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post Office as revolutionary, and Miss An
thony soon got the letter back with the
announcement hat the inscription was
contrary To the Prussian law. Miss An
thony once told an acquaintance that, had
she not been a guest OF the legation, she
probably wopld have been locked up AS a
Nihilist or q socialist.
Miss Anthony continued to lecture and
address meetings in the cause Of ONE
until u few months ago when illness made
II impossible for her to leave her home In
Rochester. She did not devote all of her
energies to the question Of voting, either.
Coeducation was one of the things which
interested her greatly, and much Of her
time and considerable of her money were
spent in aiding colleges in which women
spicuous figure whenever a delegation OF
wome went to Washington to impress
their ideas upon Congress and at all Of the
conventions OF the woman suffra gists she
was the acknowledged leader,
Even after she passed the age of so she
continued her activity and her brain seemed
to be as clear as ever. She was wonder
fully alert, and at the age of "a she went
abroad, attended a convention and made
an extended tour in the suffrage cause.
At that time she was received, with twenty
one other delegates to the convention, by
the Empress OF Germany and was told by
the Empress:
You are my special guest on this occa-
sion"
Part of her work of late years consisted
of placing suffrage literature in colleges
and libraries where it would do the most
good.
Miss Anthony, with Mrs. Ida Husted
Harper, was author Of a"History Of Woman
Suffrage, a four volume work. At first the
college, We're not anxious to add it to their
shelves but Miss Anthony kept pushing
1t and other volumes on the same subject.
In fifteen years she placed books in l 200
Libraries at her own expense. and then
requests and checks for her book began
Congressional Library at Washington a
library Of 200 books on equality, in cele-
bration of her eighty-third birthday.
Miss Anthony had peculiar ideas about
marriage. These were once told by Mrs.
Harper, who worked with her on a biog-
raphy of Miss Anthony.
she believes that a woman should not
marry until after she is 80 and has fitted
herself for a public career said Mrs.
Harper. Think that Miss Anthony would
have married If she had met a man that
she loved. l find among her letters many
references to offers Of marriage, but | think
the reason she never married is that she
never loved a man. She believes in mar
riage for love
Miss Anthony lived with her sister Mary,
in the home which her father built in Roch-
ester, supporting herself upon the money
she made by lecturing and that which
was given to her or left to her by friends
of the cause TO which she devoted her life.
Miss Anthony once discussed her financial
affairs in this way;
Il was in the newspaper business once.
II was in Chicago, II II was a woman's
rights paper. ] lost all the money l had
saved while teaching school, and 10000
besides. Then | accepted the offer of a
lecture bureau, and in six years l had paid
up the SIC, 600 debt. Then | had a jubilee,
and in the six years that followed | made
money enough to live on, and | am living
on it yet. | can get $50 or 500 u night to
lecture, and feel that the cause needs me,
so I am devoting my time and energies to
that cause"