The Press., 1896-07-30

. WASHINGTON SOCIAL BY DELLA
 NICHOLS GARDNER.
 A distinguished kindergartener said to her pupils that the gifts she presented to them were not theirs until they had said "thank you"
 Some of you have presented gifts to our W. 0. T. U. We take this oppor- tunity to make them fully ours by ex- pressing our appreciation of them.
 Like our Master we have not "where to lay our heads' so we have been glad to accept the hospitality of the different churches for holding public meetings and social gatherings. We wish to thank the Ladies Aid Society of this church for the use of their parlors while entertaining our distinguished guests of the evening and their friends. We are grateful to all who have so admirably helped to enter tain our friends.
 Some of you have given us money from time to time, and we will try to tell you what use we have made of it, hoping that "where your treasure is there will your hearts be also"
 Twenty-four cents of each regular members membership fee goes into the treasury of the State w. c. T. U. Of that twenty-four cents, ten cents goes in- to the treasury of the National w. c. T. U. The remaining twenty-six cents goes into our local treasury. The dollar re- ceived from each honorary member re- mains in our local treasury.
 As many of you knows 1t has been our custom to ask for "freewill off ering" each year. The amount received from our friends for this purpose is divided equally between the state, county and local treasuries.
 Altho' we have ideas concerning poli- tics we give no money to any political party.
 Our national union has over fifty de- partments, each under charge of a na- tiOnal superintendent who devises plans for national work in her department and makes suggestions to the state superin- tendent. The state superintendent makes suggestions to the county superintendent and the county superintendent suggests to the local superintendent of her depart ment.
 The departments and general plans are devised by national executive commit tee. Recommendations are made by this I,,A T by any resolution or recommendation made by the national convention. As Miss Willard tersely puts it, the only conditions of membership in the w. c. T., U. are 'Fpay your dues and never drink" The state and local unions select from the various departments those best adapted to their localities and to their in- dividual workers.
 The mem bers of our local union have, thro' their relations to the state and na- tional unions, helped to secure the pass age of the Scientific Temperance Instruc- tive Law in forty states and territories of the United States. The Connecticut State Union has secured the passage of the fol- lowing law:
 SECTION 1. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruc- tion as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools, and shall be studied and taught as other like required branches, by the use of graded textbooks in the hands oi pupils where other branches are thus studied, and orally in the case of pupils unable to read, and by all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money.
 SEQ. 3. The textbooks used for the instruction required by the preceding sec tion for intermediate and primary pupils shall give at least One-fifth of their space to the consideration of the nature anC effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and the books used in the highest grade of graded schools shall contain at leas twenty pages of matter relating to thi! subject; but when this subject is masseC wholly or in part in a chapter or chapter at the end of a book, such book shall no be considered as meeting the require ments of this law.
 
 school visitors to report to the comptrol Ter if the provisions of this act have no been complied with, as specified in thu preceding sections; and any failure thu reported, or otherwise satisfactoril, proven, shall be deemed sufficient caus for withholding the amount of school divi dend which such district or districts ar otherwise entitled to receive.
 SEQ. 4. No certificate shall hereafte be granted to any person to teach in tn public schools of Connecticut who ha not passed a satisfactory examination il physiology and hygiene with specia reference to the effects and nature of al cOhOlic drinks and other narcotics upO the human system.
 SEQ. 5. Sections 21OO and 2141 of tn general statutes are hereby repealed.
 Approved by Gov. L. B. MORRIS May 26, 1893.
 While the bill was pending the loca unions all over the state were circulating petitions in it's favor in their respectiv towns and writing letters to the congress men and state senators representing thei localities, asking them to aid, in ever possible way, the passage of the scientifi temperance instruction bill.
 But no law can be enforced unless 1 has public sentiment to back it. Gu Stafford Springs W. c. T. U. has a de partment of scientific temperance in struction with a superintendent who visit the schools and extends to the schoo board and the teachers our sympathy an aid in carrying out this plan. We furnisl the teachers of our public schools witt several copies of the "School Physiolog Journals" edited by Mrs. Mary Hunt and approved by her advisory board con sisting of Hon. w. T. Harris, U s. Com missioner of Education, Wm. Sheldon President National Teachers Association of 1887, and other men of like standing
 We appeal to you, parents, who desir to have your children taught, according