Stanton loyally
drafted it for her.
Mrs. Stanton was the most brilliant conversa-
tionalist I have ever known; and the best talk I
have heard anywhere was that to which I used to
listen in the home of Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne,
in Auburn, New York, when Mrs. Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, Emily Howland, Elizabeth Smith
Miller, Ida Husted Harper, Miss Mills, and I were
gathered there for our occasional week-end visits.
Mrs. Osborne inherited her suffrage sympathies, for
she was the daughter of Martha Wright, who, with
Mrs. Stanton and Lucretia Mott, called the first
suffrage convention in Seneca Falls, New York. I
must add in passing that her son, Thomas Mott
Osborne, who is doing such admirable work in
prison reform at Sing Sing, has shown himself worthy
of the gifted and high-minded mother who gave him
to the world.
Most of the conversation in Mrs. Osborne's home
was contributed by Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony,
while the rest of us sat, as it were, at their feet.
Many human and feminine touches brightened the
lofty discussions that were constantly going on, and
the varied characteristics of our leaders cropped up
in amusing fashion. Mrs. Stanton, for example, was
rarely accurate in giving figures or dates, while Miss
Anthony was always very exact in such matters.
She frequently corrected Mrs. Stanton's statements,
and Mrs. Stanton usually took the interruption in
the best possible spirit, promptly admitting that
``Aunt Susan'' knew best.
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