Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-01-09
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
contributed by Ladies of Washington Temper
ance Union-l
e.Women of the Century"
sARAH K. BOLTON.


have been reading, with great inter- |
est. Mrs. Phebe A. Hanaford's 'tWomen |
of the Century" and 1 want to urge
every woman to read it. With much pa
thence and skill, she has brought together
the goodwOrlx of the women of the last
century, and dedicated the result of her
labOrs TO US of the new.
1t oslght TO be an Inspiration to us. De
Toequeviile said, at the close of his book
on America, if he were required to point
out the cause of the wonderful prosperity
and civilization ofthe American people, he
shotiid reply ; - 10 was the superior char
Gcter Of their aeOnaen'' This record Of the
women Of the Revolution, philanthrophy,
the civil war, literature, science, art, re-
form, education, and the professions,
makes one rightly proud of her sex.
Names like Abigail Adams, Mary Liver
more, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Lydia H. Si-
courtney Maria Mitchell, Harriet Hosmer,
Saraf7 Smiley, Mary Lyon, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Lucretia Mott, Harriet New
ell, and host of others, are incentives to
noble living for the women of to-day.
Her struggles for education, till the
colleges of the land have been largely
opened to her, the closed doors of the
medical schools, till her energy and abili-
ty proved her fitness for the work, her
successes as historian, printer, journalist,
lawyer, inventor, in business, on the lee
4 ture platform, and in the cause of tenn
perance and the Gospel, will be beacon
lights to guide the women of the new cen
tury, and will read strangely as history
at the close of the next hundred years.
Mrs Hanaford, the author of ''Women
of the Century, is herself noble ex-
emplifcation of what a true, earnest WO-
man can be and do. A pastor of -four
ishing church, the author ofseveral books
Life of George Peabody" of which
49, 900 copies were sold; "Life of Abra
ham Lincoln, . with sale of 10000, alsc
1000 published in German; s'From Shor,
TO sShore'' Ia book of poems), books fol
the young, etc.-and lecturer, and de
voted to all true reforms, as temperance
ETC., and the like, she is said to be tht
first woman in the world who, as regular
y appointed chaplain, oficiated in tht
Legislature of Connecticut in 1870 anC
1872, and the first who evers attended I
Masonic festival, and responded with al
address, to toast, by regular appoint
ment.
Gentle in manner and refined in char
. lcter, bringing up her son and daughte
to usefulness, her son Congregations
: Clergyman, withswhom she has exchange,
: pulpits, and she herself marrying her owl
e daughter to worthy man, she has file
: well her sphere of wife and mother, Will
accomplishing so much for the outsid
worId. With the great demands mad
upon women at this day for Christian
and cultured work, we are all Iearnin
|; that person may become very selfis
e when four walls bound her sphere. Ther
E are other children besides our own, an
!. 6ther homes were sorrow and sin hav
come, and God made each "his brother
keeper, p for ''no man Iiveth unto him
self.''