Show ANNA DICKINSON flung a bombshell bomb-shell into the camp of the Womans i Christian Temperance Union in see sion At Ocean Grove N J the other day A question What can be done to reclaim fallen women was answered by a Mrs Hunt who alleged that women have lets power I of recuperation than men and when they tall in most cases fall beyond reclamation Previous speakers had all taken ground unfavorable to the ability or expediency of women reforming re-forming other women Finally the impetuous Anna could keep her seat in the hall no longer She arose and in her peculiarly vigorous style piled up some solid ckutoks of commonsense common-sense for her sisters to contemplate She said I am not a temperance advocate but I can tell you that womans proper work is with her sisters sis-ters and not with men You fail where you can do the most The woman who has nothing to do the giddy fashionable creature who learns to tipple with refinement the woman who has too much to do your laundress who does a days work getting her husbands breakfast and attending to her children before she comes in the morning these as well as the woman who drinks to drown despair are the ones who need but do not receive your ministrations You raise the man but you spurn your fellowwoman beneath your feet I |