St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-25
MINNEAPOLIS.
MRS. LIvERMoRE's LECTURE.
What She Has Seen In Twenty
five Years on the Lecture Plat

What She Has Seen In Twenty
five Years on the Lecture Plat
form.
Mrs. Mary A. LiYermore-pleasant
faced, strong voiced, earnest and elo-
quent-stood upon the rostrum at the
Church of the Redeemer last night and
lectured to a well-filied house on
TWENTY-FIVE Years on the Lecture
Platform" Mrs. Livermore is undoubt-
eddy one of the most famous lectur-
ers, as we'll as one of the best-kn0wn
women in the world. Her characteristics
are strongly and clearly imprinted upon
her personality. A little above medium
height, but well proportioned, with
features strong but pleasant, iron gray
hair, combed in waves off broad and
high forehead, she would be noticed
as remarkable woman in any gather
ing. She has strong, clear, well-mod-
no mean degree. Her lecture was fire.
gently interrupted by genuine bursts of
applause.
She said that she was first inveigled
into public activity through begging
money for the sanitary commission. Be-
fore, she would not even speak to
woman who could so far forget her
proper sphere as to speak in public, but
she has changed her opinion. The work
was first among women alone, but men
would come to the meetings, and before
she had decided whether it was right
for her to speak in public she
found herself addressing thousands.
Then, when she went down among the
soldiers, the newspapers said: 'Write
your experiences and what you see,"
and,on her return, managers said: Put
what you saw and what you heard into
the form of lecture" Her husband
persuaded her to do it, and she became
a lecturer.
1t is Mrs. LivermOre's belief that
lecturers must of necessity become edu-
Gated by their occupation, because they
must keep in touch with the public and
up with the times. She became a seri-
Gus lecture because of her Puritan blood
and the seven generations of Baptist
| ministers who were in the family before
her. Lecturers must also become OPP
timistic, because they see so much of
what is bad and of the opportunities
for doing good that they are naturally
imbued with the thought that all will
come right.
While lecturers have a good deal of
fun, Mrs. Livermore explained, they
usually have it all to themselves. with
no companion to join in the laughter.
She then related some amusing expert
ences, among them an introduction to
an audience wherein the introducer
stated that she had been before the public.
for forty years under the nom de plume
of Lucy Stone; and another ON how,
having missed train, she kept an ap-
pointment in Cincinnati through the
medium of the cab of an engine, beer
wagon, derailed freight train and a
cattle train, having been compelled to
be received. weighed, billed and paid
for as live. stock before she could ride on
the latter.
Mrs. Liyermore then went on with a
discourse on the last quarter of cell
fury, and pronounced il the most re-
markable that the world has ever seen.
She eulogiZed Lincoln, went oyer the
reconstruction period, JOhnSOn'S at
tempt at mischief, touched upon the
great men who then did great work, and
held up to praise the magnanimity of
the North toward the South.
For the present progress of the South,
she gives the Southern women the
greatest portion of the credit. Details
Oh the condition of the South followed.
as seen by herself On a recent trip, and
she declared the negroes themselves
will solve the race problem by tempest
anu WHlrINllu. IL nOI Oln6rWlSe, WHEN
the Southern negro will show that he
has something of the Toussaint Power
ture in his blood. The soldiers and the
magnitude of the debt which the coun-
try owes them come next, and then
Mrs. Livermore made the only mistake
of the evening in allowing an argument
for the present tariff to creep in.
a belief in the eventual triumph of
right: a prophecy that soon wars would
be over forever, because of their ex-
travagant waste of human life; pre-
diction on development of aerial navi-
cation, telescopes and microscopes, the
outcome of feeling that the work of
the past twenty-five years but feebly
presages the great advancement to come
in the future followed; and the lecture
ended with glowing description Of the
development and advancement of
women, all of which had been brought
about by the efforts of right-thinking