Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-07
OUR WHITE RIBBONERS.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO MAKE
THE woRlo BerTtRANo HAPPIER.

I'VE WONlO Dc c SNO wv F'EN'
RWk Among the Cht,dre n-sc.pcs Teach.
ing rempernnce-schools for 4. ach.rs-
Flowers and Pictures 70 Reach the sick
and rrsoncr.-who Won the Banners.
The reports Of the different depart.
ments Of the W. G. Il. U. work are cheer
Ing enough to convince IN, gloomi at
pessim st that the future grows
brighter. They furnish most complete
refutation of the statement made by its
non.partissn defamers TO the effect that
W. G. T. U. usefulness is n thing OF the
past.
The last years work proves that the
W. G. T. y. can afford to be consistent
with It's principles and stand Loyalty by
the Prohibition party that stands by II.
II proves too, that the cause Of human
| advancement loses nothing by such con-
sistency.
The secretary's report shows gain Of
meml ership Of 8 ssa,, Offset, however, by
loss of ,261 through secession In Iowa
and Pennsylvania; mt gain Of l,625
members.
The "Y" work has received healthy
stimulus. and Mrs. Barnes, the chief OF
this work sal: We have a larger loyal
| paid-up membership than ever before,
most notably In Ohio, L, nnsylvania and
| Vermont. want also to say, this last
| year we have gained more young men as
honorary members than ever before
last year we had 6.fW and this year
| 500. Our yOHng women are gaining an
| experience in flnarcial matters that the
mothers didn have. The young women
! have raised for all purposes S}4, SO.
THE RISING GENERATION.
| So far as now reported ther. are 3. 892
companies of Loyal Temperance LagiOns
now organized, with an enrolment OF
10000 children pledged against liquor,
| profanity and tpbacco. DOubtle there
are many more organized in temperance
bands under ut Ter names, or not report
| ing. Forty new companies Of the Loyal
| Temperance Legion have been formed In
| Pennsylvania, one hundred AMI four In
| New York, sixty in Illinois. The western
81 ates and territories deserve great
| credit for grand advances In spite of
/
and Illinois rave given he best financial
support to this department. New York
has the larges, number oI graduates on
the diploma plan. seventeen; Wise Ohsin
and other states have taken up the plan
with exec lent effect. County conven-
tiOns OF Loyal Temperance Legions have
been very helpful. Indiana leads in
having Loyal Temperance Legipns in
| corpOrated, also in erecting u Willard
fountain as q memorial to our Presi-
dents birthday. This state utilized
Mss Wizards birthday this year,
l September u, in raising money for the
| Nebraska cam :,aign. $40 being raised on
that day by the children for the amend
ment fund.-
TEMPERANCE IN SCHOOLS.
Mrs. Hunt speaking of this import ant
] work, said: In 1882, trembling at my own
temerity backed by the noblest cOnstit-
uency the world ever produ ed, pleaded
before the Legislature of Vermont for
the passage OF the first educational law,
a law requiring teaching physiology,
| with special referenc, to effects Of alcO-
bolics and hygiene. Michigan and New
Hampshire followed the sane year. The
Legislature of New York. in 1877, enacted
such law, and the next year nine states,
including the great State of Pennsylva-
mia. and the sma Ter. though perhaps as
| influential State Of Massachusetts en-.
acted similar laws. Then we went to
the Congress of the UniteI States. The
bill passed the Senate unanimously ; and
there were only eight votes against 1t In
the House.
We lad no books OF the kind desired.
There rushed into market a great food
of books no, containing the teaching de-
sired. Then followed the four years
book war. A or a: peti on, signed by
distng ishe men and women, was sent
| to publ shers, askin them % bring then
| books up TO tn high standard Of total
| abstinence, and the publishers surren.
| dered on cOn ton tlat ! would revise
| those books. Last year reported to
| you we had four separate series well
| u AIDED, in which the nature OF alcohol,
hygiene, foo |, including ply steal culture
In all its departments, were incOr.
| porated
This year he work OF legislation has
been going steadily ON. Virginia has
recently enacted q law, and the only
| states now having no law providing for
| scientific temperance instruction In pub.
lie schools are Texas, Mississippi.
Georgia. North and South Carolina,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
SCHOOLS TO TEACH TEACHERS.
Mary Allen West, reported that dur.
| ing the year there had been held twenty.
| six state Schools OF Met hobs, or in con.
nection with ChautauQuas, l65 county
or iDter-o0unty schools, with an aggre-
gate attendance of over fifteen thousand.
These schools have been generally con.
Quoted by presidents OF states or Ma.
tiOnal superintendent, with National
and state superintendents as teachers
In their especial DEPARTMENTS. These
schools occupy fiOm one or two days,
for the county Schools, to two weeks in
the Chautauquas. The number of de-
partments discussed of course varies
with the Length OF session; the com.
bined curriculum OF these schools
sweeps the wi ole circle Of the ". G. T.
U. work. Most interest had been
aroused In evang"lstic. jiveni ., Sun
day school. educa iOnal ana foreign
work. and parliamentary usage. This
last department is in special charge OF
Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, associate superin.
tenlent, who has done grand work, par.
tlcu!ar.y in IL series OF parliamentary
institutes.
Mr.. Ferdinand Schumacher. OF Akron.
Ohio. having offered 500 to the National
and as much more a, the organ ization
will cover fnl the D,rp, = of establish.