Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-02-12
The Home of Mary H. Hunt.
From the Womau's Journal.

the town of Hyde Park. Mass.
stands an uupreteutious white cottage.
chiefly peaks aud gables. halt hidden
in summer with vines. but outwardv
unmarked nv anything to distinguish it
rs the home OF a woman of national
fame. except. perhaps, flag pole over
one OF the balconies. where. on all
patriotic days when Mrs Mary II
Hunt is at home, the tlhg OF her conn
try. floating without. testiies of the
patriotism within.
But inside this little white house,
called Hope Cottage" from Mrs.
Hunts famous epigram. The Star OF
HOPE OF the Temperance Reform stands
over the School-hon>c ntc many
features which distinguish it from the
ordinary private dwelling. la place If
costly furnishings and hric-a-brac are
books and papers. papers and books
everyw here. Even the dinng-room is
invaded. and from one corner 90 out
the letters. plans, and supplies OF liter
azure 10 local worker. IN every part of
the United States. as well a in foreign
lands. In Mrs Hunts study ever,
lnct "t wall space is lined with books.
constituting well equipped reference
Library on The special science she is
ehsraiurg upon the school system OF
HE couu'rN.
The modest parlor takes for it, share
q The department parapherualia the
trophies OF nni,fie and remarkable
campaigns, Here Is the pen with
which President Cleveland sigued the
National Temperance Education Bill:
a Japanese and u Hawaiian edition OF
the first primary textbook ever pub
Iisied aud amoug other rnemenlocs.
gifts from devoted women in New
York and Pennsylvania in token of
their ihankiulness over the passage Of
the temperance education laws in those
great States.
\ recent addition to the list of souv-
enlrs l. a collection that has just come
all the way from India II consists Of
complete opium smoking outfit,
which has been used thousands Of
times III the governme mt licensed shops
OF India. There is the pipe, with its
small aperture for receiving the opium.
the saucer III which the drug is pre-
pared. the lamp, and the needle on
which the small bit OF gummv mixture
i taken up, held in toe flame. and then
applied TO the pipe. There is a chill
l.om, brick colored clay pipe. in
which ganyn. mixed with tobacco, is
smoked. and there are little boxes cou-
tanning specimens Of raw opium and
maddk, and the four products of the
demoralizing Indian hemp, ganja.
bh1Hq. charns and mQjum. In one box
IS seal bearing the English govern
ment stamp. sauctioning the sale Of
these soul and bod, DESTROYING mar
cotics 10 the poor deludcd natives OF
India.
Mr. Maurice Gregory. associate edi-
tor Of The Banner Of asa and Tie
BuBibag Guardt0n. sends these speci-
mems to Mrs. Hunt, appealing TO her
for help, and writes that interest is
being aroused on the subject of teach
ing the children in the schools The
nature and effect of these substances.
The missionaries find the greatest
obstacle to their work in the moral,
mental and ply degradation caused
10y the use of the various narcotics
whose sale the government is pushing
for the sake Of the revenue. They are
therefore beginning to see in this ecu
cation a hope of preventing the young
from being entlCed into the formation
of narcotic habits. Textbooks on the
topic from the Asiatic standpoint are
already being prepared
Thus the influences going ont from
that little white cottage in Hyde Park
are reaching not only to thousands of
schools and tens of thousands of chill
dren in the United States, but are ex-
tending to distant lands. where they
may yet be potent in saving thousands
more from the blight of narcotism-
the blight that Is greater menace to
human progress to-day than plague,
pestilencc, and war combined.
EMMA L. BENEDICT.