Rock Island Argus., 1893-12-26
WOMEN KNOWN rc FAME.

OeW Susoa =. Anthoay end E1isabeeh CaAy
Stanton Record Risessy.
'If you want to know how mother and
Susan B. Anthony act together" said
4rs. Lawrence. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton's daughter. 'I'll give you . let
ter I wrote about them when they were
writing their Oldhistory Of womsn's suf-
fEage."
Tho letter was written IN 1855, but
4rs. Lawrence asserts that things are
much the same now as then. Il was
dated at Tenafiy, n. J., wher, Mrs.
Stanton was living. ~
Mother and Susan, /" wrctDN Nfa Law
renee. ''are busy all day and Tar into the
night ON volume s Of The History Of
Woman Suffrage As our house faces
the south, the sunshine streams In all
day. In the center Of large room, 20
by @, with an immense bay window,
hard wood floor and open fire, beside o
substantial Office desk with iunumerable
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
tnkstands and two bottles of mucilage,
to say nothing Of divers pens, pencils,
scissors, knives and crasers.
"As these famous women crow 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 he IL that
blessed word finis is ever to he written.
Sub rosa, it is as good rs comedy to
watch these souls from day to day. They
start of pretty well in the morning.
They ARE fresh and amiable. They write
page after page with alacrity; they laugh
and talk, poke the fire by tuyns and ad-
inirc the flowers have placed on their
desk. Everything Is harmonious for a
season.
"Brt after straining their eyes over
the most illegible, disorderly mann
scripts ever beheld suddenly the whole
literary sky is overspread. From the
adjoining room l hear q hot dispute.
The dictionary, the encyclopedias. all the
journals neatly piled in q corner, are
overhauled and tossed about in the most
emphatic manner.
susan Is punctiiious on dates, moth.
er on philosophy. but each contends as
stoutly in the others domain as if it
were herown 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 ut last terminated, see them, arm
IN arm, walking down the hill to a seat
where we often so to watch the sun set
in all his glory.
when they return, they 60 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 fguratively 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 vet on, of
her sixties. They live in peace and har-
mony still. Miss Anthony is still the ou-
thority on dates, and Mrs. Stanton still
writes the Estate 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
IL.
And they are still planning for greater
work than ever. To the constitutional
Convention Of next May is TO be present
ed q petition signed by million men and
women over 81 years Of age asking that
the word male be cxpunged from the
constitution. At any rate. that is the
work planned by these two friends
New York Sun.
guecu Victoria Smiled.