The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-19
INTERESTING ExHIBIT TO BE
BROUGHT HERE EARLY IN
NOVEMBER
DECIDE ON LOCATION
w. II. l.. or AMERICA ORGANIZA-
TIoNs HERE MAKING
PLANS For HOUs-
ING 1T

One of the most interesting fea
lures OF the movement for temper
ance in the United States, the exhibit
OF the Scientific Temperance Fedora
ton of Boston which presents prac-
teal facts for practical people on al
cohol and the beverage into which II
enters, will be displayed in Richmond
by the seven local branches of the
Womens Temperance League of
America during the week of October
27th- November LIST, inclusive.
The organization has arranged for
Miss Edna Wills. demonstration of the
exhibit the federation to come here
from Raleigh, n. c.. where next week
the exhibit will he shown as a part
Of the North Carolina State fair
The appearance at Greensboro, n.
C.. last week and at the State fair at
Raleigh this week. were the first APP
pearances of this unusual exhibit in
the South. Richmond is TO be the
third city in that section to see it
1t would have been shown at Rich
mond first, had 1t not been for the
fact that local temperance Interests
had their quarters outside of the
grounds during the State fair because
liquor was sold inside the grounds. 1t
was thought wise when arrangements
were made by the local organization
not to bring the scientific exhibit to
Richmond at that time
The Little Dry Bottle.
1t was feared a few would stop at
the temperance booth on the outside
| to go through an extensive exhibit of
| this kind, 80 the women confined their
| efforts to ice water and to the handing
! out of literature on temperance in
Guiding the little dry" r. bottle---''the
/ best bottle he had ever seem" Gov
ernor Mann declared, "a perfecly dry
! bottle with everything on the outside.
| The fair over and the dry bottle
campaign of the Women's Temper
ance league having been satisfactory
! to them, considerable good having
been accomplished for the cause in the
distribution of some fifty thousand of
the little bottles, the league arranged
to have Miss Wills bring the Scientific
! Federation's exhibit, which has proved
a most interesting feature wherever
shown to Richmond at no expense to
the public. -a-
An Active Committee.
! Every arrangement for the present
ing of the exhibition here has been
completed with the exception of It's
location. Efforts are being made by
the league to secure hall in the
business section Of the city for the
staging of the exhibit. Three sites
are under consideration, and decision
will be reached as TO Che hall SELECT
ed by Tuesday il was stated yester-
day afternoon BY the president of the
organization, Mrs. G.. M. Jobson,
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements selected from the seven
branches Of the league in Richmond
to cooperate with the officers is made
up of Mrs. w. r. Binns, Miss Mamie
Bates. Mrs. Eddie Lee. Miss Jennie
Bates. Mrs. Il. I. Parrish. Mrs John
Lindsay, Mrs. George d. Priddy, Mrs.
7. F. Herndon. Mrs c. b. Gresham.
Mrs j. w. Anderson. Mrs. S. L. Cole,
; Mrs. NJ. f. Strother. Miss Evelyn
Pace, Mrs l.. NJ. Massie and Mrs. w.
O, Condrey. The officers. also on the
arrangements committee are: Presi-
den, Mrs. q. NJ Jobson. vice president,
DR.. Olive +. Ingersoll; recording sec
rotary Mrs. c, c. Satterwhite. cor
, responding secretary, Miss Willie
Wingtield; treasurer, Mrs. Imogene
| Austin,
| AT Hygicnic Congresses.
| The exhibit is unique IN that every
thing presented, whether in model or
on chart, Is based on fact and proven
by science. The exhibit has been the
center of attraction wherever it has
been shown. Among the places and
the great gatherings before which II
has been exploited are the interna-
ton. and school hygienic congress at
Buffalo, and the Missionary EXPOSE
! ton ofthe World at aBltimore. Al
! Washington and Baltimore confer
. ences it was visited and studied by
more than thirty-five thousand per-
: sons.
: The exhibit will permit one who
; wishes to go into details to do so
and to find almost automatically prov
fha SfateInantN made. the StatG-
! ments displayed on the printed cards
and on the charts are scientifically
proven and arguments that may pre-
sent themselves shrink when the facts
are realized.
Or Compelling Interest.
+. The cards and charts are placed
. around the tour walls of the room.
The models and various other exhibits
j.; are displayed on tables. Visitors
are compelled by the influence the
!, cards. charts and models themselves
exert, and by the interest Miss Wills
, brings out in her very illuminative
description of the details suggested by
the several parts of the exhibit
That the exhibit Is one of the most
magnificent mott interesting and
most educational devised since wo-
, man became the foe of the liquor
traffic, is the assertion OF DIR. John
W. Richie, professor of biology at the
1 college of William and Mary. DR.
Richie endorsed very highly the ex-
hibit before the local Women's Tenn
, perance League of America branches
contracted for 1t.
The exhibit will be open according
to present plans from o'clock in the
morning till 6 o'clock in the evening
every day during the week begin
ming next Monday. Miss Eda Wills
who viii arrive here from Raleigh
:. next Saturday will be guest Of DR.
= Olive =. ingersoil.