The herald., 1893-12-17
WOMEN KNOWN TO FAME.

How Susan b. Anthony and Elisabeth Cady
Stanton Record History.
eff you want to know how mother and
Susan B. Anthony act together" said
Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton's daughter, "rll give you let
ter wrote about them when they were
writing their old history of woman's suf-
frage."
The letter was written in 1885, bat
Mrs. Lawrence asserts that things are
much the same now as then. It was
dated at Tenatiy, N. j., where Mrs.
Stanton was living.
Mother and Susan" wrote Mrs. Law
renee, "are busy all day and far into the
night on volume 8 of The History of
Woman Suffrage As our house faces
the south, the sunshine streams in all
day. In the center of large room, 90
by 90, with an immense bay window,
hard wood floor and open fire, beside q
substantial Office desk with innumerable
drawers and doors, there, vis-a-vis, sit
the historians, surrounded with manu-
scripts and letters from Maine to Louisi-
ana. In the center of the desk are two
inkstands and two bottles of mucilage,
to say nothing Of divers pens, pencils,
scissors, knives and 'erasers
GAS these famous women grow in
tense in working up some glowing sem
tence or pasting some thrilling quotation
from John Stuart Mill, Dumas or Secre-
tan, have seen them again and again
dip their pens in the mucilage and their
brushes in the ink. These blunders
bring them back to the facts of history,
where indeed they should be if that
blessed word fms is ever to be written.
Sub rosa, it is as good as comedy to
watch these souls from day to day. They
start off pretty we'll in the morning.
They are fresh and amiable. They write
page after page with alacrity; they laugh
and talk, poke the fire by turns and ad-
mire the flowers have placed on their
desk. Everything is harmonious for a
season.
''But after straining their eyes over
the most illegible, disorderly manu-
scripts ever beheld suddenly the whole
literary sky is overspread. From the
adjoining room 1 hear hot dispute.
The dictionary, the encyclopedia, all the
journals neatly piled in corner, are
overhauled and tossed about in the n -ost
emphatic manner.
"Susan is punctilious on dates, moth
er on philosophy, but each contends as
stoutly in the others domain as if it
were her own particular province. Some
times these disputes run SO high that
down go the pens, and one sails out of
one door and one out Of the other. And
then, just as have made up my mind
that this beautiful friendship of 40 years
has at last terminated, see them, arm
in arm, walking down the hill to seat
where we often go to watch the sun set
in all his glory.
when they return, they go straight
to work where they left off as if nothing
had happened. never hear another
word on that point. The one that was
unquestionably right assumes it, and the
other silently comedies the fact. They
never explain, nor apologize, nor shed
tears, nor make up, as other people do,
but figuratively speaking jump over a
stone wall at one bound and leave the
past behind them"
AS Mrs. Lawrence said, things are
much the same now with the two friends
as they were eight years ago, when Mrs.
Stanton was only threescore years and
ten and Miss Anthony was not yet out Of
her sixties. They live in peace and har-
mony still. Miss Anthony is still the au-
thority on dates, and Mrs. Stanton still
writes the 'state papers," They are still
criticised and sometimes ridiculed, but
they are too strong in their own convic-
tions and too broad minded in their tol-
erance to do otherwise than laugh about
it.
And they are still planning for greater
work than ever. To the constitutional
convention of next May is to be present.
ed petition signed by million men and
women over 81 years of age asking that
the word male be e1punged from the
constitution. At any rate, that is the
work planned by these two friends
New York Sun.