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Show FAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY lard became tli tuusl powerful ffiKltie for temperance in the world. At tlio present moment It lim more than 17.000 lorn I unlontt. with u membership of over half a million. Mainly devoted to ptmx the cm use of temperance. Mini Willy rd nwung It Into politic! linen, encounter! nv svMitr serloue criticism hecsuse of her declaration declara-tion that votes for women would be the greatest aid possible to the enforce men t of .intlllquor lawn. Moieover, at the time of the Armenian atrocities MlH W'.lanl. then being In Europe visiting bar devoted friend. Uady Henry (Somerset, hurried to Marseilles. France, and did much to alleviate alle-viate the sufferings of the refuvees terr. In all works of good she was pie-e'nlnent. Prances WHIarrl was nothing If not practical. No one hated the I'mi.r traffic more than she. hut none recognised more clearly that to some extent kocIuI conditions, condi-tions, notably poverty and dread for the morrow, had much to do with keeping It alive and prosperous. She confe.-ed herself unable to determine dogmatical! whether poverty createJ drunkenness, or drunkenness poverty. Her public address? exceeded In MlfJl-her MlfJl-her those of any public speaker t'tdesa perhaps John B. Gough. .Vjoodv . ITenr Ward Beecher. Between ISTs and her death she addressed audiences in cverv town of lo.ooo Inhabitants or moie. covering cov-ering all the Mates and msn foreign countries. So busy a brain in a frail Ikm1 could but burn Itself out Broke down nei -vously and physhallv. he planned to go to Europe In 1898. Her Journiv reached only as far as Npw York, where, on Tehruary 17 of that year, tli. Ian! sum mons ram.. With the words "Host heu-llful heu-llful It Is to he with God" he pus.-1 away. FRANCES E. WILLARD, 1839 1898. (Copvrlghl. 1912, by Willis J. Abbot ) In the statuary hall of the house of representatives rep-resentatives at Washington, termed by some the chamber of horrors because ot the admittedly Infeflor quality of the statues, there stands the marble effigy of hut one woman Frances E. Wlllard. long the dominating force of the Woman s Christian Temperance union. The method by which these statues are selected gives special importance to each. H pairs for the installation of two statues is assigned to eacli state. Most have utilised It to secure Immortality for military heroes, s few have put forward their cltlsens who in civil life fought for good government and the right of the people; Illinois alone presents the statue of a woman who fought for good government and right living liv-ing and was ever the foe of corruption, whether social or political. Frances E. Wlllard. before her death, msde the temperance movement practical, practi-cal, and Incidentally she made of what was then the little town of Evanston, just outside of Chicago, a Mecca for all who believed In practical social reform. Born In 1&3S. her life's span extended to 1898. not a long one. but filled with useful service. ser-vice. Her early days were marked by that simplicity and intellectual environment that seldom come to the child of today. After her birth her parents, who were educated people of English lineage, moved to Oberlln. C, and enrolled themselves In that college which has perhaps been the greatest foroe for real progress of any educational Institution. Too young to profit directly by the college teachings, the child profited indirectly. About this time the father, restless by nature, purchased pur-chased three prairie schooners and moved westward. Chicago was examined and dismissed as hopeless, and the family passed on to Janesvllle. Wis., where the girl was given the education In English poetry, prose, and history gathered up by the parents In their four years st Oberlln. At 17 Frances went to Milwaukee Milwau-kee Female college, and later completed her education at the Northwestern Female Fe-male college at Evanston, III. At the age of 21 she became a school teacher, that occupation which hss been the stepping stone to so many lofty careers In the l'nited States. From public pub-lic schools to the presidency of the woman's wom-an's college at Evanston her way wss marked by repeated successes. But it was not until she was 35 yesrs old thst she found her rest Ufework, Then, under the Influence of Neal Dow, Mary A. Llv-ermore. Llv-ermore. and Lillian M. K. Stevens, she took up the fight upon liquor. The National Na-tional union was the original name of the organization which later became the Woman's Chrlstisn Temperance union and In the service of which Miss Wlllard ended her life. Doubtless Neat Dow and Mrs. Liver-more Liver-more Influenced her much, but from her earliest days she had been taught to hate all alcohol. In the family Bible appeared this pledge In doggerel signed by father, mother, and the three children: A pledge we make no wine to take. Nor brandy red that turns the head. Nor fiery rum that ruins home. Nor whisky hot that makes the sot. Nor brewer's beer, for that we fear. And cider, too, will never do To quench our thirst we'll always bring Cold water from the well or spring: So here we pledge perpetual hate To sll that ran Intoxicate. The orrpnizatlon V u 1 . t up j Mim '' j |
