The Press., 1893-11-09
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
The Great Conventions.

1 Womans' Christian Temperance Union the following officers were elected. Mrs. Martha Nichols, president; Mrs. Carrie Orcutt, 1st vice president; Mrs. Helen Alden, 2d vice president; Mrs. .M.B. Fisk, 3d vice president; Mrs. T. c. Lathrop, cor. secretary; Mrs. H. A. Newell, rec. secretary Mrs. F. R. Watts, treasurer ; Mrs. Carrie Orcutt, superintendent of sci entific temperance instruction; Mrs. B. F. Taylor, program for Nov. Mrs. Un- derwood, superintendent of literature ; Mrs. Nellie Hodgson, superintendent press work; Mrs. M. M. Kinney, solicitor. Regular members will confer favor if they VIII kindly hand their yearly dues to Mrs a4Ainney, or to the treasurer, as soon as possible. New members cordially well comed
 The second biennial convention of the
 Worlds w.. c: T. U. opened Monday
 morning, October 16. The absence of our "best-beloyed leader," as Mrs. Wood,
 bridge so aptly called her, tinged with sadness the joy of the occasion. Yet, to quote still Mrs. Woodbridge's forceful words, "second only to the welcome we would give to her," was the welcome ot white -ribboners to the "W.C.T.U. Queen of Great Britain"
 The w. c. T. U. is organized in forty- eight different countries, thirteen of which sent delegates to this convention. At one time women from twenty-five foreign lands sat upon the platform.
 The convention was admirably presided over by Lady Henry Somerset, who cross- ed the sea that she might preside in Miss Willard's enforced absence. She has thus added another to the many proofs already given of her love for our leader, and for | the white ribbon movement and it's work CTS.
 l The addresses of welcome were many and appropriate. Hon. c. O.. Bonney, president of the Worlds Congress Auxil- iary, said that the w. c. T. U. stood as the foremost representative of the woman movement, but, notwithstanding the mis- conceptions on the part of some, it sought only to give women their rightful place in the state.
 Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Charles Hen rotin, Dr. Josiah Strong, Archbishop Ire- land, Anthony Comstock, and many oth- CTS gave a few words of cheer.
 Lady Henry spoke briefly in her own charming way. She craved the indulgence of the convention for being obliged to take the part of an "understudy," saying that while it was difficult to take any one's part, it was an impossibility for any one to take Frances Willard's part.
 Monday afternoon brief, interesting speeches were made by foreign delegates. speeches were made by foreign delegates. Mrs. Ella Williams, president Dominion w. 0. T. U., brought greetings from eight l thousand Canadian sisters of the white ribbon. Also Mrs. Cunningham and Miss Lillian Phelps spoke for the work on the | other side of "that imaginary line," on one side of which Mrs. Williams told us | tradition would have us believe the Brit ish lion roars, while on the other side the American eagle screams defiance, but neither of which in any way interferes with the passage of the ite-ribboner. Miss de Broen, of France, told us of the be- ginnings of the work in her native land, and of that unique window in Paris bear ing the letters, w. c. T. U., the Mecca of white-ribboners and of women who need a friend, the educator of the many who pause to inquire the meaning of those mystic letters. Miss Conybeare, Mrs. Stanley ! Mathews, Miss Emily Pierce, Mrs. Muff, Miss Alys Pearsall Smith and Mrs. James Emmette gave reports of different phases | of the work in England. Mrs. Magnus- son, of Iceland, let us know that temper ance was known in her far-away island. Miss Anna Smith represented the union of Natal South Africa, Mrs. Chika Sakurai brought good cheer from Japan, and Mrs. Smith was present that we might know that New Zealand furnishes one wing of the white-ribbon army.
 Tuesday was occupied quite largely with reports. Miss Kimball, superintendent of Sunday school work, reported the final ' success of the effort of this department to ! secure quarterly temperance lessons in the regular course of the International Sunday school series. This means the reaching of 17,0OO,OOO children, and Miss Kimball said, ''the Sunday school of to- | day is the church of tomorrow, and when we have the church for temperance, we have the world"
 Mrs. Mary H. Hunt. superintendent of scientific temperance instruction, reported that not only did the United States have compulsory scientific temperance instruc- tion in all of it's public schools, with the exception of six states, but that the cause is spreading rapidly through foreign lands. Sweden, Norway Finland in Russia, Natal in South Africa, and most of the prov inces of Canada have temperance educa- tional laws. Several of these countries use as text books translations of the books issued by the W. c. T. U. department of scientific temperance instruction which are so generally used in our own land. There is good reason to hope, too, that the work will soon go on. The Russian minister of education and the Gear of all the Russias" have our laws and text books under consideration. Our books have been translated into Chinese and Japanese, and every effort will be made to have them introduced as textbooks into the schools of those countries.
 Mrs. Nichols, superintendent of fairs and expositions, pointed out that the way in which these countries found out that there was Mrs. Hunt and scientific tenn perance instruction was by men of infiu- ence from these nations seeing the w. c. T. U. pavilion where text books were giv-