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Show ) SU5AN B. ANTHONY TALKS OF HEiVLIFE. Miss Susan B. Anthony, who, for. more W half a fentury, has led the. intellectual women of the country in their battle for civic . and private emancipation and equality with men, is well pleased as t '. she looks back through the vista of years and calmly considers what , v she has accomplished. i Althought 83 years of age; Miss Anthony doe not strike one as 1 being an 'old woman" in the strict acceptance of that term. She is i Id In years, it is true, but her handshake is still firm and her calm, ! Intellectual face which irresistibly reminds the observer of the historical his-torical patriots of this country-and her abundant white hair make 1- :Tier look like a woman of 50. , . ." ' .Interviewed recently,. Miss Anthony said: "Looking back j : through the -eighty-five years of my life, more especially the fifty- ' j five years of it which have been actively -devoted to. the woman's j i cause, I can say that were it all to do again I should cheerfully and j : gratefully follow the same path. ". "All our defeats have been glorious victories, in that the cause of woman has never been presented to the voters of the country -without winning very many of them. We never lose'. We are always al-ways progressing." , . ', , . . ... ; i' How different are the expressions of Miss Anthony to that of v Senator Thomas B. Tlatt, who said the other day: "Looking back over my. life I see triumphs and defeats, much work, many years, ' months and days and none of them worth the while. Had I to do Vi all over I should refrain." ' : ' ' j " v |