New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-31
FRANCES f. WILLARD.
SHE TALKS MOST LOVINGLY OF LADY
HENRY SOMERSET
PRETTY STORY OF LITTLE MARY AND WORDS

PRETTY STORY OF LITTLE MARY AND WORDS
or GOOD CHER AND HOPE FOB EVERY
BODY. GUEST AT THE EMPIRE
On her present visit 10 Network Miss willard
u.as manning TO go 10 a college settlement Of
which work she IS a great admirer, but her friends
'elt that she was not rugged enough for such an
exnerence lust now. and when Mr.. Quinn, the
genial host Of the Royal Empire. learned that Miss
Willard was seeking an eligible location for few
weeks he most kindly invited her 10 he MS guest
With her lifelong friend. Miss Gordon. and her
faithful stenorraphor Miss Powderiy Tribune
reporter found Miss Willard writing In the bay
window Of her beautiful apartment at the hotel
and wearing her favorite gown Of rooins-esg pine
trimmed with soft lace. She sits most or the TINE
in rockirg-chair near the window beside her
vork-fable strewn with letters articles and papers
from every corner Of Christcndom for the ". G..
IT T. has ten thousand local auxiliaries in this
country alone With the on her soft hair
she is rendered a pretty sight and one is not sur
prised that the hotel servants are eager 10 answer
her bell and almost contend for the privilege ot
carving her meals up She drives OFT often. end
while pushing many plans for building I'd the
white ribbon organization she Is for the present
resting from public speaking. Miss Willard has
been weunigh restored to health by the SIKH OF
T. Alfred X. HIS Of Fifth-aTe.. Editor ~
''The Medical Times" which celebrated its twenty
ffta anniversary few weeks ago Her one grief
IS the illness Of her intimate AMI beloved friend.
adv Henry Somerset: When speaking of her Miss
Willard said
PRAISE FOR LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
Lady Henry has given twelve years OF constant
activity 10 temperance reform. do no. believe that
any other woman ever laid so many gifts upon Its
shrine She is the daughter Of an Earl the inherioI
r. wealth and the possessor Of gerius. beauty and
charm She has voice as sweet p fate and Of a
compass capable Of easily reaching ten thousand per-
sons with an enunciaton that has hardly been OK
cel4d upon the stage. She has sif Of ooquonc' In
speaking that has made her the foremost woman
orator OF her time End gift cf writing that has
been characterized I'm terms Of highest commend
ton BY literary experts To crown all these sh"
nas 4 tender faith and spirituality rradiatinS an
her daily life and a hunor and bonhome so rare
that they perhaps the first qualities noted or
meeting her. I am more grieved 'han can tell
that she could not continue in the work 10 which
she brought devotion that knew no metes or
hounds The misfortune 81 losing her. through over
work from the white ribbon army III England IS
greater than any other that We have vet sustained
IN closing her letter Of resignation 70 the British
women Lady Henry quotes the pathetic coupet:
My hslf-days work is done.
To give patient God
Nv patient heart
Blu. we will not permit ourselve, 10 think that
81. Will be no more among US. Other and better
days may dawn. and meanwhile 81 comforts me-
70 know that but express the loyalty OF her
contracts
ration which they Will accept as richly deserved
hy one whom they have learned TO love 50 warmly
LITTLE MARY"
Miss wizards every wish and thought seems 70
Re interpreted by Miss Gordon. Loyalty assisted by
Mss Mary Powderly II must tell YOU about
little Mary" said Miss Willard IN The Tribune
reporter u am sure your readers Will he inter-
ested 10 know about one more successful little
porkingwomen.
she vas LEFT an orphan az fifteen years Of age
end was graduated from the High Scnoo OF her na-
tive town near Boston. q few months laier she "ds
wholly dependent on her own eNeruons ior sup
port, and after leaving school went into store
where tho pay was poor that within short iime
she tried her hand in q shoe factory 'oidlhS me
hutton-aps Of shoes. Here she worked three years
tho highest wages being 81 a week and ma her
self She had good physique. fine wci-po-
portioned figure and intelligent face. cVncins IN
usual native refinement. high sentiment and the
three REFERENCES without which any life is worm
less T. g. reverence for ones self for COD ana LOT
humanity ! mean she was q girl OF h4Sh chai-
ecter which as learned. she had partly inherited
from her mother ard had partly acquired as "a
result OF that mothers devoted teachings and the
loving and loyal memory always cherished Of her
bv her daughter. II was natural for q giil
made UP in this 10 aspire 10 the best OF "hi'h
she was capable as IT g. TO live. Sitting one day
m work over her button-laps K occurred 10 her
next summer as a waitress IN Il seaside hotel She
therefore went 10 the Young Womcns Christian
Association in Boston. and asked the good women
there 10 Use their influence in getting hcr this oppor
funity which they were glad 10 do In company win
another young woman who had been her oa 'sma'o
and was a distant relative. she went 10 a seaside
resort near Boston. IN nine weeks She canned SO
outside OF expenses. and putting this with 900
hat he had saved when she worked IN IA" snp''
factory She went to Boston and arranged with
a teacher OF shorthand 10 take the prescribed
course he agreeing 10 wall fOf part or MS pay
until she had earned onc-haf The Zee ny ncr work
as a sfonographcr She paid 81 on entering me
school and afterward So month for eieht months.
The money she had saved enabled nfr ID DodIu IN
the ci,v where she lived rs simply as posSip'
but she had happy knack OF making toll,i tn"t
was nor only wholesome but attractive. llousn
inexpensive. and this was prime factor IN her
success She lived at home the summer following
her studies AZ practiscd her new art 10 inc pc
of her aLilif, , turning ia September 10 inc Sthopi
10 get M speed by rapid dictstlon. ~ was ih'Ic
that f,uud her and She has been win me 'N'I
since almost three years. she corH mol 40 iapli
work az frst as she had ohy been snort Ume
in the school when my call came. but shc wa. 30
earnest and enfcrprsing that ""S Hyt' I'M" " -,
ing TO put up with that, ana S"' "'" "''' W. ~
called an expert. u..... ,,,,.noo, r.a.