The Dillon tribune., 1884-12-20
Francis E. Willard on the Evolution
of Home.

or Home.
We're asked to define in sentence the
thought and purpose of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, / would re.
ply: ut is to make the whole world hong
like" Some one has said that ''tempcra.
nent is the climate of the individual" but
home is woman's ci:;late--hcr vital brcatl.
her native air. a true woman carries
home with her everywhere. It's at,nos-
phere surrounds her; its mirror is her
tacc its music attonrs her gentle voice; y
longitude may be reCkontd from wher-
ever you happen to find her. But
"IIo,,e's not merely four square walls
Some people ono. thought it was, and
they thought also that you might as we'll
throw down its Lares and Penates AS 70
carry away its weaving loom and spinning
wheel. But it Survived this spoiia1on, and
when woman ceased to pick their own
geese and do their own dyeing, it still Sc
renely smiled. The sewing machine took
away much OF its occupation; the French
and Chinese laundries have intruded upon
its domain; indeed, men, by their witty in.
ventions, are perpetually encroaching upon
"woman's sphere" SO that the next gener.
alton will no doubt turn the cook stove out
Of doors, and the housekeeper, standing at
the telephone, will order better cooked
meals than almost any one has nowadays,
sent from scientific caterers BY pneumatic
tubex and the debris thereof returned 10 a
general clcaning.up establishment, while
houses will be heated, as they are now
lighted and supplied with water, from gen
eral reservoirs.
But though Eli Whitney with his cotton.
Frocbel with his kindergarten ard ten
thousand more inventors have encrt,ached
on won,an's former avocations, they have
not degraded, but have ennobled woman's
home.
All invention is but the triumph Of brain
over Drawn. First the world had to be
governed by natural forces; afterward BY
those that are spiritual. If matter is the
greatest fact, spirit is the greatest factor
and the balance of Gods plan asserts Itself
once more when woman, for whom man
has subdued the savage world external
comes tenderly to his rescue, and helps
him to subduc the empire Of his own pas
sions, and put to rout the legaized tcmpta
tons that haunt his footsteps everywhere
As women we are fortunate in beiongn.
to the less tainted half Of the race. Mr.
Benjamin Ward Richardson says that bu
tor this conserving fac, it would dcteri
lady said. after viewing brewery, distil
lery and tobacco factory: "Ain', thank
ful that the women folks han't got all tina
stuff to chew and smoke and swallow
muscle by force OF hart, that what on
strong brothers have done to >ubduc tn
material world for us, who are not thci
equals in phvs;ca! strength, may be otisc
by what we snail achieve for them in bring
ing in the reign OF
"Swurtrr manners, pIrrr laws,
For the world is slowly making the I'M
nense discovery that not what "o:na
does, but What she is makes home 4 p,>s
biz creation. 1t j., the Lords ark anu do.
not need s;eadyiny. 1t will survive tn
wreck OF systems and the crash nt thee
ries, Tor the home is Du, the ctllorcsccnce {
wo'nans nature, undcr the nurture {
Christ's gospel. She came into the CO
!ege and hu,nanzed it; into literature an
hallowed it; into the business world an
ennobled it, She will come into govcrr
mcnt and purify it; into politics and cleans
that S,ygian pool as the waters ut Mara
were cleansed, for woman will make hom'
like every place she enters and she wi
enter into every place on this round earts
ANY custom, traffic or party on which
ohristan woman cannot lo"k with tav'
r'rvocably doomed. Its welcome Of h
presence and her power is to he the tin
.Nof its fitness I" survive. All G">p
civilization is radiant with the de"lt'ns'r
u'n Of this truth.
~, 1T Is not go..' tor man m he alone
Inc most vivid ohjer, lesson TN history
page is the fact tina, his deterioration is
sNact proportion !" his is',la'i,n from Il
nome Of w"'nan'> pure and heavenly cor
Partnership.