The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-27
IN HONOR OF MISS ANTHONY'S
sOrH BIRTHDAY,

To celebrate adequately the four score
years Of their wonderful leader, Susan B.
Anthony, would be beyond the efforts of
the association Of which she 10 the active
and energetic president nevertheless this
is exaolty what the American Women
Suffrage Association will endeavor TO do
on February 18Th next.
As Mas Anthony could not herself
take any part In such preparation tine
took the matter into Its own hands and
appointed special birthday celebration
committee, four members OF which are
selected from the board Of the assooia-
tion, and seven other women Interested,
Of course, In the great cause Of which
Miss Anthony has for 30 many years been
the illustrious leader. The chairman is
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait; secretary.
Rachael Foster Avery; the other mem.
bers are Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Pa. ;
Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio; May Wright
Sewall, Indiana; Mary b. Clay, Ken
tucky; Emily N. Gross, Illinois; Mrs.
Senator Burrows. Michigan: Mrs. Sena-
tor Warren. Wyoming; Lucy L. Anthony,
Pa. and Harriet Stanton Blatoh OF Eng
land.
The annual convention Of the Suffrage
Association has been arranged for ths
week Immediately preceding the 10th OF
February. SO that tis expected that many
of those who 60 to Washington, d. O.,
flor 1t Is at the Nations capitol the oels-
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eightieth birthday Of their leader.
from three to I've o'clock that day. In
the Lafayette. Opera house, which Is the
handsomest auditorium in Washington,
at meeting open to the general public,
noted women, representing all phases
of women's work and experience, will
present to Miss Anthony their greetings,
and express their sense OF recognition OF
what her lAbors have meant to their re-
speotive efforts. 1hsre are no women to-
day, no matter what their petition, who
have touched any OF the really vital Is
sues of living. who have not been helped
to some degree by the efforts Of Miss An
thony and her great sscompsers; NO one
recognizes more fully than Miss Anthony
herself, what Q work 1t has bsen, nor
worked and sacrificed to Its success, At
this day partial success only, but one
which is surely prophecy OF complete
triumph early In the coming century.
In the evening there will be card re-
ception for Miss Anthony, at which she
will receive with some members OF the
Birthday Committee. The occasion will
be one OF especial interest In several WAYS
which the committee at present refuses
to divulge. Evidently the women who
composs 10 are determined to disprove
the old saying thst women can OF kssp
q secret.
Such an occasion ought to offer Ia
thousands OF women who have reached
the point Of realizing even in a limited
degree, what toll and sacrifice have been
necessary to help them to the points Of
vantage which they occupy today. an op.
port unity to testify BY their prsssucs
their gratitude to Miss Anthony and hsl
fellow workers in the early days, for she
will be surrounded by the Pioneers OF the
cause to which she has given her life.
All have worked nobly and well for the
right as God has given them to see the
right; all deserve recognition at the
hands Of the younger generation Of WON.
en-; but to Miss Anthony, as to almost nc
other, have gone out the hearts OF her as
socistes; they to only honor her, they
love her deeply, and as her whole life has
been full Of love toward all humanity bur
especially towArde all women, so the key.
note Of her s0th birthday celebration will
be not honor, not gratitude, but love.
RACHAEL FOSTER AVERY.
Dor. Secretary.