The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11
TWO GRAND OLD WOMEN.
MISS SUSAN ID. ANTHONY EXPRESSES
HER OPINION OF VICTORIA.

mas Always Felt Close Association
Name Was Ever "a Household Word
in the Anthony FamiIy-Admires
the Royal Smile and Fresh Pink
Complexion at Eighty Years of
Age-NIiss Anthony Talks About
Her Afternoon Tea at Windsor.
Respects the Queen as Having
Ability of the Highest Order ana
Regrets Her Attitude on the Irish
and Suffrage Questions.
By Ida Hustled Harper.
New York, Feb. 9.-Miss Susan B. An
thony at her pleasant home in Rochester,
N. Y, is busily engaged in preparing for
the thirty-second annual suffrage con-
vention, which is to be held in Washing
ton next month. Her duties are even
more arduous than. usual, as she is ar
ranging to transfer the management of the
National Association to her successor, who
will be elected at the February meeting.
The cozy study is almost filed with the
piles of books, pamphlets, speeches. con-
gresslonal reports and other documents
which the great reformer so often needs
in her work, and the big desk fairly groans
with its weight of letters. circulars and
newspaper clippings. to which are added
New Years souvenirs that have just come
from all parts of the world. She lays
down her pen, however, with her accus-
toned cheerfulness, and wheels her chair
around in front OF the blazing gas logs.
4 furious snowstorm RACES without, in
striking contrast to the notable scene of
last summer, which she is asked to de-
scribe
In referring to Queen Victoria's receiv-
ing the International Council of Women
last summer in London Miss Anthony
said: English women told me the invi-
tadon to Windsor was an indorsement
such as never before had been given by
the Queen to any organization whose pur-
pose was to enlarge the sphere of woman
Yes, l think IL was an event of marked
significance, especially the hospitality of
entertaining us at tea in one of the most
beautiful halls of her magnificent home,
attended by her own servants in the royal
livery The Queen is a close student of
public questions, very conservative in
speech and action, and discriminates care
fully in the people and the affairs TO which
she gives her personal sanction. This con-
eress, representing a score of nationah-
ties, stood strongly and Enthusiastically for
the new era in womanhood. These were
the uncompromising advocates of the
highest education, of the opening of all
avenues of employment, including the.pro-
LESSONS, and of the franchise on the same
terms as for men. The Queen was fully
cognizant of all this, and her gracious and
kindly reception cannot have any other
h.
of this International congress of women
'It was the more to be valued because
on account of her advanced age, Queen
Victoria seldom receives any considerable
number of people. She is q victim of
rheumatism, which does not spare even
royalty, and walks or stands very little,
but, as she drove slowly through the court
yard in her handsome low carriage, the
ladies grouped around had ample oppor-
tunity to note her unwrinkled face, her
fresh pink complexion and the sweet
ness of her smile l was very glad to
be able to get a photograph of her exactly
as she appeared that day. Most of her
pictures have sad and rather severe ex>
preston but she seemed really happy on
this occasion to greet the leading women
of all civilized nations"
How did Her Majesty happen to receive
you?"
"Well, toward the close of the congress
L ShlO 10 It's president. Lazy AbtIu6tL
II this international council were meet
ing in Washington the women from all
the states in the Union and from every
foreign nation would want to see the
President, and he and his wife would ten
der an invitation for them to call at
the White House. All of the women here
have the same feeling toward the
Queen. Now, isn't there some power you
can invoke to get the door open? She
sold: Miss Anthony. I win try;' and went
straight away and wrote her letter of re-
quest. In answer we were. invited to
Windsor.
Il had been there sixteen years before,
but I am never specially overwhelmed
with big piles OF stone. IF I were more fe-
miliar with their stories and those of their
occupants l might he more impressed My
study of English history has been con-
fined mostly to economic conditions and
development rather than to the building
or castles and the appearance and disap-
nearence of Kings and Queens. But
there and everywhere abroad, one feels
all the time that he is treading on the
ground which has been trodden by count
less ages"
Good Enough for a Queen.
Now, as for her majesty, l thought
she was a mighty human looking woman
"a good, motherly woman. | think that
IS usually ones first impression in meet
irg royalty or nobilityAthat they are
much like other people. that is refined
and cultured people 1t was difficult to
rfalize her age. | always feel when l
meet persons who are eighty. How very
or that is" and then all of a sudden
think Why, I am eighty myself and IT
ms impossible. | had never seen the
Queen before, but | always felt close
as' ocation with her on account Of her
haing so near my own age-she was born
I'm May and | the next February. She
was married at the same time as my eld
cst sister, and the Prince of Wales was
orn about the time her first child was.
he thought of her always brings my ia
Iher back to me- She was crowned in
lail, and, as he believed strongly in equal
rights for women. II was a day of great
'eioicing for him Always after that.
whenever mother PREPARED any specially
nee dish for the table he would say, 1T
" good enough for the Queen IL he said
once he said it a thousand times We
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