} Auditors

Mrs. Walter McNabb Miller, of Missouri }
In a book of this size, and covering the details

of my own life as well as the development of the
great Cause, it is, of course, impossible to mention

by name each woman who has worked for us--
though, indeed, I would like to make a roll of honor

and give them all their due. In looking back I am sur-
prised to see how little I have said about many women

with whom I have worked most closely--Rachel
Foster Avery, for example, with whom I lived happily

for several years; Ida Husted Harper, the historian
of the suffragemovement and the biographer of Miss

Anthony, with whom I made many delightful voy-
ages to Europe; Alice Stone Blackwell, Rev. Mary

Saffard, Jane Addams, Katharine Waugh McCul-
lough, Ella Stewart, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, Mrs.

Mary S. Sperry, Mary Cogshall, Florence Kelly,
Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid and Mrs. Norman White-

house (to mention only two of the younger ``live
wires'' in our New York work), Sophonisba Breck-

enridge, Mrs. Clara B. Arthur, Rev. Caroline Bart-
lett Crane, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. Raymond

Brown, the splendidlyexecutive president of our
New York State Suffrage Association, and my bene-

factress, Mrs. George Howard Lewis of Buffalo. To
all of them, and to thousands of others, I make my

grateful acknowledgment of indebtedness for friend-
ship and for help.

XVI
COUNCIL EPISODES

I have said much of the interest attending the
international meetings held in Chicago, London,

Berlin, and Stockholm. That I have said less about
those in Copenhagen, Geneva, The Hague, Budapest,

and other cities does not mean that these were less
important, and certainly the wonderful women

leaders of Europe who made them so brilliant must
not be passed over in silence.

First, however, the difference between the Suf-
frage Alliance meetings and the International Coun-

cil meetings should be explained. The Council
meetings are made up of societies from the various

nations which are auxiliary to the International
Council--these societies representing all lines of

women's activities, whether educational, industrial,
or social, while the membership, including more

than eleven million women, represents probably the
largest organization of women in the world. The

International Suffrage Alliance represents the suf-
frage interest primarily, whereas the International

Council has only a suffrage department. So popu-
lar did this International Alliance become after its

formation in Berlin by Mrs. Catt, in 1904, that at
the Copenhagen meeting, only three years later,

more than sixteen different nations were represented
by regular delegates.

It was unfortunate, therefore, that I chose this
occasion to make a spectacular personal failure in

the pulpit. I had been invited to preach the con-
vention sermon, and for the first time in my life

I had an interpreter. Few experiences, I believe,
can be more unpleasant than to stand up in a pul-

pit, utter a remark, and then wait patiently while it
is repeated in a tongue one does not understand, by

a man who is putting its gist in his own words and
quite possibly giving it his own interpretative twist.

I was very unhappy, and I fear I showed it, for I
felt, as I looked at the faces of those friends who

understood Danish, that they were not getting what
I was giving them. Nor were they, for I afterward

learned that the interpreter, a good orthodox
brother, had given the sermon an ultra-orthodox

bias which those who knew my creed certainly did
not recognize. The whole experience greatly dis-

heartened me, but no doubt it was good for my
soul.

During the Copenhagen meeting we were given
a banquet by the City Council, and in the course of

his speech of welcome one of the city fathers airily
remarked that he hoped on our next visit to Copen-

hagen there would be women members in the Council
to receive us. At the time this seemed merely a

pleasant jest, but two years from that day a bill
was enacted by Parliament granting municipal suf-

frage to the women of Denmark, and seven women
were elected to the City Council of Copenhagen.

So rapidly does the woman suffragemovement grow
in these inspiring days!

Recalling the International Council of 1899 in
London, one of my most vivid pictures has Queen

Victoria for its central figure. The English court
was in mourning at the time and no public audiences

were being held; but we were invited to Windsor
with the understanding that, although the Queen

could not formally receive us, she would pass
through our lines, receiving Lady Aberdeen and

giving the rest of us an opportunity to courtesy
and obtain Her Majesty's recognition of the Cause.

The Queen arranged with her chamberlain that we
should be given tea and a collation; but before this

refreshment was served, indeed immediately after
our arrival, she entered her familiar little pony-cart

and was driven slowly along lines of bowing women
who must have looked like a wheat-field in a high

wind.
Among us was a group of Indian women, and

these, dressed in their native costumes, contributed
a picturesque bit of brilliant color to the scene as

they deeply salaamed. They arrested the eye of
the Queen, who stopped and spoke a few cordial

words to them. This gave the rest of us an excellent
opportunity to observe her closely, and I admit that

my English blood stirred in me suddenly and loyally
as I studied the plump little figure. She was dressed

entirely and very simply in black, with a quaint
flat black hat and a black cape. The only bit

of color about her was a black-and-white parasol
with a gold handle. It was, however, her face which

held me, for it gave me a wholly different impression
of the Queen from those I had received from her

photographs. Her pictured eyes were always rather
cold, and her pictured face rather haughty; but there

was a very sweet and winningsoftness in the eyes
she turned upon the Indian women, and her whole

expression was unexpectedly gentle and benignant.
Behind her, as a personal attendant, strode an

enormous East-Indian in full native costume, and
closely surrounding her were gentlemen of her house-

hold, each in uniform.