In this ``Aunt Susan'' artlessly joined,
clapping her hands as hard as she could. ``This is
all for you, Aunt Susan,'' I whispered, ``so it isn't
your time to applaud.''
``Aunt Susan'' continued to clap. ``Nonsense,''
she said, briskly. ``It's not for me. It's for the
Cause--the Cause!''
Miss Anthony told me in 1904 that she regarded
her reception in Berlin, during the meeting of the
International Council of Women that year, as the
climax of her career. She said it after the unex-
pected and wonderful ovation she had received from
the German people, and certainly throughout her
inspiring life nothing had happened that moved her
more deeply.
For some time Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of
whose splendid work for the Cause I shall later have
more to say, had cherished the plan of forming an
International Suffrage Alliance. She believed the
time had come when the suffragists of the entire
world could meet to their common benefit; and Miss
Anthony, always Mrs. Catt's devoted friend and ad-
mirer, agreed with her. A committee was appointed
to meet in Berlin in 1904, just before the meeting
of the International Council of Women, and Miss
Anthony was appointed chairman of the committee.
At first the plan of the committee was not welcomed
by the International Council; there was even a sus-
picion that its purpose was to start a rival organiza-
tion. But it met, a constitution was framed, and
officers were elected, Mrs.
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