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TEMPERANCE.
Effective Temperance Work.

to accomplish this object is by the distribu-
ton of literature that brings the truth home
to the people. One specific example Of the
evil effects of strong drink in community ls
worth more at this day than volume OF
generalizations on the subject. Unfortunately
there are very few communities in this coun.
try where it is necessary to go outside for
Illustrations Of the woes and miseries that
follow strong drink.
A Temperance Temple Projected by
the w. @. L. U.
One of the MANY plans Of work elaborated
by the National Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union in its recent Convention in the
Metropolitan Opera House has to do with the
building of temple to temperance. The re-
markable women of this remarkable organl'
zation are not one wit more ideal III their
character than they are practical and
though they have been thousand times over
accused of trying to force an ideal life upon
mankind, it must be admitted that they are
practical in their means and methods.
1t is SO in the matter Of this temple. Some
of the women have for many years longed
that there might be some material monument
to commemorate the society's work. But
monument, and 80 the desire remained
dream. Then some of the PRACTICAL women
took up the dream and began to make it q
reality. They have not got the temple built
vet, but they have the ground, and they are
getting the money to pay for the stone and
mortar. The structure will stand on Dear
born street, Chicago, fronting the Post Othee
and the Custom House, and it's going to bs
handsome even among Chicagos handsome
buildings.
The scheme.was first thought of in prac-
tical way by Matilda B. Carse. one OF the
foremost W. G. T.. U. workers in Illinois,
She has been busy for five years thinking
over the problem Of getting the money. The
Central Union Of Chicago took hold OF the
plan, and was incorporated, so that it might
hold property. Then the National Union
took it up, and now the building of the Tenn
perance Temple is under their direction, and
the national body will be the owner. There
was difficulty about getting sight which
would be central and yet within the socletys
means. Finally the right spot was found;
But the only way by which the society could
get control Of the land was on perpetual
lease without revaluatiou. This was FORUM
ate, for it was much better for their purpose
than to own 1t in fee simple. The rental IS
S35, 900 year. The plot is considered one OF
the most valuable in Chicago. Its nearness
to the Post Office and Custom House assures
it the advantage of being in central loca-
tion for many years. Besides, the lot fronts
on three streets.
All these facrs and great many more were
related at one of the business sessions OF tne
Metropolitan Opera House. Ihe temng Oh
them a,yoke tremendous interest, and q little
while after Sister Carse had told how the
dream was now evolving into rea! tning
there were seen in different parts OF tne pig
opera house audience small boxes, SO covered
with paper and so shaped that they presented
both a picture and model of the new tenn
ple These were mite boxes, and IN the top
of each was q slit through which coin could
be dropped. Twenty-fv thousand of these
little mite boxes have been made, ana toey
are to be sent to the 10000 local unions OF
the W. C. T. q. all over the land, SO tnas
stray pennies may be gathered for the temple
fund.
Some Of the boxes were filled during the
Convention. One came from one OF the
tables where some of the newspaper people
were sitting. An impulsive newspaper
woman with a laughing face and olg
heart, made her comrades-both men ana
women-chip in. She had been eatlng eanay
during the session, and she got up this con-
tribution for the temple as penance for ner
sweet tooth frivolity. The box had Sll.e2
in it in a jiffy from the newspaper group,
and was the first one sent to the platforn1.
President Willard put it on the Crusade
Bible on her desk in full view OF the Cen
vention, and then smiled down on the news
paper people with wish that they would be
as we'll blessed with quiet as they were with
good intentions
Besides the money that will come from
these boxes, it is estimated that each union
in the various towns and villages will con-
tribute as a body. Then gifts from indl.
viduals are being made, and there are more
to come.
style of architecture chosen is the late gothic
of France, at point just before it began TO
take on the modern features of the renals-
sance. The architect who designed the build
ing thinks that the style of the temple is pc
culiarly adapted to the purpose for which IL
is intended. This style eliminated in history
at point when feudal Europe was taking on
forms more essentially modern; when the
long and turbulent medieval period was
crystallizing into well-understood and stable
forms. Amy one, he says who is faml-
liar with the style in France will recall many
charming examples, as in the Palace OF jus
tice at Rouen; the house at Jacques Coeur,
at Bourges, and many other examples Will
at once occur to the art student. The pecu-
liar charm of this style, in its best examples,
is that it is typical Of the life which first be-
gan to manifest itself in the exterior OF the
houses and in decorative charms which lndl.
Gated that its occupant was not afraid to let
his neighbors know that he was man or
wealth and condition. The house, in other
words, which previously confined its decora-
tion mainly to the inside, now began to
bloom outward like flower"
AS designed, the building is intended to be
two stories of dark stone, probably OF red
granite. The other ten stories are to be con-
structed of dark gray brick and terra Gotta,
of such color as will carry out in tone the
dignity which so large building should
possess. The enrichment of the front IS very
largely concentrated about tine main en-
trance, where it is intended to carve the
coats .of-arms of all the various State or
ganizations belonging to the National Union,
and the heraldic devices relating thereto In
the large tympana above the outer and inner
entrance through the main doorway the
general coats -of-arrns of the National Union,
and the jname Of the building, are to be
wrought in glass mosaics, which will be
equally brilliant by night or day.
Passing through this general hallway there
is large rotunda at the end, which opens in
to the Memorial Hall proper, to be known as
Willard Hall. This rotunda is to be decor
ated by large fountain in the middle. in
the design of which the gush of water IS to
be the chief element. as in the case of the
fountains at Versailles. This central
feature is intended to be typical Of the pur-
pose of the entire building
Willard Hall, which is entered from thls
central room, is intended to be so arranged
that memorial tablets and scriptural lnscrlp-
tions, bronzes, and glass can be freely used;
also statuary, so that in time the nall may
become in every sense significant OF the pur-
poses of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, of the triumphs Of its heroes ana the
death Of its martyrs. Outside OF the DulldlnS
two large fountains adorn the two corners on
the main front Whatever enrichment there
is upon the front is intended to be wrought
by hand, and various kinds of flowers are
employed. which are to he emblematic of the
flowers adopted by the different State organ
izations
The tower itself is so large and important
as to dominate the entire building, and also