The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-16
HEIR TO MILLIONS.
BUT TAKES UP A LIFE OF SELF
SACRIFICE.
Sister In London Slums-She Has Min
istered to the City's Needy and IL
Now an Angel to the City's Fallen
Women. q

The Salvation Army has played
sad havoc in the life of Millionaire
Warner Van Norden, president, of the
Bank of North America. Within a few
years it has won over his two beauti-
full daughters, removed them out of
their natural sphere of lire. defeated
his ambitious projects, and laughed
scornfully at all his plans. Nine years
ago it got his oldest daughter, Emma,
in its grasp and sent her across the
sea and out of her fathers life. She
is now in London, an angel among
the fallen women of the slums. And
last week his second daughter, Cora,
fell under the spell he dreaded, re-
nounced society, gave up all her asso-
Citations, and, like her sister, Joined
the Salvation Army. She is now a
worker in the ranks, ready to obey
commands that may send her to the
other side of the earth. Duty, she
says, has ordered her to spend her life
in sacrifice.
Cora Van Norden is a stately girl
whose beauty and accomplishments
made her popular with her set. She
was a belle in the exclusive society Of
New York and Newport-a society
that gave quick recognition to her
charms of mind and person. Yet So
cial conquest yielded her no real salts
faction. She quickly realized the
emptiness of the life. She often said
to her intimates that she should be
out among the poor doing good rather
than attending social functions. No
doubt her sisters example influenced
her. Frequently, at the most unex-
pected times, she would interrupt con-
versation by saying: Il wonder what
Emma is doing now? Nine years be-
fore, Emma had deserted home and
In 1893 she had been sent to London,
and there she had labored ever since.
She had fed the hungry, succored the
i'll, and given medicine and flowers to
the sick. Perhaps, too, the religious
home life of the Van Nordens influ-
enced the second daughter of the
house to take up the burden of the
weak. Her father is a man of deep
religious convictions, an active men,
Der of the Madison Avenue Reformed
church, and the superintendent of the
Sunday school. He is in thorough ac-
cord with the religious spirit of his
daughters, but objects strongly to the
mode of it's expression. 1t breaks his
heart, he says, to have his daughters
leave him. One of Miss Van Norden's
intimates in her Salvation Army work
is Lieut-Col. Allce Tucker. She has
also charge of the Young Soldier, a
Salvation Army publication. Speaking
of the new recruit Miss Lewis said:
''Miss Van Norden is not an officer;
in fact, she cannot be called much
more than a recruit. She is most en-
thusiastic about the work the army is
engaged in, and we are very happy
to think that she is going to labor
with u.s." Miss Van Norden is at pres
ent acting as assistant editor of the
Young Soldier. She spends five days
of each week at the headquarters OF
the Salvation Army on Fourteenth
street. AS yet she does not wear the
uniform of the army, but dresses in
stead in tailor-made gowns of the lat
est mode. Miss Van Norden is living
at present with her father at the Meth
erland hotel, but those who know her
best say that she will soon take up her
abode in the army headquarters.