| Show IV C T 17 in session toronto ont oct lg 16 ape spenial jal tag tae announcement that next jaeks convention of the worlds christian temperance union will be shorn of the presence pre senca of lady henry Somer somerset act has created considerable of a hubbub among the temperance women of the dominion who have been active in promoting the gathering and hate baye been featuring the leader of the english temperance temps rance women as the wight blight par part t le aarstad Aar star of the occasion and their chagrin is not lessened by the mystery y that surround sui sut roand round her change of plane plana according to original advises advices she wa to have sailed from england two weeks ego today to day her passage had been engaged long in advance and so little was known in england con concerning concertin cernin 9 her change in mind that abat the departing english passenger list of that date contained her name her friends here also were left several days in ignorance ot of he fat I 1 hat eh i was not en route a although il id now known that days before she should have sailed she pent a private cablegram to the headquarters in chicago intimating ti that by orders of her doctor she would be compelled to forego forea the voyage this excuse however is taken with a of 0 salt aalt in local bocal temperance ei cycles ces for months past temperance alt all over or tho united states haloe and canada have been all in of circulars and lp ip lets ileta sent out oat by the three aronel the world missionaries sion aries mary levitt elizabeth W andrew Andre wand and catherine 0 bushnell Ba bitterly denouncing lady So yom morest grest for upholding what to ie known aa a the contagious tagi diseases act in indians indiana or the government law which regulates the relation ioni of 0 the english soldiers to the native indian women also known so aa the I 1 vice license system plans had been matured for bringing up this question at the convention next week and itic it is pretty generally accepted that rather than face the storm lady So mareet merest decided to remain on the other side of the water it does not follow however that she would have received the condemnation of the gathering for among the delegates there are many talented women who have closely studied the subject and who hold firmly to the conviction that the law in question although obnoxious to many sentimental purists is nevertheless a necessity and the only barrier to tc wholesale vice and the demoralization of the british army in india |
