FRANCES WILLARD'S LIVING MONUMENT
This Week Devoted to Her Memory by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Throughout the World.
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BT LUCIA F. ADDITOX.
TODAY all over our Nation, and. In
fact, over the world, groups of phi
lanthropist and the White Ribbon
clans, will commemorate the "home go
lnj" of Frances Elizabeth Wlllard; not
merely a memorial day, as the term Is
usually used, but as a living monument.
When, on February 17. 1S98, Miss Wil
bird passed from earth land to life land,
all the world mourned.
And many plans were suggested as to
a suitable monument to erect to her mem
ory. Churches placed memorial windows
Jn their houses of worship. Marble busts
were placed In public libraries; the state
of Illinois, by act of Legislature, erected
a white marble statue in Statuary Hall at
our National capital; the only woman
thus far In the Nation's history, to be thus
honored. It remained, however, for the
organization she had developed and for
whirh she gave her life and marvelous
talents, to build a living monument, and
the week beginning February 17 is known
as memorial week, and meetings are held
everywhere In commemoration of this
benefactor of humanity.
The Portland W. C. T. V. will hold
their commemorative meeting with the
Taylor-Street M. E. Church this evening
at 7:30. The pastor. Rev. Benjamin
Young, will have charge and deliver the
address. Most cordial invitation is ex
tended to all Interested In this notable
occasion.' and who feel that such a monu
ment is in deep accord with the progress
of the 20th century.
At these meetings a free-will offering
1s taken up and placed In a national fund
for the purpose of aiding in the extension
and perpetuation of the plans and pur
poses of the work of the organization.
From this fund aid is sent Into mis
sionary territory, and to help campaigns
for civic righteousness and gain new
members, who believe in the Justness of
their cause- This, so the constituency
believe, is In perfect accord with the pur
poses of this Intrepid leader, and that this
living monument would be the kind of
a monument Miss Wlllard herself would
choose. From this fund last year. 17
slates were substantially aided, mission
ary fields helned and greatly strength- I
ened. and many a campaign of moral
education made possible, which has been
a most potent Influence In augmenting
the reform wave now sweeping through
the country.
Financial aid was sent to Manila, where
Mrs. Annie Parley Is a resident W. C. T.
f. missionary. Work among the col
ored race received aid In six states.
Thus a mighty arrest of thought was
ent forgmg its way through the con
science of the people. Not least among
the good work accomplished was the
large amount of educational literature
that was sent out.
One can readily see this form of a liv
ing memorial Is but the working out of
the motto that Miss Wlllard was ever
repeating to her soldiers, namely, "Agi
tate, educate and organize," and through
this fund It becomes more and more a
live wire, from which vibrates love and
Joy of doing good according to a plan.
History records the names of great
women as well as men. There was the
if aid of Orleans. Joan of Arc. who In the
fifteenth century came forth as a liber
ator of a distressed country, and by a
series of extraordinary measures achieved
her purpose, and had her name recorded
In the temple of history as one of the
most heroic women of the ages.
There was a Saint Theresa, a century
later, who. In spite of the religious des
potism of her time, possessed a faith not
divorced from repentance, a conscience
that did not Ignore the ten command
ments, and a heart unlocked for suffer
ing humanity by the key of a boundless
sympathy. There was Hannah Moore of
the firFt third of the last century, who
was designated the "mother of modern
female education," and whose uplifting
Influence had the effect, even on this
side of the Atlantic, of creating Vassar
College.
Then there was Mary Lion of Mount
Holyoke fame, one of the great fe
male educators of our country. Florence
Nightingale, born In the lap of luxury,
gave herself to be a battlefield nurse,
and surpassed all others of the war of
the Crimea. And we should not over
look the Illustrious women of still more
distant ages, Deborah, Ruth, Hannah.
Queen Esther, Mary Magdalene, and Dor
cas. Miss Wlllard's work In the educational
and literary world, as well as In that of
philanthropy and reform, is well known
and needs no repetition from my pen:
but there Is one act of her life that
stands out a luminous light on the pages
of the history of great careers.
After filling the position of president
of the Evanston College and dean of the
university, and occupying an enviable
place in the literary world. In 1874 came
a testing time, and she chose the re
markable career that gave her the name
of the "Uncrowned Queen of America."
How came this about? It was In this
wise: Two offers of work were tendered
her simultaneously, one the offer of pre
ceptress of a famous ladles' school with
a very large salary and every way a
most desirable position, the other a call
from a fcand of middle-aged women of
Chicago to come to them and be the
president of the local Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, without salary and
with the prospect of no end of hard and
unpopular work. She chose the latter.
Was It not heroic? What led .her to
make this choice, so full of sacrifice?
The answer comes, the profound convic
tion that it was a call of God.
Of the world-renowned "do-everything"
policy which she established in the re
form work, when assailed by critics, she
says: "The 'do-everything policy was
not of our choosing, but Is an evolution
as Inevitable as any traced by the nat
uralist or described by the historian.
Woman's genius for detail and her pa
tient steadfa;lness in following the ene
mies of those she loves through every
lane of life have led her to antagonize
the alcohol habit and the liquor traffic.
Just where they are. wherever that may
oe. If she does this, since they art
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everywhere, her policy will be 'do every
thing." Again she said: "The W. C. T. U.
stands as the exponent, not only of that
return to physical sanity which will
follow the downfall of the drink habit,
but of the reign of a religion of the
body which, for the first time in his
tory, shall correlate with Christ's
wholesome, practical, yet blessedly
spiritual religion of the soul." The
kingdom of heaven Is within you; do
not forget that. Verily it can be said:
"Though she is dead,, yet she speak
eth." The following extract from her noted
speech on "Home Protection" Is carved
on the base of the statue that graces
the National statuary hall. It was se
lected by the sculptor herself.
"Ah, it Is women who have given the
costliest hostages to fortune. Out Into
the battle of life they have sent their
best beloved, with fearful odds against
them, with snares that men have legal
ized and set for them on every hand.
Beyond the arms that held them long,
their boys have gone forever. Oh! by
the danger they have dared: by the
hours of patient watching over beds
where helpless children lay; by the
Incense of ten thousand prayers wafted
from their gentle lips to heaven, I
charge you give them the power to
protect, "along life's treacherous high
way, those whom they have loved."
This Is Miss Willard's favorite hymn,
the first one ever taught her by her
devoutly religious father:
A tharce to keep I have,
A God to Rlorify,
A never dyinc ul to save
And fit it for the sky.
To serve the present age,
My calling vo fulfill.
Oh. may It all my -powers engage
To do my Master's will.
Hints on Training Husbands;
by One Who Never Had One
Being an Account of a Chat Between a Girl Just Engaged and Another
Who Declares Herself a Confirmed Spinster.
BY LILIAN T1NCILE.
AST Sunday was Valentine's day,
I you remember: or have you reached
an age or state of mind when St.
Valentine and his day have no further
Interest for you? Well, It was, anyway;
and that Is one of the reasons for what
follows.
It was Monday or Tuesday that I was
hailed on my way down town by a
charming young friend of mine.
"You've simply got to come in and see
my valentines," she said; and there was
that In her eye and voice that made me
forget that I thought I had about 19
very important matters demanding my
presence in the heart of the city, end I
meekly followed her up the steps of ber
home.
She Is a deservedly popular girl and
had a fine collection of valentines to dis
play. They ranged all the way from the
kindergarten art of her little brother up
to a wonderful complication of candy and
flowers from a young man who had
been sorely afraid that she might wish
to be a sister to him. In fact It was
only" a few days previously that he hd
managed to assure himself as to her un
sisterly regard, and that war why the
valentines were forgotten in the inspec
tion of a brand new solitaire ring on the
third finger of the Valentine girl's left
hand.
It was some minutes later, after some
"words with which you have no con
cern," that the Valentine girl plumped
me into a chair and said with a certain
finality of tone, "You're not going. You
think you're busy, but you're not. You
are going to sit there and give me some
good advice about training a husband."
I gasped, and hastily reminded her
that I was merely a confirmed spinster
of honorable standing and that she had
a real married cousin, right there In the
house, who was always ready to he a
mother to her at any hour of the day or
night.
The V. G. simply looked at me. "Don't
be silly." she said. "You know Harriet
as well as I do. What I want is the
result of your observations on various
parts of the earth's surface. Outsiders
always see moat of the game." she add
ed, with a seductive grin, "and I want
all the inters I can get. Of course I
have Ideas of my own about the Impor
tance of feeding them properly and let
ting them think they are having their
bwn way when it's really yours; and not
nagging: and trampling upon them oc
casionally for their good; and not
plagueing them continually about how
they like your hat: but there's an awful
lot to learn, and June will be here be
fore I can turn round."
For a fiancee of three or ' four days'
standing, and barely out of her teens. It
seemed to me that the Valentine Girl
had grasped some of the essentials of
good government; but I didn't want to
make her vain, so I merely remarked
"That seems to me sound as far as It
goes. What else?"
She swung round with a question: "Do
you think lt fair to cry at them? Jessie
M told me once that she could get
anything she wanted from her husband
If she Just cried a little."
"No! I don't," I said, "it's taking an
unfair advantage. And besides, Jessie
has the art of crying becomingly, while
you know perfectly well that you and I
are both like that girl In the Kipling
story, "who cried in the German fashion,
which Includes much blowing of the
nose."
She couldn't deny it; so I continued
my sermon. "I think a pretty good motto
is one that I learned from a small boy
in Kngland, the captain of a cricket
team to which I had the honor to be
long. His sister one day found a grimy
sheet of paper laboriously written in
the small captain's best hand: 'Over
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runs for "bys." (2) No argyn.' They
were good rules. 'No runs for byes' means
that you must not take undue advantage
of your opponent's weak bowling very
chivalrous, considering the number of
girls on that team. Getting your own
way by crying or similar means strikes
me as getting 'runs for byes,' and as for
'no argyn ' "
"Yes. I quite see the point of that,
she said, "Ife a good rule too and prob
ably a matter of self-defense on Mr.
Edward Poysei-s part Judging from what
you say of the number of girls on the
team."
I threw a cushion at her. but .she
dodged and picked up a pencil and pad.
"I'm going to write some rules, too.
They may be amended from time to
time but they will serve as a working
basis."
"Whose names are you putting down
for captain of the team?" I asked. "Your
own or his?"
"Never you mind," she said (but I had
my own opinion as to what she wrote it
seemed rather long and her own name
Is a short one.) We'll adopt those two
for a beginning:
1. "No runs for byes" In the widest
sense.
2. "No argyn" unless for diversion. It
certainly would be awful always to agree
with each other.
J. Regular and wholeeome feeding.
4. No questions asked until after a
meal.
5. A suitable amount . of "sauce for
the goose."
6. Both learn to enjoy the same Jokes,
and the same things to eat.
7. Have a clear understanding In re
gard to division of Income and of labor.
8. Don't nag him about smoking It
only makes him worse.
"I'll think of more in a minute, but
what do you think of 'those for a start?"
"I've proved them all on brothers," I
said, "and mine are admitted by all be
holders to be remarkably well-trained.
Husbands are similar animals In many
respects, so I'm told. Indeed they say
good brothers usually become good hus
bands. eventually ; but the original trainer
does not benefit by this transformation."
"Would you class husbands as savage
or useful animals?" asked the V. G.
"That depends primarily upon their in-,
dividual digestions," I began, when sud
denly I perceived the Married Cousin
was in the room. "What are -you little
girls (I'm older than she is) talking
about?" she asked. In a voice of studied
sweetness.
"Husbands and other wild beasts." said
the V. G. ' "I'm learning to wield the
trainer's whip."
The married cousin is an admirable
wife and mother, but among the virtues
Providence has failed to supply her with
a sense of humor.
Her eyebrows went up and her mouth
down. "At such a time, Valentine," she
said, "I should have thought that you
would hardly mane a Jest of''
But we knew the Married Cousin and
her "sacred subjects." and like King
Solomon's wives at the rebuke of the
Most Beautiful Balkiis. we "laid our
hands upon our mouths and departed
most mousy quiet."
SCHOOLMASTER ON STRIKE
Refuses to Teach Children. Until
Garden AVall Is Repaired..
PARIS. Feb. 20. (Special.) The lit
tle village of Concondray, In the can
ton of Andeui. is at present troubled
by a curious rtrlke. One day the lo
cal schoolmaster discovered that his
garden wall was crumbling away. He
addressed the Municipal Council, sug
gesting that the wall should ba re
paired at once. The Council considered
that the matter was 'not one of urgency
and Informed the schoolmaster that the
wall would be attended to in the
Spring.
This reply did not satisfy the school
master. "If the wall is, not repaired I
will strike," he said.
He has carried out his threat. For I
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a month Concondray has been without a
schoolmaster. This state of thiites is
not to the liking of the villagers, and
their discontent is accentuated by the
conduct of the schoolmaster, who when
ever he meets the fathers of his schol
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turmoil all day through tho children.
The parents asked the local Mayor to
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replied that tho Mayor was responsible
for what has happened. The parents
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