El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25
For the Better Half

Written for the HERALD.

S~~~~ 900
1t is definitely stated that the Equal
Suffragists' Aunt Susan-Miss Susan
B. Anthony-is to resign at the neH'
convention of the association wnicn
will be in February. Miss Anthony 10
nearly eighty years old and Is deslrous
of being about q task she has SET lor
herself-to raise a fund OF hall MIL
lion dollars which shall be per
manent sum for the support ana 1ur-
therapce Of the cause.
For three score years or more MISS
Anthony has worked unwearyingiy ana
uudismayed to secure equal rights for
women. In that time she has gather
ed about her band of'devoted women
and an enormous association OF WORK
ers, and has won for herself audiences
of men who respect her opinion.
When she began her crusade it was
much more difficult than nowadays
when we have become used to the no.
ton of woman having worlds work
outside of her house work to do.
Miss Anthony has just returned
from her trip to London where she
took part in the international conVen-
ton of woman's clubs. While she was
In England she found herself and her
party were to be the honored guests OF
noble famiiies-and it ia the same
when the association has it's conven-
tions in Washington. The social lead
ers vie with each other in attention to
her and her fellow workers.
Not many years ago nothing was too
violent or ugly for many non-sympa-
thizers to say of women who publicly
advocated that women should vote.
Today half the world believes with
:'AuntSussn's" party and the other half
respects the claim and the women who
work for it. Time WAS when women
who advocated equal suffrage were Of
ten classed with women OF loose
morsls-now it would shock one to hear
the many earnest women OF our land so
insulted. The tide has turned. There
will be hosts yet who are directly op
posed to the idea but very few who re-
vile it unlimitedly.
Miss Anthony regretsihaving to re-
sign the presidency of the association
and the association. knows'thst 1t Will
never have another Aunt Susan.
There are plenty of other'women who
are skilful parliamentarians, and per-
fectly capable of being chief executive
of the organization, but Miss Anthony
has auntied it from its infancy, has
petted, scolded, and fused over 1t with
the gentle tyranny of q good aunt She
has rebuked It firmly and sternly when
it erred, laughed it into good humor
over little difficulties and turned away
from big defeats with joke that re-
newed hopefulness and energy among
the workers. She presides over the
now as calmly and unex- !
citedly as though she and her next
door neighbor were only having lit !
tie gossip over their knitting.
She has always about her an old
homely atmosphere and is
one of the most eternally feminine
women that ever lived. She is always
the same, her gray hair is smoothed
down over her, ears as she has
worn it for q half century or more, her
eyes are keen and yet bright and
kindly, her tightly closed mouths al
ways ready for smile, but her mouth
and chingdo not deny that she is firm
If purpose and.one is not surprised to
know thatsber history is of long stub
porn fight for what she believes Ia
light.
She always wears black silk frocks
If the finest. material and severest cut
With a bit of.finesl lace at her throat, and
he inevitable little red shawl that
he wears over her shoulders completes
he picture. No convention is held
Without her little red shawl land who
,ver has loved an auntie' iout In the
who makes. especially good
and exacts that one shall
lick up Q basket full of chips every
thinks of her when he sees
Miss sAnthony. She reminds one OF
whitoomb Riley's poem, "Out to old
Aunt Mary's."
AS to Iher parliamentary ability, the
of an opera house full OF
women would under
her guidance 60 on with q proper dis
,ussion of the various measures, with
many laughs over the world and all,
put with none of the long wrangling
luarreling, fearful delsys.that charac-
;erize other big conventions of women
it will be denied-of men.
Though Miss Anthony has worked
10 hard for equal rights for women
which che has crystalized into an ap-
peal for the vote-yet she herself Is