The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-18

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MISS WILLARD'S CAREER.
The Willards are an old English family.
The first American Willard was one OF
the founders of the famous town OF Con-
cord anu "a nOtaO-" hGbre IN carry NeW
England history. From him Miss wizard
comes eighth i'm direct line 81 descent
Her mother was "a native OF vermont
where she was born in lsO1. Her fa.hef,
too, was a Nermonter. Frances was porn
September lS, 1899, al Churchville, ONO.
As a child she went TO Wisconsin win
her Parents. living at Forest Home on
the Rock River from her seventh 10 her
nineteenth year. She was educated az
the Milwaukee Female College ana -ater
NJ the Northwestern University, RYAN
ston. and at nine,een became a school-
teacher. From loJa 10 1874 sne had tnir-
teen separate seasons OF teaching IN elcN-
en- separate institutions and SIX dincrenl
towns. the pupils IN all numbering ABOUT
300
MISS Willard i'm 1865 made a two-years'
trip to Europe with Miss Kate Jackson.
who defrayed the expense. They visited
Egypt, the Holy Land, Russia ana All
the rest Of Europe. 1ns European trlp
was Mss Willard one experience OF ne,
as worldlngs live It,. She says:
~ hree ,hings l did, OAce IN aNhlle.
dur ng my two years and four months OF
foreien travel. that lever did and never
90 at home. 1 went 10 see sights on sun
gay. went TO the tLeatre and look VINE
a. dinner"
She learned TO love Rudesheimer and
Grand Chartreuse, and, ia short, she d.d
in home as the Romans do, hon -sly
ayowiug. as she still ayoWs, tina. the
forbidden pleasures were sweet, ana were
alb ndOncd with q SIGH.
A TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE.
Miss Willard was thirty-hVe years ola
when She finally adop cd temperance
work as her vocation. although sna Was
I.Iar "a
mother Laving been If ions teeio,leis,
and their chi dren LcinS accustomed IIoHi
infancy 10 the representa- ION OF the case
against alcohol. AZ was not. however uh-
Ill 1873 that Miss Willard entered the
temperance felu as a miss onafy.
She was soon In the heat OF the tray IN
the cause of temperance. and shortly was
c.Osen president of the Woman Tenn
perance Society In Chicago. She cOntin-
ued her labOrs in the local held ana IN
the autumn Of lo9 was Instrumental an
the founding of the National woman
Temperance Union, Of which she was APP
pointed national secretary. In 1915 Miss
willard began a systematic tour OF the
American continent addr sslng meetings
in every town IN the Union or 5,yli or
more inhabitants. In the ten years from
1873 TO lSSS she averaged but three weeks
a year al home and addressed an average
of one meeting each day during the Wnoie
of that period.
Al Baitmcre in ISIS a proposal to en-
dorse won an suffrage as a temperanc
measure was r,jec.ed, but the of al
organ was permitted 70 publish reports or
the work Of societies on tnat hn Ihe
next year at Ind annapolis Miss who'd
was elected president OF the National w.
c. r. Ia post VII ch she has ueic ever
since. Under her preside cy the conven-
tion n xt year declared IN favor Of wo-
mans suffrage and the whole work OF
the orranization was revised.
FRIEND or TIE DOWNTRODDEN.
OF Miss wizards earty sympathy with
every progressive movement there Is no
need to sneak. Her absorbing idea for