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Show 197 control. She has not only the grace and presence of a woman of the world, but something far better and higher; she was filled on each occasion when she was brought before the public with the sweet influence of that good Spirit which glorifies even the lowest of us. It shone around her continually, and Dr. Shipp and I, who slept together, used to say to each other how glad we were that we had such a woman there as our representative.30 On the evening scheduled for the reading of papers by Relief Society delegates, Ellis read hers on "Heredity." Of it, Susa said, "It was a good paper and received much applause. The last paper of our session, however, was Sister Sarah M. Kimball's on the "Sixth Sense." Perhaps only a Susa could unhesitatingly print her own good/better/best ratings of the sisters' performances. Yet she fairmindedly acknowledged what the crowd rated best: Aunt Emmeline's "Forty Years in the Great Salt Lake Valley." "This paper," she said, "was of intense interest to those present, for it was the only one which had any distinctive features of Mormonism about it, and of course there is an eager curiosity out there about anything pertaining to Mormonism." The Press Club of Washington, in which they held membership through the Salt Lake chapter, met on Friday evening of the second week and heard previously-requested speeches by Ellis, "Aunt Emmeline," and Susa. Their welcome by the club was so genuinely warm and friendly that Susa said it "was worth going across the country to receive." Invitations to clubs, receptions, dinners, and luncheons were so numerous that some had to be passed over. Candid to a fault |