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446 FAMOUS LIVING AMERICANS Committee on Suffrage and Bights of Citizenship in the Inter- national Council of Women, the largest and most important organization of women in the world. From her first meeting with Miss Susan B. Anthony, she was one of her closest and most trusted friends. They trav- eled in many campaigns together. Miss Shaw always taking upon herself the hardest part of the work and shielding Miss Anthony in every possible manner. Miss Shaw said of her at a gathering: ^^I believe that if the principles which she ad- vocates, the ideals for which she stands were embodied in all womanhood we would have a motherhood diviner than any this world has ever known, a motherhood such as God had in his thought when he created woman to be the mother of the race. ' ' As Miss Anthony grew less able to stand the fatigue of a long speech she would often abruptly call on Miss Shaw to finish it for her. The unity of thought between them made this easily possible. All during her life Miss Shaw had had a craving for a home of her own. As a young teacher she had taught and ' 'boarded round"; when she was older she became an itinerant preacher and ** boarded round"; when she became a public lecturer on Temperance, Woman Suffrage, and kindred reforms, she lec- tured and ** boarded round." After much saving and econ- omy, however, it became her good fortune to have a home of her own and she is very grateful and happy. While her work takes her away much of the time, the thought of having a rest- ful home to return to makes her work less fatiguing. She loves trees and has a pine grove of nearly two hundred trees, most of which she planted herself. When returning from abroad the greatest treasure she brings from the old country will be some pines, daisies, or ivy, and on the voyage no steward or porter is allowed to carry this precious package for her. Returning from her trip to Hungary in 1913 she brought eighteen young cedar trees from the Hy Tatra moun- tains and they are now flourishing in the gjove which she calls her Forest of Arden. Young people are very fond of her and know no greater pleasure than listening to her stories of her experiences while