St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-10
THE WHITE CROSS.
Miss Willard Delivers Strikingly
Eloquent Address.

Eloquent Address.
Miss Frances Willard, of Evansville,
ILL.,, the famous lecturer, was the last
speaker of the evening. Her topic was,
"The White Cross in Education" She
began her address by facetiously re-
ferring to the educational themes, ETC.,
and she spoke of the different types OF
art; and ikened them unto the doctrine
of teaching the grimiest child in
dirty alley that the human
body is the temple of the holy
ghost That is art, too, she asseverated.
Sculpture and painting restore the
features of God, that were lost to earth.
Though not cultured as they may have
wished to have been, each and every
something of the higher planes of
which we are told by the more culti-
waited women. Miss Willard believed
that at certain depths all hearts COM
municate-all souls are one. She be-
lieved that there are men who are true
to the sanctity of the home. Some say
that marriage to man is only an
episode in life, and that to
woman it is only an event. But
read the recitalS in the press of wives
abandoned, of SweetheartS abadoned,
and see if one does not clearly deter
mine that love strikes deeply into the
strong heart of man. Miss Willard be-
lieved there are just as many men in
the world who never married because
they couldn't as there are women, and
she fancied in that often laid great
virtue. People do not wear their heart
on their sleeve nor tell all that they
know. but they can read between the
lineS-itiS so plain, indeed, that he who
runs may read. The lecturer wished
to speak upon the White Cross
movement because she had pre-eminent
faith in the sanctity of man. The white
cross in education is the idea tn at CEN
Some thirty odd years ago. as young
girl, she had gone. some distance from
her home to.a little old school house,
with nearly every panesin the windows
shattered, to see what she could do as
pedagogue, and she had followed the
life long time.
The financial independence of women
was an important phase of her dis
course. She had read in the labor sta
tistics of Massachusetts, state of
which it is proverbially taught that it is
one of the greatest and nobleSt in the
Union-and she had seen stated in
that report that of the lowest paid wage
workers women comprise 20 per cent,
and of the higher paid only per cent.
From this she drew an effective moral.
She stated that the average boy of ten
years in Massachusetts, received
the same compensation for like
class of work as the woman
OF twenty or = upwards. She
supplicated the teachers to get up a
storm of rebellion at such an abnormal
condition of things. She urged that it
should be a penal offense for man to
offer woman less wages than will pay
her board and clothe her. You would
then be in a position to say honor for
She believed that every woman should
be an apostle in dress reform. 1t had
done her good to see the amplitude of
form as the women had stood on the
platform that night. She had hoped to
have stood among them in that respect,
but she feared she would stand but a:
slim show. She hoped every teacher in
the association would inculcate the
ideas of dress reform among all the
girls in their schools. Next to the COM.
mon education she asked that the teach
erS insist upon a complete understand
ing of the rights Of franchise for
women. In so doing they would
help the White Cross up to great
heights and certain prominence.
Touching upon the temperance part of
her theme, she said there is an s'Origin-
al package" which is the little child
which will never be contrabanded by
the courts. She urged that the ethical
teachings of hygiene is one of the
grandest Outbursts of God. 1t grieved
Miss Wizards heart when the
Bible was removed from the public
schools, but she is consoled with the
knowledge that when the bible went
out of the door, the word of God came
in at the window. No schools can be
GODDESS unless they are conducted by
GODDESS men and women, but such con-
ditions are removed by the force of
the realm in the Skies. We should,
breathe in the thought that science.
like the fires. purifeS everything that it
touches. She had no glance for the
slums, but an eye rivited to the heights,
and no one could have objection to such
a sisterly and motherIy way. [
believe more than / know was
the watchword that led Columbus
to cross the ocean, that influenced
Stanley to plunge into the unknown,
wilds of Africa, that nerved Edison to-
unravel the mysteries of electric sei-
ence. The peaSantry of Ireland are the
most pure in the world. There is=a
COriiuueI or Eighth Pare.