The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-04-16
w. CT. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.
WOMEN KNOWN TO FAME.
How Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Record History.

er and Susan B. Anthony act tC
Igether, said Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter
'I"I'll give you letter | wrote abou
them when they were writing thel
old history of woman's suffrage.
The letter was written in 1885, bu
Mrs. Lawrence asserts that thing
are much the same now as then
1t was dated at Tenahy, N. j.
where Mrs. Stanton was living.
"Mother and Susan" wrote Mrs
Lawrence, care busy all day am
far into the night on volume 3 0
The History of Woman Suffrage.
As our house faces the south, tn
sunshine streams in all day. In tn
center of large room, 20 by 22
with an immense bay window, hare
wood floor and open fire, beside
substantial office desk with innum
cradle drawers and doors, there
vis-a-vis, sit the historians, sur
rounded with manuscripts and let
tiers from Maine to Louisiana. Ii
the center of the desk are two ink
stands and two bottles Of mucilage
to say nothing Of divers pens, pen
ellis, scissors, knives and erasers.
"As these famous women grow
intense in working up some glowing
sentence or pasting some thrilling
quotation from John Stuart Mill
Dumas or Secretan, ! have seer
them again and again dip their pens
in the muscilage and their brushes
in the ink. These blunders bring
them back to the facts of histories,
where indeed they should be if that
blessed word fnis is ever to be
written. Sub rosa, it is as good as
a comedy to watch these souls from
day to day. They start off 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 turns and
admire the flowers i have placed on
ON their desk. Everything is har-
monious for season.
"But after straining their eyes
over the most illegible, disorderly
manuscripts | ever beheld suddenly
the whole literary sky is overspread.
From the adjoining room | hear a
not dispute. The dictionary, the
encyclopedia, all the journals neat
y piled in corner, are overhauled
and tossed about in the most en-
Dhatic manner.
"Susan is punctilious on dates,
mother on philosophy, but each
as stoutly in the others
domain as if it were her own par
icular province. Sometimes these
disputes run SO high that down go
he p ms, and one sails ou: of one
loor and one out of the other.
And then, just as | have made
lp my mind that this friendship
4 40 years has at last termi-
lated, l see them, arm in arm,
down the hill to seat
'here we often 60 to watch the sum
ct in all his glory.
"When they return, they goI
traight to work where they left off
s if nothing had happened. II
ever hear another word on that
'oint. The one that was unques-
right assumes it, and the
ther silently comedies the fact.
hey never explain, nor apologize,
or shed tears, nor make up, as
ther people do, but figuratively
peaking jump over a stone wall at
ne bound and leave the past be-
ind them"
As Mrs. Lawrence said, things
re- much the same now with the
vo friends as they were eight years
go, when Mrs. Stanton was only
lreescore years and ten and Miss
nthony was not yet out OF her six
es. They live in peace and mar
'ony still. Miss Anthony is still
le authority on dates, and Mrs.
tanton still writes the Estate pa
srs." They are still criticised and
'metimes ridiculed, but they are
o strong in their own convictions
Id too broad minded in tolerance|
do otherwise than laugh about it.
And they are still planning forIs :
eater work than ever. To theI
convention of next
ay is to be presented petltionI
gned by a million men and women|
yer n years Of age asking that the :
ord male be expunged from the
At any rate, that isl ,,
le work planned by these two,
lends. New York Sun.