Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-10-23

veek fer tina young y,msn 70 dr.
And where there 10 young vsmm
there 10 also yeune msn
thcush be be rot visibie - 10 Msssscnu-
sstss. where more OF them III n o. the Yong
4 dice have gone from the state. She spoks
a. the yoluR vomAb's work ID The home.
Her nlaca vss rea. the father aud mother
hs.ys Tbs ..Y-s" dusv is ., mske the
vhole world hemslike. The religious aspect
| ~ the ycune womab's mission was DIS 10 up
On yery iRecsively. T.mrsfsncs 10 needed
in The religious life Sh. had known young
neopls in the church who would pray for
eysrythiug else in he verdi husssmrefa1 &c.
She male pleasant sliusio2 20 toe Msiae
peon,s che had met in hsr travels. The
sneaker then srsk up the ssrk IN the educt-
,ian.l line. She ewphasizsd the necessity
Of introducing attractive features IN the
vcrk also the need Of personal sAefinces In
the social field.
Fgllowins Mis- C,o,hisr she quartet sang
81 = Go; to CO. Ms BArakat, wha al
slosg %. favored the c,avention win her
bright and D III ms Mt h5agh brief speeches
vas last evening enabled to devote hefseif
| I, an address thss was only too short for the
listeners, She iniudsi in this address
sks.sh Of her ewn life thss held the rsp'
attention OF the Apd'erca. for II 10 ssofs
| Of almost shfiii'ns inter ST She sas ecu
Gated iu her Sy ism home By church OIL
| Chestnus street in Pa,i.driptis. She weo'
many miles up tie Nile TO teach me
Es,p.aa girls her descriptions OF
The life there ~e,e vivid Sne
told Of her life amsns them. now
she took the veil AID hos in the massacre
CT 1899 sne barely escaped by c3ncsahns
herself for three days. The 'uherirgs enc
thea underwent, how faally win fsH-of
her companions she plead with Meham'
msd,a boAtnen. who pas them on beard
ship that took them TO Malta, from ~h!c.
10, she vent To France and
finally came TO Phuaiei2h-s, 81
strange woman il strange !sod
of whose language she was igaorAa''
On sr,ising thers she AS in pi'iseie can
dition. wretchedly clothed and Laughed 81
by the children on the streets. Shs couo
pronounce the name Of the pastor 81 tn'
cl u,ch on Chest ut street, but could only
deslsrate the name OF the street by the
word s'chessuuts' After much wandering
she found the house and had turned away
| When the pastor called her bsck on hsa
ing her frst me. Her Impressions that
| she had of Americans sn1 ihsit ideas ~
religion were described in her inimitAbl
manner and how she came to be interested
10 the tempert nee work. That portion of
her address that relstsd to the fereign iu-
migration was rep.ete With though
and eviaced the spe akefs thorough app'eci
alton of some Of the elAring defects con-
ected with it and the remedies tbS 'nu-'
be applied. Just before the close OF the
convention the life-like portrait Of Miss
| Willard, that had been at The right OF the
platform during the convention, was pre-
sented to Mrs. Stevens.
Notes.
The president, Mrs. Stevens, in annauac-
ing that the Kenne bee JOURNAL would be
on sale, made very pleasant illusions to the
paper and said among other agreeable COM
ments that it contained not only very full
re port of the convention but all the news
As we'll.
Miss Mary L. Ffef CHI OF Auburn, the
superintendent Of press work is one OF the
mos. i defAtigable workers in the Main
Union. Any one at all fan iliar with the
toll ace mpanying the publishing Of such
paper az he organ of the Union, the Star
in the East, will appreciate something Of
the work she is doing without recompeus
save that Of kI owing tina. the csuse lie
| greatly bane flied by her forts.