The Press., 1893-11-23
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

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 Mrs. Livermore held the close attention of the great audience from the beginning to the end of her address. She first of- fered an historical review of the develop ment of nations and their types of civili- zation, coming finally to consideration of aristocracies, which all nations have, and particularly such aristocracy as there may be in the United States. The people who settled America, she said, did not come here to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, for they could do that in Holland. They came to carry forward English customs, to se- cure the perpetuation of that English civ iiization which they most approved. Let us insist that this great idea of our an- | cestors shall be carried out. A new na- tion wants money immediately; it must | nave 1t. Money was necessary for every thing. We have come to-day to lay un- due stress on the value of money, to al- most make 1t summun bonum. Our aristocracy is plutocracy, without re- gard to family, culture or character. There is nothing permanent in this ooun- try except the liquor traffic. It should be demanded of the rich men that they use some of their wealth for the public good.
 But there Is a new standard of aristoc- racy arising, based on the principle of caring for others and caring for them as we do for ourselves. Human nature needs vast deal of mothering, loving, helpful ness and sympathy. Whoever is alone in the world is likely to go the wall. After all, this great idea of loving God, what ever is good, true, right and just, loving our nelghbo1 as ourself, cannot be sur passed. 1t is possible for us to so live that we may be numbered in this aristoc- racy. The speaker referred to the noble work of Smith and Wellesley graduates in the slums of our large cities She would place these girls among the aristocracy of the Lord Jesus Christ and also Mrs. John. son of the Sherborn woman's prison, Ven dell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, who kept steadily to their purpose and at last got what they demanded. Lucy Stone and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union have place in this new aristoc- racy. The women are brave enough to confront the colossal evil of the world. The speaker was willing to be called a crank, for it means that one is not like 'the common herd, and does not care for eating, drinking, riding, dressing and wis., 1t1ng. The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will never win in this mighty struggle. said Mrs. Liyermore toward the | close, until the women have the ballot in their hands and vote on all questions. She was loudly applauded at the end. The benediction was pronounced by Rev. c. A. Merrill of Springfield.
 
 The Ohio room at the hospital is one of the last to be furnished and is among the pieasantest in the house. - Nebraska, with her usual business abil- ity and energy, is making ready to furnish room at the hospital. She has issued g. call asking for donations of towels, blank cts, spreads, etc., and whit =rihboners and unions of the state can contribute and thus have stronger interest-heoause an in- dividual effort has been expended in this institution that is seeking to demonstrate principle that would eliminate alcohol in it's medical treatment,
 As Mrs. Sturges, of Ohio, has signified her intention to furnish the operating room, it will hereafter be known as the Sturgess operating room. In this room no dormant appetite for strong drink will be aroused by the administration of alco- hol as medicine.
 Dr. A. E. T. Longhurst in the Vest minister review, says: "If we look to the properties of alcohol we find scientists, both home and foreign, agreeing that in | large doses it is narcotic poison, killing by suffocation, through it's paralyzing in | fiuence on the nerve centers, and in small CT but continuous doses, by the structural changes which it eXerts in the several or gans of the body. Chemically, it is hy= drocarbon, devoid of nitrogen, hence can give no real or permanent strength, By it's action on the blood cells it checks OK idation by limiting their power of absorb ing oxygen and eliminating carbonic acid and by it's strong affinity for water it dries UP the tissues, causing thirst. Alcohol therefore, in any quantity, interferes more or less with the purifieation of the blood and the healthy oxidation of the tissues. l Such an action cannot but be a cause of disease and injurious in diseased condi- tions."
 The names on the regular staff at the hospital, so far as completed, are as fol- lows Dr. Sarah Hackett Stephenson, president; Dr. s. w. Burson, secretary !; pr. Graham, Dr. Marie Olson, Dr. Karl Sandberg, Dr. Gregory.
 | The homeopathic staff, so far as con- pleted, stands as follows: Dr. Boynton, Dr. Herbert, Dr. Hedges, Dr. Gentry. A Visit to the Minneapolis w. c. T. U. Cof- fee House.
 Dear Union Signal l:-Any man or wo- man who doubts the business capacity of woman should take 8 trip to Minneapolis and stop at the w. c. T. U. coffee house, as guest of the central union. I spent a week or more there, and I wondered more and more. The building is several | sto1ies high, and the front is about hun dred feet. On the first floor are the large dining rooms, three in number, seating four hundred. As I sat there through the dinner hour watching the flow of peo- pie in and out for two hours, I was seized with desire to tell the readers of The l Union Signal of it.
 Twelve to fourteen hundred meals are served daily, about four thousand napkins washed daily, and from top to bottom all goes like clock-wcrk. Eighty are en- ployed in the place; the walters with white jackets and aprons and the wait- resses in spotless dresses fill orders with wonderful dispatch, and the kindly eye of