St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-08
NOTED WOMEN At HOME.
Frances e. Willard and Her
Labors for Temperance.
The Career Of One of the Most Nenanrh-
able Women of sEsc Tinie-GrOwtil
VI the Woinan's Temperance
Union.

1t is just fifty years since very pretty
girl-baby was born to q worthy couple In
the town of Ogden, New York state. So
dainty and attractive was she that the folks
about called her "the doll-baby of the viii
lage." Blue eyes, delicate features and hair
that had caught few stray glints Of the
sunshine, added to sweet disposition, made
the child general pet with everybody, and
1t was wonder that people did not spoil her
with adulation. Her mother was, in many
respects, remarkable woman; pious, cul-
tured, fond Of poetry, and of good music.
The youth Of FRANCES Z. Willard, after the
first few years Of childhood, was spent in
Oberlin, Ohio to which town her parents
had removed. "Blue-eyes'' was precocious
and, even in her fourth year, had very pro-
nounced ideas OF her own about many
things. The next move was to Wisconsin,
where the family passed free, wholesome
life among the fields and woods, and
where the education, already begun, was
continued by the studies of poetry, philoso-
ply, botany and manual work of all kinds,
the whole tinctured with O strong leaven Of
religion. Under such tuition, the children
grew up self-reliant, truthful and intelligent.
They rode and hunted together, worked
together and studied in company, like the
best of comrades But even the joys of
prairie life may have an end, and the day
came when Frances Willard longed for some
thing higher and broader than her back
woods environment. Although she did not
know it, the germ Of the emancipation idea
had already taken root in her mind, and In
many matters she was fast becoming a
Philistine She took deep interest In abol-
ton, and found her earliest impulse to phil
anthropy in the anti-slavery publications of
the day. With the aid Of her brother Oliver,
at fourteen, she established little three
column paper called The Forest Home tribune,
which they set up and printed on the farm.
Shortly after this experiment, she began
literary work in earnest.
Few girls have been possessed with such
passion for learning. While at the North
western Female College, Evanston, she broke
down from over-study, often rising at a. m,
and sticking to her task so resolutey that
she has been known to fall asleep, face down
ward, on her books from sheer fatigue. At
twenty, she left the college to make her cwn
way in the world and earn her own living
Her first venture at self-support was as
"school-ma'am - and she solaced herself for
the monotony of the drudgery by reading
Epictetus and Plato, between sessions. Step
by STEP she rose on the intellectual ladder,
and every passing pear showed broadening
and filing out of that remarkable character
which has since become so famous.
On returning from Europe in 1868, where,
as she loves to admit, she event to see the
sights, took wine and did things she never did.
and never could do, at home,'' she became
President of the Evanston College for ladies
and it was when this episode ended that
she launched on that temperance work which
has now become the principal labor of her
life. Most people will remember the spirited
crusade of the women of Evanston, eleven
years ago, against the saloons when the
publicans were fairly routed, their stores
closed, their liquors emptied into the sewers
and the whole place stirred up in wildly
pious ferment on the temperance question.
Miss Wizards ardent championship Of the