The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-04-01
Maine Women
Who Have Won Distinction.

supper OF baked beans ana Drown predo
was served and the following program
given:
Piano Solo. Miss Emma Bates
Sketch of Hannibal Hamlin, Sanford Porter
Sketch of Camp Meeting" John ALLEN,
Prof. C. M. Parker
Reading. Mrs. Patti L. Loud
Maine Women Who Have Been Distinguished
Cornet Solo. Mr.. Fred C. Adams
Historic Events in Maine,
Mrs, Clara H. Hodgman
Solo, Mrs Mary Carr Moore
Reading. Mrs Patti Loud
Miss Burnham said:
WOMEN OF MAINE.
Twenty-Five years ago, the following
words were uttered by James Bryce,
England's minister to this Country: ut
has been well said that the position
which women hold in a country Is, If not
a complete test, yet one of the best tests
of the progress it has made In clvlllza-
ton. Americans are fond of pointing,
and can with perfect justice point, to
the position their women hold as evil
dence of the high level their civilization
has reached"
We are justly entitled to claim this
progress for our Nation, and for our
States as well, and surely Maine may
have her share in our National progress
for she has done a noble work through
her talented sons and daughters in up
lifting and beneftting the Nation. Every
one knows the work done by the men of
the ''Old Pine Tree State" but it is not
generally known in how great numbers
or in how many lines of work the women
of Maine have distinguished themselves.
To music and the drama Maine has
made noted contributions, women whose
names are known not only throughout
this Country but in Europe as well. The
name of Nordica is known wherever the
opera is appreciated, but all do not
know that her voice was not considered
worthy of training until after the death
of an even more talented older sister.
She entered the Boston Conservatory of
Music and was the only one of her class
who stood the test of four years
course.
Ethel Atwood of Fairfield formed a
ladies' orchestra in Boston. afterward
taking up the study of prompting, and
today is considered one of the best
prompters and the only lady prompter in
the United States.
The two daughters of Captain Elliott
of Rockland have played many leading
parts in America and Europe. Gertrude
Elliott has been the leading lady in the
company of which her husband. Forbes
Robertson, the greatest English-speak-
ing actor of the present time, plays the
leading part, while her sister, Maxine,
has become even more famous.
Sarah Pratt Carr, one Of the most YER
satile writer's in America, has with the
aid of her talented daughter, Mary Carr
Moore, done the greatest thing in oper-
attic circles in the United States. They
have written a grand opera telling the
story of the heroic deeds of Marcus Whit
man, missionary among the Oregon In
dians during the first half of the nine
teenth century. If we accept the testi-
mony of Sousa, she stands highest as a
composer of English opera.
AS an artist, perhaps no Maine woman
stands higher than Mrs. William Henry
Horne, who is we'll known artist of
Boston and New York where her work
is frequently exhibited.
In missionary and charitable work,
Maine has freely given noble daugh-
tiers who have brought credit to their
native State. Judith Walker Andrews
of Fryeburg joined her brother, DIR.
Walker, who had charge of hospital
for the insane and did much to bring
about more humane treatment of those
unfCrtunates. In 1889, she became much
interested in the child widows of India
and formed an association to Carry on
work in that distant land.
Ellen Martin Heurotin of Portland is
one of the foremost women in public and
charitable work in Chicago. She was
one of the leading spirits in the women's
department of the Chicago Exposition of
1893. She was decorated by the Sultan
of Turkey in 1898, was made member
of the famous French Academy in 1899
and was decorated in 1904 by Leopold IL.
To no Maine woman do we owe more
than to Mrs. Lillian M. n Stew MS, who
succeeded Frances Willard as the Nation
al president of the W. G. T. U. When
Frances Willard died in 1898, it seemed
as If no one could take her place butMrs.
Stevens nobly carried out the work for
which nearly 20 years of association with
MissWillard had fitted her. For 16 years
she filled this position and when death
called her home last Aprilshe left vacant
place which cannot easily be filled. For
many years she was reckoned as Neal
BOWS chief helper and after his death
was recognized as the leader of the pro-
hibtion forces. More than once have
the enemies of temperance tried to tri-
umph in the State, but each time they
have been defeated in spite of the fact
that the women of Maine cannot vote.
Some of the triumphs of the Maine
W. c. I. U. under the leadership Of
Mrs. Stevens have bee the raising the
age of protection to 16 years, a strong
Scientific Temperance Instruction law
and the constitutional amendment of
1884. She was also one of the chief
promoters of the Temporary home for
Women and children in Portland and the
State Industrial Schools for Girls.
DIR. Alice Luce, a graduate of the E.
l.. H. S. of Auburn, completed course
at Wellesley, took degrees at Oberlin
and at the University of Heidelberg and
is now the principal of flourishinq
girls school in Berlin, Germany.
In the philosophical world, we are rep
resented by Elizabeth Armstrong Reed,
the only woman whose work has been
accepted by the Philosophical Society of
Great Britain. She has. also written
several books on Hindu and Persian
literature and religion.
Mrs. Alice Hartman has the dlstinc-
ton of being the only woman pub Usher
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