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But by the time I came into it they had just begun to attach a newer breed. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch was a kind of a bridge. Her mother had been one of the old suffragists, but also from a very fine and distinguished family. Harriet Stanton had been brought up on it. But still she had married well. She was very stylish and good looking. She had a flair and a style that these three older ladies didn't have.

By the time that I came into it people like Vira Whitehouse were already in it. She was Mrs. Norman Whitehouse. Harriet Burton Laidlaw (Mrs. James L. Laidlaw) was also in it. She always used her husband's name very loyally. She was a wonderful person. Mrs. Whitehouse and Mrs. Laidlaw were really great beauties. They were ten or fifteen years older than I was, but had arrived when we were still coming up. They were well married, were rich and they were stylish. People who were well placed and could batter their way into anybody's office or anybody's living room were just coming into the suffrage movement.

It was just about that time that I joined. They were already in it. What they were doing, I don't know. They were the heads of divisions. Organizing was going on.

One of the recruits of about my day was Inez Milholland. She's been dead many, many years. She died young, lovely and greatly admired. Her father was a New York lawyer. Her