The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-05

DEL SARqE TEMPERANCE
Features of the Young Wo-
mems Conference at
North Baptist
Church.
HYMNS IN pANToMIME
Mrs. Boole's Army Of Figures on
the Liquor Question-All
Sorts OF Resolutions.
HYMNS IN PANTOMIME

New Jersey, at the North Baptist Church.
The session last night was held in the
auditorium of the church, which was
tastefully decorated by the Decorating
Committee, Mrs. G. H. Banta and Mrs.
L. Titus. The plants were furnished by
Messrs. Cole and Bonnot.
Mrs Kate Raphael, of Ocean Grove,
State Secretary of the Young Womens
Branch, presided at last nights session.
Mrs Edwin MacMinn, of this city, led
the devotional exercises Mrs. Isabelle
Demarest, of Gloucester, led in prayer.
Pastor Benjamin Otto, of the North
Baptist Church, was down on the pro-
gramme to welcome the visitors, but
was unable to be present on account of
illness. The delegates, however, were
warmly welcomed by President Robert
"A Alberts, of the Hudson County Chris
tian Endeavor Union; President Edwin
Nichols, of the Baptist Young Peoples
Association, north; and Miss L. Jackson,
of the Y w. C. T. u, of this city. Miss
Woodruff, of Roseville, responded.
The evening session was mainly devoted
to the address of Mrs. Ella Boole, Gen
eral Secretary of the Young Woman s
Branch of the National w. c. T. U. Miss
Maud Muller, State Superintendent of
Physical Education, delighted all present
with drill embodying the poses of ANA
zonian statues, and a pantomime repre-
senting in motion and gesture the emo
tions of that inspired song, Nearer, My
God to Thee
Mrs. Bodies address was illustrated
with chart, which she prepared as she
II. n, 10 rl
square blank sheet resting on an easel
she pinned various wide strips of ribbons
perpendicularly, representing by their
heights the various amounts expended by
the nation for rum. tobacco, bread, tea,
coffee and cocoa, woolen and cotton
goods, public education, ministers salar-
les and for the maintenance of foreign
missions. Using these columns she began
to use her own language, to reconstruct
them as the foundations for new repub-
Hc BY taking off various necessary per-
centages from the enormous drink and
tobacco columns, and adding them to the
others. she wiped out both and made a
very perceptible difference in the heights
of the others. Then, to use her express
sion. she began "a celebration" and be-
forershe completed the chart was trans
formed into banner with a red, white
and blue border surmounted by an Amer
lean eagle, holding a bunch of flags in its
talons.
The various columns, as at first exhibit
ed. showed that as a nation we spent for
drink 81 500 900 600; for tobacco, $500, 100000;
for bread, $780, 100000; for clothing, $751;
600 900; for meat, s4OO, ,000. .0G0; for boots and
nnan nNn. f<,, nt,6
$3.50. 900 OO0 for sugar and molasses, $117-
100000; for schools, S15s 200, 900; for preach
ers' salaries, s25, 100000; for missionary
purposes, $40, 600.
In drawing down the white ribbon over
the drink column, Mrs Boole caused it to
disappear on basis of percentages taken
from if to add to the other columns at
the following rate: 20 per cent. to the
bread bill; 33 1-3 per cent. to the meat
bill; 80 1-3 per cent. to the cotton anc
wooIlen bill; 33 1-3 per cent. to the boot
and shoe bill; 33 1-S per cent. to the tea
and coffee bill; 3S 1-3 per cent. to the
sugar and molasses BILL 200 per cent.
to the school bill; 200 per cent. to min
isters' salaries; 200 per cent. to missions,
and so on. The balance of something like
1924. 900. 900 she would divide to good roads
in order to give bicyclists and Coxey' S
army chance. In alluding to>the
amount for the maintenance OF schools,
Mrs. Boole declared that every boy and
girl in the nation should be given the
best education it was possible to give
them and that as they were educated
side by side, and stood side by side in
the battle Of life, in all occupations in
which they enter as bread winners, they
should receive the same compensation.
In decorating her New Republic with
national colors the speaker said she
thought the saloons had been decorating
long enough. 1t was a noticeable fact
that the saloon decorated with the ma
tional colors on every holiday. 1t was not
enough, she thought, to pass law COM
pelling the floating of flag over every
school house. A law should be passed
prohibiting every saloon from using the
national colors in decorating. The decor
alton of saloons with the national colors,
she declared, did more to teach lack
of patriotism than the decoration of the
school with the same colors taught pa
triotism.
Mrs Boole said she was delighted to be
engaged in such work as that taught by
the Y-Branch of the Union. 1t was a
work in the interest of the young woman
hood of the nation. Its notices did not
REQUIRE alone total abstinence, for total
abstinence, but purity for purity, right
eousness for righteousness white life
for a white life.
1t was a great part in the work of es-
tablishing young men and young women
in temperance. AS the financial stand
ard of a nation might be gold or silver
or both. but its true wealth was its
manhood and womanhood. She was glad
to represent 10000 young women who had
banded together to enforce the mottoes
IL the society and demand purity for
| purity. a. white. life for white life.
The Y. Branch of the w. c. T. U. de-
manded unlimited coinage in aratio OF
equality in the highest standard OF
American citizenship.
The final session took place this morn
ing. Devotions were led by Miss Maud
Cox of Bridgeton The report Of the
secretary showed that sixteen Of the
twenty-eight State unions had been rep.
resented. The State secretafsss report
| showed that the membership Of the Y
branch IN the Statesis 75s. Several inter
esting papers were read. Mrs " Cox
National SUPERINTENDENT Sabbath OBJ
servance. read one entitled All tbs