The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-24

WOMAN'S SPHERE.
Miss Kate Lunden's Excuse
for Her Sex's Place
in Temperance
Reform.
W. c. T. u. AT KEARNY
semi-Annual Conference and School
of Methods Held Today.
c. T. U. AT KEARNY

Temperance Union of Hudson County is
being held today in the Knox Presby-
terrain Church. Kearny avenue, Kearny.
The morning session vas opened at ten
o'clock with devotional exercises led by
Mrs. J. w. COPELAND. The platform was
decorated in honor of the union. AT the
back of the pulpit a picture of Miss
Frances Willard, draped in white was
hung above a large Welcome made of
evergreens. The banners of the union
Were hung on the platform and sprays
of ivy We're gracefully festooned in the
| white. After the devotional exercises
| Mrs. B. N. Whitehead and the Rev. j. F.
Folsom welcomed the Union. They both
expressed their pleasure in having the
Union and said they were certain Kearny
would be greatly benefited by the meet
ing. Mrs. c. Story, of jersey City, presi-
dent of the Union, responded to the well
come. She said the Union always visited
the weakest Unions so as to help them
and rouse their enthusiasm. She thanked
them for their cordial welcomes.
The Secretary, Mrs. T. J.. Kennedy,
called the roll of the officers of the
| County Union and presidents of the local
unions. Each lady answered the roll call
with a Bible verse. She then read the
minutes of the executive meetings in the
last six months. Mrs. Story appointed the
following committees RESOLUTIONS, Miss
Raymond, Mrs. Rowlands and Mrs. Cou-
pland; Courtesy, Miss Jackson and Miss
Floto; Pages, Miss Alice Banta, Miss Ret
ia Smith. Miss Jackson read the report
of the Treasurer, Mrs. E. S. Van De
Werken. The total receipts of the Union
for the six months were $110.23, and the
total expenditures, $91.T.
Miss Page, Superintendent of Literal
ture, told the members of the Union
where they could get temperance 1itera-
ture and instructed them as to the proper
way of answering the questions sent by
the Literature Department.
Mrs. E. r. Fuller, State Superintendent
of the Flower Mission, introduced her re-
port by saying:-sT believe in the total
prohibition of the manufacture aud sale
of liquor and 1 don't believe we'll ever
get it till the women vote. So now you
know where I stand on the suffrage ques-
ton. On the ninth of June we take a
bunch of flowers, something white, some
thing bright and something sweet, tied
with white ribbon to every institution,
public and private. These flowers are the
cause of many conversions. Some peo-
pie think we shouldn't take flowers 60
prisoners; they say the prisoners deserve
| all they get. But there are so many boy
and girls who never have their rights,
who are brought up without any training,
and while Goo blesses the work of the
Flower Mission, it is right for US to con-
tinue it." Mrs. Fuller closed with an ear
nest appeal to all to give flowers and
pleasant words to people in life and not
save them for funerals. Mrs. Fuller adj
ded that on the 9th of June this year
! flowers will be given to- the motormen,
conductors and engineers as they start to
their work in the morning.
Mrs. M. j. Beach, Superintendent of
! Scientific Temperance Instruction, said
little has been done in the county schools
this year. She urged each Union to APP
point a superintendent to look after the
work in the district, and see that the
teachers in the schools know how to
teach the effect of alcohol on the sys-
tenn.
Mrs. Rickard, Superintendent of Mis-
sion Work, said:-"There have been two
canal boat meetings., the poor and sick
1 nave been VlSll6u. rOutOOOl luCCllA5S iAo -
been held on the rocks. l find that the
more we; try to do the more there is to
do. We want an organ given to US;
that is all we need"
Just. then Mrs. Story interrupted with.
.sYou have it! There's one at the music
store now being liked for you" Mrs.
Story said this mission, which is the
Soldiers and Sailors Mission. on Grand
street. one block from the river. is in
such a horrible neighborhood that the
policeman on the beat told them they
were very brave to enter it. At frst-they
were greatly prosecuted, but now, after
proving their interest in the people, by
helping them in their homes, they are
welcomed.
Mrs. Wilson of Railway, Mrs. Row
lands, Mrs. Hammer and Miss Lunden
were introduced to the convention. Mrs.
Beach led in the noontide prayer, the
collection was taken up and the meeting
adjourned for luncheon.
Mrs. Searles of Jersey City opened the
afternoon session at 1:30 with devotional
services. Mrs, T. j. Kennedy sang a
solo, accompanied by Miss Retta Smith.
Mrs. Bourne, the President of the State
Union. conducted what was called on the
programme, 1.-THE Model Union" which
was a Parliamentary drill, showing the
way matters should be conducted at local
union meetings.
Miss Kate Lunden gave the address Of
! the afternoon on .Woman's Place in
Temperance Reform" She drew several
pictures of the dreadful effects of alco-
! hor on the home, of the fathers made
| ~runkards the idiot children and the
homeless widows, and said:-tThere is no
| reform tina touches the home so closely
as the temperance reform. AS a logical
conclusion the home maker should be
! ound. in the first ranks of the temper
ance host. The reptile of intemperanee
digs graves at the rate of $4,000 to- 100,0 900
every year. Let us look at the living. In
the prisons, p~oorhouses, insane asylums,
hospitals, we find them stung by this
reptile. A woman is eminently in her
place and sphere when she tries to keep
! the atmosphere of the home pure. With
| her knowledge of the repeated attempts
! to legalize vice it would be strange ii she
did not yearn for the privilege of passing
a measure that would make the impor-
| tation Of European C. D. acts impossible.
| 1t may be argued that man., not woman,
is the natural protector of the home. |
recognize the force of the argument and
| think 1 can safely say when he success
fully assumes that role woman will un-
| ~grudgingiy waive her rights to. the title
ana gratefully accept his protection. To
sum up the matter woman should occupy
the place in the temperance reform
i she Is the home maker. she trains the
fut11re citizens and the future mothers