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Show A Woman's Iluildlng. The Woman's temple in Chicago gives the Woman's Christian Temperance union an important commercial standing. stand-ing. The building cost 1,250,000, and the rentals now received amount to $170,-000, $170,-000, a large surplus over the expenses, it is claimed. The rent roll with all the offices filled will reach the considerable sum of $22000 annually. If the women can fill this building, they will in a few years pay for the temple and have a fine income with which to carry on the work of the organization. Another success is the Woman's Temperance Tem-perance Publishing association of Chicago, Chi-cago, of which Mrs. Matilda B. Carse is founder and president and Mrs. C. F Grow manager. The association does an annual business of 125,000, doing a vast deal of book publishing for churches of all denominations, who thus help the Woman's Christian Temperance union. It also publishes The Union Signal and World's White Ribbon. Its editors are Frances E. Willard, Lady Henry Somerset, Somer-set, Margaret A. Sudduth, Harriet B. Kells and Ada M. Melville. The Woman's Wom-an's Temperance Publishing association also publishes the magazine Our Day, edited by Joseph Cook; The Oak and Ivy Leaf, edited by Jennie A. Stewart; The Young Crusader and Advance Guard, by Alice M. Guernsey. Springfield Ee-publican. |