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Show ADDRESS OF LADY HENRY World's W. C T. U. Con- ; gfatiilated on Progress Made. . GENEVA. SwiUerland, June 9. At today's session of the convention of the World's Woman Christian Temperance Union the presiding officer, Mrs. Lillian ili N. Stevens of Portland, Me., read Lady Henry Somerset's presidential ad-iress. ad-iress. In which the absent president pre-Ailcted pre-Ailcted that the eventual outcome of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's fTght would be a complete victory over the Hfjuor traffic. The address also referred to Great Britain's reputation for Inebriety, said modern governments were alive to the danger and referred to the fact that Russia, France and Sweden were strenuously stren-uously fighting the evil. Lady Somerset Somer-set also mentioned the "magnificent efforts ef-forts of the United States,. more powerful power-ful In Its youth to overcome the custom engrartea into oia countries, enieeDiea by time," and concluded with an appeal for the exaltation of the home, asserting that the work of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union could be best summed in the words of Its great founder, the late Miss Frances Willard, "to make the world wider for women and more homelike for humanity." |