The Press., 1894-05-03
w. e. r. U. DEPARTMENT.

w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
 In Damascus drunken men are called victims of nthe English disease"
 Great Britain's drink bill is attracting worldwide attention.
 The Iowa legislature has extended mu. nicipal suffrage to women with certain limitations.
 The w. 0. T. U., of Fremont, Neb., has paid in full for its temperance temple, which was built at a cost of $10,0O0.
 The w. c. T. U. of Delwein, Iowa, has closed up twelve of the thirteen saloons, and the proprietor of the last one Is on trial.
 Business men of New York City, who have in their employment twenty thou- sand boys, have determined to give the preference to boys that do not smoke cigarettes.
 White ribboners everywhere will rejoice to know that cheering reports are received at national w. O. T. U. headquarters in regard to Miss Willard's health, and that she intends to sail for this country early in June.
 In one place in Africa. one missionary and 50,0O0 barrels of whiskey were landed at the same tine. From January 1st, 1,858 101 gallons of run shipped from Boston to that country.
 It is announced that Harvard College faculty has issued an order prohibiting punch or distilled liquors in any college room on class or commencement days. This preventive action is the result of the disgraceful state of affairs there on last commencement day.
 Methodists of Los Angeles County, Cal ifornia, have called convention to con- sider how best to practically carry out the declarations of the general conference of the M. E. church, that "no political party has right to expect, nor ought 1t to receive, the support of Christian men, as long as 1t stands committed to the H. cense policy, or refuses to put itself on record in an attitude of open hostility to the saloon."
 Reports at the twentieth annual meet- ing of the Chicago Central W. c. T. U. showed an expenditure for the year of $10, ,596 in maintaining its various branch es of work-namely the Bethesda Kinder garten, Sunday school and gospel meet ings; the Taloott day nursery; the moth- ers' meetings and relief work the An chorage mission and the Willard Hall noon meetings. Mrs. M. B. Carse was again elected president of the union.
 The "one-standard" phase of the social purity movement has received notable rec ognition in the verdict given in the Pol lard -Breckinridge case, and in the con- demnation of the man by various socie- ties. This is cause for rejoicing. At the same time the same publication of the de- tails of the evidence by reputable family newspapers has doubtless done irTepara- ble harm to the youth of the nation, and is to be deplored and condemned by all lovers of purity.
 The mulct tax bill has passed the Iowa legislature by small majority. It pro- vides for tax of six hundred dollars per annum upon every violator of the prohib- itory law, to be divided equally between the county and the municipality. In cities of five thousand and upward the consent of the city council and of property hold CTS residing within fifty feet of the place where liquor Is sold must be secured. In places of less than five thousand the con- sent of sixty five per cent. of the voters is necessary, or a majority of voters may suspend the clause which makes the pay ment of the tax under the existing law. , The woman suffrage bill was defeated be- fore this local option bill was passed. VI ha O-So %L lack of wisdom which .tha-stsse shows in enlargfng it's prisons and reformatories and asylums for the insane, instead of en- forcing truant laws, preventing the open ing of dens of iniquity, and forbidding the housing of human beings where disease fosters and spreads with the very breeze which keeps the tenants from stifiing. Among the many signs that changes for the better have begun, it mentions that l"That work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in inducing the state Legislatures to introduce into the public schools instruction on the effect of alco- holic and other stimulants upon the sys- tenn Is probably the most telling work that organization has done-telling be- cause preventive" ....-..
 The graduating exercises of the Train ing School for Nurses in connection with the National Temperance Hospital, oc- cured on the evening of Thursday, March 18th, at the hospital, 1919 Diversey Ave. There was large attendance. A fine pro- gram was executed to the satisfaction of all present. The address to the class was | Ia1j bx,n ~R ha staff of physicians who thought this class , was privileged and had much to do in go- ing out into the world trained to care for the sick in all cases without using alcohol , as remedial agent. The diplomas were presented by Mrs. l.. s. Rounds, state president of the w. c. T. U., who told that experience had many years ago taught her the lesson they had learned, when she refused to administer alcohol all though physicians had told her 1t was necessary. s
 There could be no more fitting title to 1 the biography of Mrs. Mary Thomson Hill
 Willard than that which is assigned to the forthcoming volume-"A Great Moth er." This book, written by her great , daughter, Frances E. Willard, and her }. kinswoman, Mrs. Minerva Brace Norton, with an introduction by Lady Henry Som- erset, will be handsomely Illustrated, and will not only contain full account of
 Madame Willard's interesting life, but | will present her individual ideas upon the bringing up of children, give many of sher wise sayings, and record the helpful incl dents of household in which she was the central feature. There could be no more beautiful object lesson on the secret oi growing old gracefully" than that pre- scented by this volume. The marvellous chapter entitled "A Great Sunset," which