The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20
W.c.T.u.
A Glimpse OF Temperance Work Through
out the World.

"A Glimpse OF Temperance Work Through
out the World.
There was good attendance at the
November meeting Of the union held at
Mrs. j. W. HOughtOn's. Mrs. F. D. War
ren read graphic description of the
state meeting in Lima, and Mrs. C. D.
Gregg reported the leading features OF
the recent county meeting held in Lo-
rain. The December meeting will be
the first Tuesday Of the month at Mrs.
W. E. Peirce's.
Saloons and gambling houses in the
vicinity Of the Soldiers Home, in Wash
ington, have vanished, owing to the bill
fOrbidding such places within a mile
OF that institution.
There are l43 wOmen's colleges in the
United States. Twenty-Five and one
half per cent. of the population of the
United States are enrolled as pupils il.
schools and colleges.
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October A there occurred in Boston.
Mass, impressive ceremonies at the un-
yelling of the marble bust Of Mary A.
Liyermore. Anne Whitney, the sculp-
tor, was there, and many Of the co-labor.
ers and admires of Mrs. Livermore, who
paid deserved tribute to her life anG
work as the champion Of human liberty.
social purity, and temperance. Mrs.
LiyermOre responded in appreciation O.
the hour and had simply done what she
could.
Nebraska has just celebrated the twen-
ty-iirst anniversary of her State Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. She has
abundance of talent in her women, and
despite the drouth and financial stress,
their numbers had not fallen off. Sever.
al district presidents gave almost theil
entire time to receiving and distribut.
ing supplies in relief work last winter
and spring. The aid given Nebraska BY
this great organization in the Older
states won for it many friends.
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Sweden, Finland, Can ada and parts
OF Australia have followed the example
of the United States and framed similar
laws, making scientific temperance in
struction mandatory. The mission
schools Of Turkey, China, Bul
garia, South Africa and thu
Danish West Indies are intro
ducing this education, while philanthro-
phists of England, France, Russia, Den
mark, New Zealand and other countries
are inquiring and agitating. Ameri.
can textbooks have been translated int
the languages of six different foreign
countries and are now in their schools.
Books and cuts for illustration have been
sent by request to still other countries.
where they have served az the basis OF
school texts written from native stand,
point. The children Of Japan, Sweden
and Norway, the Sandwich Islands.
Siam, India, Finland and China are to.
day using physiOlogies prepared fol
them in America. Forty-twO of the
United States now have scientific tenn
perance instruction taught in their
schools. AT the time Of the worlds fair
of the thirty-eight states having manda-
tory laws, thirty-fve had school exhibit.
at Chicago, and showed as good work il
this as in other branches, considering
the introduction of new textbooks.
Specially meritoriOus work in primary
grades revealed the interest and profci-
ency of both teacher and pupils. Con,
densed from Union Signal.
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Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, of thu
salvation army, in over a column Of the
Union Signal, Of October 3, denies EN-
phatically the widely-cOpied, perverted
and exaggerated report Of her speech
upon the New Woman" She is grieved
beyond measure to be so misquOted and
misrepresented. She declares that for
the advanced woman she has only the
highest praise. She did inveigh against
free-lOye notions, vicious literature, Gig
arettes and chewing gum and the abom-
nations that all good and refined women
hate, but she did not mention the word
"blOOmers," or criticise reform in any
way, or disparage wOmans broadest
culture or increased usefulness. The
new woman is pre-eminently a Chris
tian woman and she is with her in.
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