The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-05-14
MIsSERANCEs WILLARD REARs DoUN.
Her Great Efforts for Temperance Have
Shattered Her Health Her Career.

Her Great Efforts for Temperate, H,x.
Shattered Her Hcnith-lier Career.
Letters received from London by the
Woman's Christian Temperance. Union state
that Frances Willard has entirely broker
down MS tho result OF her three years hard
work and the loss OF her mother last year.
Her physicians have ordered her to Switzer-
lanu Tor the summer. and refuse to allow her
to cnrry out her plan OF taking part in tho
worlds congresses ut tho Exposition. Some
doubts are expressed as to her recovery.
Miss Willard is O born leader of oman.
ana her inspiration and influence will be
much missed In the great temperance move
ment OF which she was the organizer and
leading spirit. For tho past year she has been
with Lady Henry Somerset in England. where
sho was received with great enthusiasm on nil
public occasions. and spoke almost constantly
before W audiences. Her home in Amer.
leu on Lake Michigan. near Evanston. was
called Hest Cottage" though there. in her
oen' she workod from 8 In tho morning un.
I'll evening planning her campaigns. Watching
and directln: each now movement in the tom.
military c%omman,ior. With Hor worked.
tTGi a sinai army OF secretaries. typs:
them a devoted !enthusias, in nth the 'W Work.
A. President OF tho ,Worid's ". e i. {.
tsmneranse workers all over tho World. from
China to Natal. from London to San Francisco.
i"Tnt dd't by n.r e III Iiy6dfnG', Besides this. accom-.
made prolonged tours anon. tho American
up Mhiis OF With she is also resident. n..,,
EESers"nally visited no, only every Stat. and
Territory in the United States. but also every
the association o. Temperance women is or.
gsnizeh with a completeness found in no other
phiinnthroric body.
At the, conventions held IN Boston last ALL
tumn drlegates we're present from every ,nrt
OF America, and Representatives OF all the
coMhtries IN IL" world took part.
Miss willard was born In New York State IN |
80, ana taken 10 Wisconsin while still in in
happy apprenticeship to nature" md ainiad
me Tnr ,rnyn snt of "A .EXccrtionally cultured
trnce al" most ' Of S,er in d In1s GaTly life may he
nnliiy of thought. her quaint and forciHIo
and. METAPHORS in speaking and
ness and rebellion when they braided vi her |
long hair, enlightened her gowns. and taught
mands Of women. Prophetic OF her nresant
indennndencc OF theory. her belief, in tho
S ~, OF the ieN"s. was tho little girls
freedom enJoych by her brothers. whose COM
pnninn she bad been, through CHILDHOOD. At
with unusual distinction. and after travelling
l9r q. z s'We IN turop. he was appointed Dean
early day, of the temperance movement she
a anaS aiIi.J \ g. Eays s nE AZ adEan,eseGps worE.
enrc. For some time she worked incessantiy.
VIII no salary, supporting herself rs best she
IL was her mother. practical rs well as
jealous in good WORKS. who wrote TO the en-
thu,iast calling attention to the met that her
rlo,liing, was nearly worn out. her health we'll
nigh exhausted. ana that the laborer was
worthy OF hCr hire. since then tho
s9cicty tn whose service she has devoted her
lie. her magnificent energy and her eXcep-
ional talent have recognized her services In
regular way Miss Willard ia n small wo.
nan; below middle height. with a fine head. an
Intellectual face. stern In repose Lut Lighted NV
1r,t:it and beautiful eyes. She mas that rare
silt among Women-a sense OF humor and n
'"atv. srarklinG wit. Both in public and
private one feels the. magnetism Of her pres
nee, which is the chief secret Of her success.
,'e"p!" un"onsciously yield their best at her
'cnnnd. and her natural aptitude for cl,ssia-
alton and organization does tho rest.