Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-12
ANTHONY PORTRAIT
PRESENTED VOTERS
Incidents in Life of Pioneer
Feminist Are Recalled
by Associates.

Incidents in the life of Susan B. An
thony, pioneer figure in the suffragist
movement, were related by women who
knew her in the Informal ceremonies
attending the presentation late yester-
day of the portrait of Miss Anthony to
the National League of Women Voters
by the Susan B. Anthony Foundation.
The portrait, the work of Jerome K.
Uhl, a Washington artist, has been
hanging in the headquarters of the Ma
tional League Of Women Voters at 532
Seventeenth street for some time, but
the presentation yesterday marked the
official transfer Of the title to the life
size canvas.
Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the
National League Of Women Voters, pre-
sided over the presentation exercises
and introduced Mrs. Bertha Yoder
Werthner, president of the Susan B.
Anthony Foundation, who, with Mrs.
Anna E. Hendley, honorary president
of the foundation, made the actual pres
entation.
1t was the hope Of the Susan B. An
thony Foundation, Mrs. Werthner told
her small audience, to place the Dor
trait Of Miss Anthony in a fitting me-
moral home here where the life and
work OF the famous woman leader could
be perpetuated. That having been inn
possible, she explained, the foundation
ceased being an agency for the collec-
ton OF funds for that purpose and as
sumed its present character Of an or
ganization determined only to preserve
the memory of Miss Anthony's ambi-
lions, works and accomplishments.
Conditions Of Gift.
The portrait was given to the Ma
tlonaI League OF Women Voters, Mrs
Werthner continued. as a means of
providing for it a permanent home.
The only conditions of the gift, she
explained, are that the painting be
Kept in washington, and that II ever
Tor any reason the league finds itself
confronted with the necessity of dis
posing OF 1t, the league would return
the portrait to the foundation. The
presentation to the league, she added,
was voted by the foundations board
ana the only regret accompanying the
transfer was the admission Of aban-
donment OF the foundations original
plans to build permanent memorial
here.
Mrs. Hendley spoke after Mrs. Werth.
ner. She related briefly of incidents
connected with Miss Anthony'S at
tendance at hearings before congress
sional committees on the then proposed
amendment to grant women the vote
On one occasion, she said, the mem
bers of the committee fell asleep while
Miss Anthony was speaking and one
member, awakening with start, in
quired Of Miss Anthony how many
States were permitting their women to
vote She told of the fond hopes
which she and other women had en-
tertained for memorial building to
Miss Anthony.
ut seems a pity" Mrs. Hendley de-
clared. that with all this govern
mental building program being carried
out here in Washington, there is no
hitting memorial building to women
and, in particular, to the work which
Miss Anthony did,
She added that she hoped the
Women Voters League would some day
build such a memorial.
Miss Sherwin accepted the portrait
on behalf Of the Voters League. She
declared smilingly that the league
couldn't accept the responsibility of
erecting a building, but that 1t did
embrace the portrait with real pleasure.
Personal Incidents Recalled.
Miss Elizabeth j. HouSer, vice presi-
dent of the National League of Women
Voters and the only member of that
organization who remembered personal
contact with Miss Anthony, related in.
cidentS involving her association with
the pioneer woman leader. She told
of going to the present headquarters
building of the voters league with
Miss Anthony to meet Clara Barton,
famous nurse. Illustrating the kindli-
ness which, she said, contrasted strongly
with Miss Anthony's stage domination,
Miss Houser told Miss Anthony
tucked her in bed' when she retired
while on q visit here with the notable
suffragist. Another incident she re-
called was the time she made an apron
for Miss Anthony, only to hear the
eminent woman remark, as she exam
ined the seams; These modern girls
can't sew like the girls Of my day
could"
Miss Houser declared that the kind
Of memorial which Miss Anthony her
self would have preferred would be the
exercise Of the vote she helped so much
in getting for women.
Mrs. Ella G. Stewart recalled hearing
Miss Anthony address a group Of stu
dents while she was a senior in college.
Later, she said, she introduced Miss
Anthony at meeting in Chicago and
subsequently received friendly letters
from the well known feminist, which
she still possesses
Tea followed the. presentation exer-