The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-27
Autobiography OF Joint Smasher
Published Today.
Contains Much That IL Unique
and Interesting.
STORY OF HER LIFE.
Tells Of Courtships and Her
Love Affairs.
How She First Came to War on
Liquor.

i The Iong-heralded autobiography OF
Carrie A. Nation has. come from the
press. Eleven thousand copies were
printed in the first edition and the
i indications are that the book will run
through several more editions.
/ The book is a starrffng revelation
/ of the life and history of the famous
Kansas joint smasher. 1t proves to
be interesting reading not only for
those who are more or less familiar
with Mrs. Nation, but for those who
may never have heard of the best
known foe of the liquor traffic.
""The Use and Need of the Life OF
| Carrie A. Nation contains 200 pages.
1t is printed in Topeka by F. NJ SteveS
and Sons, and it gotten out in three
| styles. Two styles are paper bound,
| one containing illustrations ana the
| other without the pictures. The third
| style is bound in cloth and contains
| the illustrations.
The book is divided into % chaps
| ters. The first three chapters deal with
her life up to the time of her first
| marriage. She was born in Kentucky
moved to Missouri and later to Kansas.
Beginning with the fourth chapter
events crowd each other thick and
fast, and Mrs. Nation faithfully and
| truthfully sets down a narration OF
| all the details of her life, not sparing
| herself in a single deIail of the sad
story. The chapters which follow deal
with the first efforts she made against
the liquor traffic at Medicine Lodge
and Kiowa, and later at Wichita, En-
| terprise and Topeka, and include a
summary of all the Jail experiences
and work which she carried on in all
parts of the United States.
| Mrs. Nations book is a frantic ap-
peal for better living, and she Illus
i trateS her arguments with word pic
lures drawn from life as she observed
it. The chapter on her first marriage
! follows in part:
| 'In the fall of 1865, DR.. GIoyd, a
young physician, called to see my
| father to secure the country school,
saying he wished to locate in our Sec
ton of the country and wanted to take
a school that winter and then he could
decide where he would like to prac-
tice his profession.
This man was a thorough student,
spoke and read several languages; he
! boarded with us. I liked him and stood
| in awe of him because or his superior
education, never thinking that he
| loved me, until he aStonished me one
evening by kissing me. I had never
had a gentleman take such a privilege
and felt shocked, threw up my hands
to my face, saying several times: 'I
am ruined My aunt and mother had
| instilled great reserve IN my actions,
when in company of gentlemen, so
much that had never allowed one to
sit near or hold my hand. This was
not because did not enjoy their So
ciety, but 1 had been taught that to
inspire respect or love from a man
you must keep him at a distance. This
often made me awkward and reserved
but it did me no harm. When
learned that DIR. Gloyd loved me I
began to love him. DR.. Gloyd was an
only child and his parents had but a
modest living. My mother was not
pleased with seeing a growing attach
ment between us, for there was aID-
other match she had planned for me.
She would not allow me to sit alone
in q Wit h i'm
munication was mostly by writing let
ters. 1 never knew Shakespeare until
he read it to me and L became an
ardent admirer of the greatest poet.
The volume of Shakespeare on his ta-
Bile was our postoffice. In the morn-
ing at breakfast he would man.
age to call the name Shakes
peare;" then would know there was
letter for me in it's leaves. After
teaching three months he went to
Holden, Mo, and located; sent for his
father and mother and in two years
we were married.
MY father and mother warned me
that the doctor was addicted to drink,
but had no idea of the curse of rum
l did not fear anything for I was in
love and doubted nothing from him.
When DR.. Gloyd came up to marry me
the 21st of November, 1867, 1 noticed
with pain that his countenance was
not bright, looked changed. The day
was one of the glooiniest 1 ever saw,
mist fell and not a ray of sunshine.
l felt forebodfng on the day 1 had
looked forward to as being one of the
happiest. 1 did not find DR.. Gloyd the
lover 1 expected. He was kind but
seemed to want to be away from me;
used to sit and read, when L was so
hungry for his caresses and love.
have heard that this is the experiences
of many other young married women.
They are so disappointed that their
husbands change after marriage.
With my observation and experience I
believe that men have it in their power
to keep the love of ninety-nine women
out of a hundred. Why do women lose
love for their husbands? / find it is
mostly due to indifference on the part
of the husband. 1 often hear the exper-
ience of those poor abandoned sisters.
1 ask why are you in this house of sin
and death? When 1 can get their con-
hdence, many of them say: I married
a man; he drank and went with other
women. 1 got discouraged or spitefuI
and went to the bad Also I find that
drink causes so much enmity between
the sexes. Drinking men neglect their
wives. Their wives become jealous. Men
often go with abandoned women under
the influence of that drink that ami
mates the animal passions and asks not
for the association Of love but the graft
ification of lust. Men do not go to tina
houses of ill-fame to meet women they
love but oftener those they almost hate.
The drink nabit destroys in men the
appreciation of a home life, and when
a woman leaves all others for one man.
she does and should expect his compan-
ionship, and is not satisfied without it.
Libertines, taking advantage of this,
select women whose husbands are me-
glectful and he wins victims by his
first, is beguiled. Marriage, while it is
the bliSSful contamination of ni1re love