The age-herald., 1899-07-12
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London Papers Go Wild
Over Miss Anthony

Over Miss Anthony Although there has been so much written about American women being suppressed in London during the international con- gress, Miss Susan B. Anthony will have the satisfaction of knowing that the Lon following extract is taken from the Lon don Times:
 An immense crowd waved the white handkerchief at Miss Susan B. Anthony, the venerable Aunt Susan,' when she rose to speak in Westminster. Her topic was "Woman In Politics." of course, for when has Miss Anthony spoken on anything else during the last fifty years? And she was, as usual, clear-spoken and convincing-al- though there will always be doubters.
 The London papers are going wild over Miss Anthony, declaring her to be the most unaggressiye woman suffrag.st they ever saw. They are accustomed to the bifur- cated, loud-yoiced, strident woman of the stump, and therefore Miss Anthony's slim figure, severe face and smoothly hair are an innovation.
 Miss Anthony has visited Europe only once before, the occasion being her trip to Germany sixteen years ago. She was at that time G. As soon as she was settled on the kaisers domain she sent letter home, on the back of which she wrote, Taxation without representation is tyr amy"
 The legend fell into the hands of the German postal authorities, and Miss An thony was arrested. The charge was con- spiracy against the government. 1t took the American minister a long time to get Miss Anthony out of prison, but sine was finally set free on the police being con- vinced that she was merely ut,ering the rallying cry of her own country and not exciting the Germans against the Father land
 Miss Anthony came over this time not to fight, but to placate. Her fighting days are over; she is resting now and waiting, and, incidentally, doing the best work of her life, for she is more convincing now than she was in the bolder days.
 There are great many questions asked about Miss Anthony here, for she repre- sents an American type quite unknown in England. They ind it hard to believe from her neat figure that she was born in 4o1O, and has crossed the line into her SOth year.
 Miss Anthony is being entertained by all the lords and ladies of the United King dom. She dimes with Lady Somerset, stops over night with the Countess Aberdeen and breakfasts with her; she lunches next day with the Duchess of Sutherland, and threatens every day to call upon the Prin- cess of Wales, who is really very anxious to see the dear old lady suffragist.
 Of May Wright Sewall, the distinguished president now of the congress, a London paper tells of an interesting incident when she was called upon to exercise her author ity.
 It seems that certain delegates attended in the fashionable headgear of the hour as though they were assisting at matinee performance at a theater, and the chairwo- man was obliged to request them to remove their hats, incidentally remarking that she came from a state in which men had passed a law obliging women to take off their hats at public gatherings where a clear view added to the comfort of each person pres ent Mrs. Sewall did not express any opin- ion as to whether such a law would have
 
 therein, but she graciously expressed her approval of this piece of legislation carried out by poor blundering man, and the offend ing hats were at once removed.
 That was not the only triumph of the lady president. When she invited Mrs. Montgomery Moore to read a paper contrib uted by the president of a Massachusetts association which is opposed to woman suf- frage, the appearance of that lady was greeted with a storm of misses. Evidently the majority of the delegates had come not to debate, but to be confirmed in their faith, and chafed to see any of their sisters tame ly submissive under the yoke of bondage Hence the chairwoman administered a grave rebuke, and brought the demonstra- tors back to order by reminding them that while they were under no obligation to come to the meeting, if they attended they were expectd to show courtesy to the opin- ions of their opponents.