The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN & scHMAHL.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. %, 1898.
THENATIONAL CONVENTION.
Some Interesting Features of thu
VIC, T. U. Gathering.

Some Interesting Features of the
VIC, T. U. Gathering.
The event of the past week in St.
Paul has been the annual meeting of
the National w. G. T. U. The city
has been full of women wearing white
ribbons, the insignia of their order, and
they hailed from every quarter of the
country. Among them we're the most
noted temperance reformers. preach
ers, evangelists and women suffrage
lecturers this nation affords. Some
we're so young as to retain the luscious
bloom of youth, others we're "fair fat
and forty" and still others showed in
their dropping forms that they we're
carrying the burdens of advanced age.
But they all had ideas of their own
and they knew how to express them.
A woman who likes to talk, and knows
how to talk and knows that she knows
how to talk, suffers for lack of oppor-
tunity to talk all he..wants to talk.
The women who participated in the
deliberations of this convention, how
ever, showed the effects of rigid disci-
pline in this respect. Only one talked
at time. and when she was talking
all the rest kept still. Now you might
wonder what there is about this fact
that is worth mentioning; lyou might
say that it is to be expected that the
rest would keep still when one was
talking. But when you who have OBJ
served remember that women, in large
or small bodies, love to talk all at once,
it is quite remarkable that several
hundred could be kept quiet for half
hour while one Of the number was talk
ing; and the fact that they did keep
quiet shows that they have been sub
jected to years of rigid discipline. But
these women we're brainy, we'll edu-
Gated, we'll read, cosmopolitan, pro-
gressive, persevering, and their whole
souls we're in their work. Their lofti-
ness of purpose and the uncommon
energy with which they prosecuted
their work furnish an example and an
inspiration to the opposite sex. Every
one of them is hero, and will ven
ture that every one who attended that
convention, if only for brief period,
and witnessed the serious, earnest con-
scientious and concerted work of these
women reformers went away with en-
lightened ideas and nobler impulses
Nearly every pulpit in the two cities
was filled last Sunday by one of these
women. 1 had the pleasure of listen.
ing to DR.. Anna Shaw in the morning
and Miss Belle Mix in the evening
DR.. Shaw was perhaps the strongest
woman, Intellectually, in the conven.
ton, and the best known. She belongs
to a denomination known as Protestant
Methodist, and has for years been the
regular pastor of church at Cape
Cod. Her text was: "What is &
man profited if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?" The ser
mon was power. The ideas advanced
we're profound and progressive, and be-
manner of speaking forceful aud i'm
pressive. Her voice was rich and full
and was easily heard in every corner o
the large room. She is apparent,
about IS, rather stout. with black
piercing eyes, silvery hair combe<
pompadour, and strong countenance
There we're present ministers, pro
fessors and students, all of whom list
ened with uncommon interest. Man,
of the ministers had the cobwebs an,
mildew brushed from their minds, an,
every one of them learned something
Miss Mix lives at Danville, lowe
and is secretary of the w. G, T. U. @
her State. Her lecture was upon tn
subject of social purity, and her life
devoted to reformation along ths
line. The lecture was the same tha
she had delivered at the w. G. T. [
convention and which made decide
sensation. She had also given it q
another church Sunday morning an