Show T workers TORO INTO ont oct 22 special the queen city of the dominions fairest province has baa taken her gates from their hinges and opened wide her arms to admit and embrace the tha army of temperance women omen r from the civilized countries of the c arth earth that for a week to come comeail will wil leg legislate slate in name and aaa power the words woods christ christian an Temper temperance dLce uni union m the procEed proceedings bugs will be inaugurated tomorrow mornin morning gg but for daya past delegates from home and abroad have been trooping in and this morning they are here in such numbers as to monopolize liza all the larger r and most moat of the smaller hotels to say nothing of the hundreds of private re cea chosa hospitable doors lave been opened to the women who from their own aront of cf view are endeavor 1 ing to promote reforms that will enable them to leave the world as peabody once onca put it a little better than they found foun dit it the executive committee of the worlds organization is ia holding an allday session at the headquarters on elm street tonight there will te be a banquet under the auspices of the do dominion min i I 1 on W 0 T U as aa a welcome to the vial visitors from abroad and addresses will be delivered by most of those mentioned above miss alifa of iceland is the lion of the hour in local temper ance circles end and among the women who aro are gathering for the worlds convention and the addresses of this remarkable young woman promise to be one of the most interesting features of the event her anne ancestors tors were irish religious religions fugitives who established themselves in iceland in the fifteenth century for generations her people have been famous patriots and haye have conspicuously in the national struggle for freedom from danish rule her parents died when she was very young and her training devolved upon a maiden aunt and a bachelor uncle the latter it a speaker of the iceland house of parliament while for many years her aunt has been seen and heard upon the plat form in advocacy of reform issues with this training miss alifa has been enabled to become the leader of the women of her country just before leaving home he was elected grand vice chief templar of the independent order of good Temp lars she says that the burning ambition of her life is to bring the women of her country to an abao late equality with the men and as she is youns young decidedly I 1 good looking with an exuberance of spirits and a wonderful command ot of language her BUO porters believe that she will eventually succeed |