Delaware gazette and state journal., 1900-01-25

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"All true work is sacred: in all true
work, were it but true hand-labor
there is diyineness. ''-Thomas Carlyle.
A picture of Rest Cottage, 'known
and loved the world around /as the
home Of Frances i. Willard" adorns
the first page of the Union Signal of
December 2sth, which in the following
manner eoitorially comments upon 1t:
'Rest Cotage, the new home OF the
National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, is located in u city de-
scribed by Miss Willard as the chief |
Methodist town of ali time and space.
Only two miles from the city limits of
Chicago, while l2 from its centre, our
national officers will still be much in
demand for counsel and for aggressive
Temperance work in Chicago; while in
Evanston, city of 10000 population.
where eternal vigilance regarding the
enforcement of the prohibitory law is
the price of liberty from the accursed
traffic, their presence will be constant
help and uplift.
From Rest Cottage there will now
continue to go to every col iner of this
nation letters winged with the faith,
hone and love of leaders consecrated to
the great reform to which Miss Willard
gave her life" I"
Wishing to share with other societies
IN the Christmas festivities, the Smyrna
W. G. 4. U. held reception at the
home CT Mrs. Alfred Hudson Thursday
evening, December 2Sth. The dauph-
ter Of the home. Miss Susie, is assist:
ant superintendent of the Band OF
Hone, and her interest in the W. O.
II. U. means with all the rest, that the
doors of ono of the best adapted houses
in the town to large company are
often opened to the social gatherings
of the organization.
The bright rooms we're prettily deco.
rated for the reception. in holly and
evergreens: the white-ribbon, extended
across the hall from the parlor to the
sitting room door adding to the
effectiveness Guests weie met at the
door by Miss Sue Colt, Miss Emma
Charles II. Register and Mrs. Ella
| Griffith, and we're escorted to the
| parlor by them, and introduced to the
reception committee, composed of the
president OF the union, Mrs. Kate q.
Smithers; the vice. presidents, Mrs.
Rebecca Hough, Mrs. W. +. Corkran,
and Mrs. Jennie Faries; the, COR
responding secretary, Mrs. Lizzie
| Stevens and Mrs. L. H.. Haynes, treas
urer. Besides the many pleasant greet
ings the large company afforded, there
was delightful entertainment OF piano
music rendered by Prof. Virgil Gordon
of New York, Misses Bertha Smitbers
and Edith Beck Late in the evening
refreshments of chicken salad, coffee
and biscuit were served by com.
Inittee of the union, assisted by several
young ladies. The friends present
kindly regarded the reception as 0
social SUCCESS, while the memhers oi
the union were pleased with it from q
financial standpoint, rs il brought iEtt
the treasury nearly S15 in silyor offer
ings.
Y 1t is question whether we have q:
many parlor meetings as we should
have, for social qualities can b,
utilized for the advancement of tht
work. Like all other societies, w
need to interest some members VIII,
cheerfully pay their dues and stol
there; and we also want to bring int,
our ranks as many more as we can
, And one way to do both is to have
, pleasant social evening now and thel
, in the homes of members, with tn
, inner purpose Of bringing some phas
, or department of the W. O. L. U
, before the company, in an arrange'
programme interspersed, of course
with good music Eleven departments
= programmes for public meetings hav
appeared within, the last few month
|, in the Union Signal, and any of ther
. could be well used for parlor meeting
!" when unions do not wish to arrane
!. their own programmes. At tn
4 Marshallton-Stanton parlor meeting
reported in these notes a short tim
! ago, an admission of 10 cents wa
charged and similar plan could l
adopted by other unions fer the
parlor meetings, when circumstance
Z Justify it. Each local union is tt
), fourth wheel in our great organization
I, and part Of the aggregate of the al
f nual dues of GO cents per member mu
5, help revolve the harmonious machinei
n of the county, State and nation
e. organizations Last year eight unioi
n of the State each furnished room
l. mington, and six sent barrels of pr
la | NISiotn w II, a"obS pho huihbpi Va
~ " Camden Wyoming Union, which h
y recently given S25 to furnish diniI
:" table fer the school. So there has be,
some SUCCESS in the management
money, but We are sorry that We ha
=, not been able to do more for tn
= school, and along other lines of wo
., of which an important one is the dis
az tribution of temperance literature !
" Guiding the Union Signal.
a We bring our speakers of nation
et fame into the State when we can,
he educational factors, and believe tn
en- the money expended in this way,
d. rot full equivalent to them, for t
k wear of their itinerant lives, and
their absence from the 'Sweet corn'
ii of their own household fires.'' 49,.
The "Busy Womau," in one of |
Union Signal "Chats With Workers
gives as the watchword for 19(
~ "Have faith" and truly writ
IA "Throueh faith we shall do valiant
Nj Faithess We fall" So may we,
"a Delaware white rihbonors, add to {
Af' faith faithfulness, and learn tc
. Be content in work
lSl To do the thing we can. and not presur
To fret because itslittle.
Sn Property Transfers.