The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-22
Joint Smasher Will Found Pro-
hibition Institution Here.
Purpose Is to Educate Girls for
Preachers Of the Cause.
BIG MEETING PLACE.
Will Also Build an Auditorium
to Cost 81 900.
Has Written a BOOk-NOw in
Printers Hands.

carrie Nation, thinner Dy TWO score
pounds than of yore. much grayer of
hair, prosperous looking, but still game
as a Sioux Indian on the war path. was
IN town yesterday and announced that
she will this fall erect a $1,000 auditor
ium for use in the temperance crusade
at the northwest corner of Thirteenth
and Kansas avenue. Not content with
this chunk of Carnegiesque liberality,
she topped it off by giving three valu-
able pieces of Topeka property yester
day afternoon to the Kansas State W.
c. T. u, a two story frame house at
1903 Kansas avenue, a, two story brick
and stone house at 1901 Kansas avenue
and a four room cottage on the rear of
the last named place, all of which is to
be converted into a College of Prohibi-
ton. This institution is to be in charge
of the W. c. T. U. for the education of
young women who are to devote their
lives to preaching prohibition in Kan
sas. The much maligned Carrie may
have visions with regard to that $1,000
auditorium, but it is certain that she
is making money and saving it. She
is getting it right from the devil's
own strongholds, according to the say
ings of c. Nation, the vaudeville the
aters. While on the circuit she lives
at second class hotels, cooks many of
her own meals, does her own washing,
and puts away every shekel to be
brought back to Kansas and invested
in real estate which moth and dust do
not corrupt.
Like Cecil Rhodes with his scholar
ships. Mrs. Nation looks ahead, and
labels the front door of her College of
Prohibition with a lot of conditions. !
For the benefit of the young women of
VIII q re-
Nation Reform school CHATS what she
called it,. the preliminary requirements
are herewith printed:
No age limit
Sound health.
Pledge to make it life work
Willingness.
Courage.
And this is what she promises in re-
turn:
Conversion to the Christian faith.
Food and clothes and educa ton free.
The education to comprise principally
law, physical culture, and a general fit
ting out and up for the business of re-
form.
To be sent over the state, two by
two to lecture and preach prohibition,
their expenses to be paid by subscrip
tons.
And then the little old woman took up
her topic with enthusiasm. That audi
forum" she cried, leaning over the
balustrade of her big armchair until the
reporter feared she would tOpple out Of
it, that auditorium will be the hub and
center of our activities. 1t is to have a
stage and seat 500 people. It shall be
a place where poor struggling mothers
can go and receive an inspiration in
their battle to keep the world Alright.
Right here at the capital is where
want it, Just where 1 can get a them
and get at them hard. Well publish a
paper there-a paper devoted to our
cause. We will make 1t place where
people will want to come and where
10 It'll e+r
next week to earn more money to build
1t and in the fall you will see the work
commenced. Oh. it will be glorious
PURPOSES OF HER SCHOOL.
And the school, continued the
Terror of the Royal, Palms, ct al "the
school will be productive of great re-
suits. Elevate women and you elevate
men, One degraded woman VIII degradea
dozen men. I want girls there to be
Grst converted into Christianity I
want them too kind and sympathetic
to wear dead birds on their hats, too
sensible to wear high heeled shoes. too
self-respecting to put their bodies into
q. wise. They shall be real women 1
want to teach them lessons about mar
rage. Too little, oh, altogether and
absolutely too little is known about
marrying. 1 want these girls to go
out over the state and tell the Young
girls what marrying means. I want
them to go in twos over the state to
teach prohibition, preach temperance
in everything. to lead Kansas on and
upward to purity, decency and God -
And the little, determined enthusiasts
tic old woman, clinched her fists and
gritted her teeth tightly under her as
equally firmly closed lips, rose from
her chair and cried: IT am doing this
for you and for me, for your children
and my children
While the reporter talked to her in
the little crowded room at 1903 Kansas
avenue last night, Mrs. Nation was
doing three ring circus stunt. She
was submitting to a interview in
which she had the floor all the time
eating candy from a nicely engraved
box, and looking over the manuscript
of her book which she today placed IN
the hands of a local printing firm
Stoves & Co. And when she talked of
her book. she again grew eloquent. Its
title is almost equal in size to one of
Marsh Murdock's endless sentences
and runs like this: THE Use And The
Need OF The Life OF Carrie Nation
The Home Defender"
Its contents comprise a barrel of
things A condensation would bring it
down to this; Early Childhood History
Kentucky Life, Early Disappoint-
mentS. Life of 8rokenhearted WO-
man, The Resurrection, Called by Ged.
She read section of it about her first
marriage. y did not know he loved
me-" she read. but one night he came
forward and kissed me. 7 threw back
my arms and cried; I am ruined ="
you know" she then said by way of
explanation, Il had always been raised
away from yong men. never allowed
them to sit near me or hold my hands
One time a man spoke to me suddenly
and tainted" Now it is the jointist
who does the fainting. The book is to
consist OF 200 pages and to be sold for
25 cents. It will go on the press within
three weeks and be on the market in
side of a month. The proceeds are to
be used for the Auditorium and the
College Of Prohibition And then Mrs
Nation showed her style. I'm going to
put a yellow cover on it." she said
beamingly: that is the color of Kan
sas-the yellow sunf1ower.'