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Show f ' PAULINE WRIGHT DAVIS. A Reminiscence from the Pen of Llllle i Devereux Blake. , ! ; New York, Oct. 16. Of an individual type was Pauline Wright Davis, one of the early leaders of the women's suffrage movement a woman of birth and breed- ing, gentle in manners and quiet in j speech. Iler earliest efforts were direct- ' ed to the instruction of women in phy siology, a subject of which they were then wofully ignorant She married Mr. Thomas W. Davis, a man of wealth ; and position, and made her home in a . fecautiful country swit near Providence, ; 11. L ! For several years she edited The Una, a paper devoted to the cause of woman suffrage, besides contributing largely to i reform publications. She was active in j, arranging campaigns and getting up Ij conventions, and was an admirable pre- aiding officer. Without possessing eloquence, elo-quence, her addresses commanded atten-s atten-s . tion from their ability. But, after all, her best aid to the cause was herself. Her charm of manner, her ! dainty refinement, perpetually contra- i ! dieted the assertion tliut the leaders of our movement were all coarse viragos. As I remember Mrs. Davis, she was a beautiful eld lady with delicate feat-i feat-i ores, snow white hair and blue eyes. A prominent literary man told me that i, he once stood looking at her with adini- I ration, and finally said, "Do you know i , that yoa are a very handsome woman?" ' She smiled and replied: "Well, perhaps j I have a right to be. In my youth 1 was S only ordinary looking, in middle age I i ; was positively plain; it is only fair if ! ; old age has at last brought me some j 4 measure of beauty." , j |