in tho main and differ Just enough
In detail to make things interesting" said Mrs.
~ YOU want to know how mother and Susan
toms daughter who had now Joined the party.
" III give you u letter wrote about them when |
they wer. writing their old history OF womans
Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Anthony undertook to
demur Mt first but finally yielded with the best |
but Mrs. Lawrence asserts that things are |
much the same now as then. 1t WAS dated at |
Mother and susan. wrote Mrs Vi" Iawr renee.
" are busy all day and far into the night on |
HSH%o A OF eS fSss 9 w soa S NE
n large room. 20 by,22 with an immense bay Hy
side substantial once desk with innumera-
BILE drawers and doors there, vis-j-vs. sit the
historians surrounded with manuscripts and
letters from Maine to Louisiana, In the centre
ol the desk are two inkstands and two bottles
Of mucilage. tie say nothing Of divers pens.
pencils, scissors. knives. and erasers. As
these famous women grow intense in
working up some. glowing sentence. or
FASTING some thrilling quotation from John
Stuart MIL. Dumas. or Secrdtan. I have
seen them again and again dip their pens In
the mucilage and their ushes in the ink
These blund"rs bring them back to the facts
e history. where; indeed: thoy. should pc II
Sub rosa. It isas good as a comedy to watch
these souls from day to day. They start IN
pretty well in tho morning. They are fresh
and amiabe. They write page after page
lire by turns. and admire the flowers have
placed on their desk. Everything Is har-
monious for season.
but after strainng their eyes over the
most illeGible disorderly man uscripts ever
Dehsd. suddenly the whole, literary sky is
From the adjoining room hear
a hot dispute; Tho dictionary the encrclo-
nre overhauled and tossed and tossed about In |
Tho lost emphatic manner.
Ia MI ,lnto |