Evening star., 1923-01-25
PORTRAIT RECALLS
SUFFRAGE LEADER
Picture of Mrs. Mott Will Be
Presented to Smithsonian
Institution.

Civil Service Commissioner Helen
Gardner will present a portrait of Lu-
cretia Mott tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock to the Smithsonian Institution. to
be added to the exhibit of relics of the
long hight for woman suffrage. Nothing
can be added to the collection except by
the authority of Mrs. Gardner or of
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, and as Mrs
Gait is in South America it was to the
commissioner that the National League
of Woman Voters referred the portrait
when its owner brought it to Mrs. Maud
Wood Park, league president, for per-
manent housing
Commissioner Gardner took the hest
possible way of assuring herself of tbs
authenticity of the portrait.
VINO is that?" she asked of Miss
MARY Garrett Hay, showing it.
Lucretia Mott" said Miss Hay.
Desk Hoax Recalled.
1t Is necessary that confirmation nj
every relic be secured, for one or
Sahlzat ton of women was BETRAYED
INTO photographfng a desk and an
Hounclns 1t in the newspapers as
susan b. Anthony'S. when all suffrage
women of Miss Anthony's time knew
mat In her published will she left the
oesk she had worked on for so MANY
years T. Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton
VINO mas never let it go out of her
possession
The newly acquired portrait of Mrs
l.ucretia Mott was given nv her to
the benjamin Townsend family Of
New Srlghton. Pa. who were her
oIten-Vlsited friends, and Hicksites
as she herselt was. 1t was brought
10 the headquarters of the National
league of Women Voters by Mrs
Etta r. Winter of Casper. Wyo
wldow of Rev. Benjamin Beddison Win
rer. great-grandson of Benjamin
The portrait is a silhouette of an
unusual kind. made not by cutting
the paper, but by scorching the like
ness on 1t, and neither the artist nor
me cate of the making is known.
NneIia Nnt conn Mott, who was born in
Nantucket in 1898, is not known
10 nave been in Pennsylvania before
her marriage to James Mott in her
tlghteenth year. The portrait per
laps oates from the early years of
her preaching in Friends Meeting.
which began in 1918, and took her
throughout PENNSYLVANIA. virginia
Maryland and New England. When
me Silhouette descended to Mr.. Win
;nsido ;ns A. 1aa tb oeen kept for many years
Essay on Man" published at Poupbo
Eeepsie in 1916 by Paraclete Potter
sno perhaps the book has always been
It's resting place
Hears NapOleOn's Name,
That would make the date of In
creuaS S giving it to the Townsends
somewhere between 1916 and 1924. for
on the first page Of the book is the
name of III. Fl. Greene, and the date.
January 4, 1924. The Pugh name on
the inside of the first cover is inter
esttng. for Sarah Pugh attended the
hrst woman's rights convention
An odd circumstance is that across
the lower part Of the silhouette is
written Napoleon Buonaparte" The
writing bears a marked resemblance
to Lucretia'S own. No family tradf-
tion accounts for the name. but il is
possible that Lucretia herself. struck
by resemblance in the outline of the
high-set Quaker cap to Napoleon's
famous chapeau. wrote the name in
one of those moments of gentle fun.
which were characteristic of her If
this is true, It would seem to put the
giving of the picture 1t a date earlier
than 1921, in spite of II. H. Greene.
for Lucretia would never have Knocked
at Napoleon after his death at St.
Helena.