The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-04-25
ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN.

cred 4 few EIst-ClasS temperance ieetulSs
in thf Territory some months ago. Her
lectures we're far superior in matter, make |
up, and delivery, to the ordinary otf-hand
temperance stump speeches with which,
unfortunately, the people are SO often attlic-
ted Her addresses were argunentative
and elegant, and eloquent in cicticn and the
wonder was that all the old topcrs in West
ern Montana were not reformed through
the instrumentaiity of the fair Frances's
oratory while she visited this ont-ot-the-
way section of the model Republic. III
ewspaper reports oe reliable, the cause OF
temperance is likely to lose Miss Willard.
She must have tired Of temperance talk,
and given up the reformation Of the wick
ed men as herculean job too heavy for
one single. lone woman to successfully
perform. So, Frances has turned her tai
ent in another direction. She is going to
pitch in now for the advancement OF her
own sex, leaving the sinful men to reform
themselves or else go headlong to the ire.
trievable bad. Frances has had ''revela'
tion"-or else the newspapers lie about her.
Her future course is outlined in the follow
ing except, taken from an exchange
"Miss Frances Willard says she has re-
ceived Divine revelation calling her to
work for the advancement Of women.
That revelation was given to the world
about 1854 years ago. 1t was interviewer
as the wool in the web, throughout the
entire structure of the Gospel revealed to
man by the Great Galilean. Miss Wizards
ability to do that work is largely due to
that other revelation"
From the quotation it is evident that
Willard has actually had a real revelation,
differing materially from the revelation re-
ferred to in the middle sentence Of the
quoted extract. Miss Willard would not
willfully say she had revelation unless
she had one, and so we must accept the
revelation part without the peradventure of
a suspicion. The advancement of women
is noble work in which the distinguished
reformer should heartily engage. Her
programme for the advancing of women
has not been printed yet, and that leaves
US in the dark as 10 the methods to be
adopted by her in the advancement.of.wo-
men business. When men are advanced
they are reformed and made good. 1t
must necessarily follow that Miss vii.
lard will tackle, In turn, the small and
great vices that the gentler sex 90 easily
and involuntarily, as Il were, fall into
That being the case, It Il certainly fair to
premise and surmise that Wizards "work
for the advancement Of women" will be
largely Of a reformatory character, and
that the big and little Vices Of the softer
\ and sweeter sex will be furiously lombard
cd after the manner Of men when engaged
In work for the advancement Of man. A.
Stunning that the position assumed Il the
; correct one, we will be pardoned for pre-
naturely, perhaps, appropriating Frances
thunder, which we believe has not vet beer
copyrighted. Undoubtedly Willard will
wade in to win, and begin by lecturing he,
sisters on the mischievousness Of INDUCING
In exclusively feminine gossip at sewing
circle meetings or tea stews. She will
probably, point uut the baneful effects o.
eating arsenic and drinking drinks thai
; are only intended to be swallowed by those
masculine monsters called men. On the
practice Of daubing fair feminine faces
| .,sk uGe ~fv rod lat
with ghastly looking reliefs Of white pow
. der to relieve the too much red, Willard
will wilt the women, and make the crimson
blush Of shame suffuse and confuse thei.
innocent countenances. In The matter OF
tight lacing the willing Willard will, with
out question, pass new law doing away
with the fashionable sixtcen.inch-i in cir
. conference waist, and substituting there
for the natural female waist. II Willard's
revelation has single spec OF genuine
. inspiration in it, she'll 60 for the common
, and Elusive vices of the day which arr
!. nourished by the presence Of the women
She will tell the whole female creation
| and likewise the male creation, that in he,
: "wotk for the advancement OF women il
will be absolutely necessary to shoot rec
hot shot at dance-room debauching anG
roller skating rink rottenness. Willard
presumably, will waltz into wal,zing anc
dancing, and with the eloquence that onl,
, Willard possesses, she will cry shalt" t.
her sin.inclined sisters. Coming down OF
promiscuous roller rink mobs, Frances will
: perhaps, tell her SHINING sisters that skating
i. Kinks are devices Of the devil-stepping
! stones to houses Of ill.repute on earth ans
! bars across the narrow road that leads {,