Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-22

forms of cadet blue with broad white col
lars and cuffs. carrying messages to cele-
gates and officers
| 1t was not so very many years ago that
| these women were claSSed with fanatics.
| and they were advised to betake themselves
! to their several homes and there sit them
/ selves down in peace-so great and impos-
sibIe was the task that they would accom-
plish, SO far beyond their power to make
any impression whatever on the problem
that they attacked. But to-day, there is a
Worlds W. C. T. U. and the motto, For
God and Home and Every Land" bids fair
to float around the globe, while the union
now numbers among its members the most
progressive women of many countries.
Women who demand your admiration by
their intelligence their practical good
sense. and the fervor with which they con-
tinue their work even while the end they
would accomplish lies still so far in the
future.
Pre-eminent among these women stands
Miss Willard. Now you nray say. st am not
particularly interested in the temperance
cause"
But that does not mean that you are not
particularly interested in Miss Willard be-
! cause, if you once saw her preside. your
admiration would no longer be a matter
of free will. Not because of an imposing
presence, since, in point of size, that is
est the blUe-gowned figure in the presi-
dents chair simply because of her official
capacity. Hers Is a personality that at
tracts: the hint of physical frailty but in
tensifies the calm strength of her nature
which makes this little woman not only the
presiding officer. but the inspiring spirit of
this whole movement. throughout meet
ings there fall easily from her lips grace
fui replies. witty parties, or good-natured
restraining of over-active members. She
possesses also a most pleasing voice. In
gathering of women where the range of
the feminine voice runs from an intense
bass to a shrill soprano, a clear, soft tone
having good carrying power is a most
pleasing attribute. And Miss Willard's is
especially attractive because of a certain
unusual incubation, the same indescriba-
BILE quality that is heard in the voice of
Julia Marlowe Taber. Miss Willard is in
tensely interested in the Armenian relief
work-she and Lady Somerset having taken
a practical and material interest in the
friendiess refugees, and have also assisted
in this country the native Armenian work
er, Miss Rebecca Krikorian.
In this day of the Armenian horror and
question, it is interesting to listen to this
young woman, who was especially sought
by the soldiers in the time of massacre be-
cause of her active Christian work She
of her country-a neatly fitting dress of
light yellow, with a mantle of the yellow
and red, which covers her head and shoul-
ders and falls to her feet. She has an
Oriental face-dark, with angular features
and large dark eyes, which ever show the
fire of her ardor to assist more rapidly and
certainly her people; and not only the Ar
menians, but to carry to the Turks the
seeds of the faith which has been the MAIN
spring of the Armenian life. Miss Kri-
korian speaks vividly, intensely picturing
the story of the Turks and Armenians as
she knows it-as only an Armenian of Ar
menia can-and yet at the end she can ask,
not that death and destruction follow and
fall upon her peoples enemy, but that the
love of Christianity might be taught among
them to support the cruelty of the Moham-
medan teachings. For the women of En-
gland and America who have assisted her,
Miss Krikorian has undying gratitude, and
for Miss Willard-Fran-ces Willard, as
she speaks it-she has unbounded love.
But they all seem to have this affection
for Miss Willard. Miss Agnes Slack, of
England, the young worlds secretary.