| Show MISS ANTHONY WILL RESIGN Suffrage Leader to Retire as Pros dent of N National Association AI EiGHT YI AnS OF AGE Sho to 10 OIlier CA CArrer reci Close New Nel York Feb 1 Susan B Anthony line arrived In to make preparation for tor the Ito annual convention of the tho National Womans Suffrage association which opens there next week It wIll be a associated with two Interesting occurrences In the ute life ot of 1 Miss lIss celebration of t ther her eightieth birthday and her lion ns as p lelent The first will be made modI n a great festivity by friends of th hiss suffrage lead leader or The Tho second will cause universal regret sorrow though It Is MIss lIss Anthony herself herselt who 10 earnestly desIres to lay down tie gavel It la Is no question ot of failing vIgor mental or for tor Susan II D Anthony never looked better bollt lit In her life lite Active ot of step alert and really of at retaining the ho forceful char of her strong Individuality she would for tor a womAn of sixty any day There la is no sign of fifty years yean hard steady work full tull ot of doubt ills 1111 I and On the contrary ho io is III and hope hopeful hopeful ful and very well For years elu Miss Anthony h has s wielded the gAvel In the first years all as Vice Ice president acting In the nb ab absence sence of Airs Stanton time the president and later whets elected to succeed Mrs Mr Stanton Stallion Miss Anthony says she ho line hns other work vork to elo do before on beyond the river and there therefore foro desires herself to place the gavel In younger hands and encourage the younger element to Idad In work She Sho does not specifY the other work Tork but It Is understood It includes the hIstory ot of suffrage from the beginning In ISIS 1848 to 1900 I 1 do donol donot not nol step elep down and out Miss MIllS Anthony Anthon said sad I go up from fifty years work without pay to on full tull pay You know I have hao m my nn an nutty nulty given mu mo by friends five years ao ago Mr sIster has her small email Income and In our old Rochester r home we shall very cr comfortably There I shall have hae tIme tho leisure to finish my life lite work vork Miss lIs Anthony Anthon believes that In this she will do moro more for tor the cause than to togo togo go on running the machine What Whatever ever eer preference she may feel In the choice of her successor she Iho Is not milk mak In lug an any In favor ot of nn any candidate At Atthe the 1 same time she says lIua that the dont donl oJ the tho National Woman Suffrage should bo be n a woman ot of brains leisure money and other to presIde over oer IL a great body of women time and means to 10 devote to time Ule work and freedom from rom domestic duties dUlles It is III said Billet that Mrs Mra Carrie Chapman Call Catt of New NewYork York II Is the most available candidate combining all these requirements In lh lip number of d delegates legale New York Is the banner Janner State Stale send sending In to lo the |
