Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-03-31
w. G. T. u.
STORIES OF FRANCES E. WILLARD.

ence are without doubt in most of |
your homes.
it is said that from childhood Miss
Willard had strength Of character. |
There is an incident that shows where !
\ e might have obtained this moral |
courage One spring her grandfather
Dipl0yeG colored boy to help in the /
task of strengthening. The young /
African was the first of his people to |
come TO that neighborhood and his |
appearance at church or upon the !
streets created a sensation. But the /
grandfather took him to his home and |
brought him to his table Just before !
supper, one of his daughters went to
her father and, asked, "Sster Abigail /
has poor appetite and cannot relish !
her food at the table with that colored |
man, can he waltz "Nor ~ replied |
the father, "but she can
1t is said that the only piece of |
sewing Frances Willard ever attempted |
without complaint was when she and !
her sister Mary helped make flag for
an Old pillow case with red calico
but IT was their country's flag and she
and Oliver took turns carrying it
through the streets to the tune of
Forever Float"
A part Of her early life was very
quietly spent at Forest Home. One
DAY she cried out to the brother and
sister, the two who shared her every
thought, y wonder if we shall ever
know any thing, see anybody or go
anywhere" "Why do you want to go
away" asked Mary. "Oh, we must
learn, must grow, it is such big
word that if we don't begin at it we
shall never catch up with the rest
We wonder if she ever thought Of
these words when she was speaking
before great audiences here and
abroad.
From Miss Wizards journal kept
during her college days we find this,
OR. Foster closed the Bible al chapel
| yesterday with these words: ''8roth-
/ ers, with most men life is a failure. "
/ These words impressed Miss Willard
deeply and she said, go Thou, who
ruiest above. help me that my life may
/ be valuable, that some human being
shall yet thank Thee that have lived
and toiled."
Her first departure from home to
earn her living was IN q primitive red
sch0oIhOuse ten miles from Chicago.
! She says, eff I become teacher IN d
school that I 90 not like. if [ go away
alone, get tired and lonesome, be the
hammer that strikes and the anvil that
bears. l may grow strong in practice
as | have in theory" While at this
school she wrote to her mother. 'When
they took up the collection at the con-
vention today and I wrote F. E, w,
$1.00, ! felt new thankfuIness that |
could earn money according to my own
Judgment. [ have promised myself
that I will give as much as I can from
all my earnings to promote the doing
Of good in the world"
Her friend, Anna Gordon, says Of
her, 'She had wonderfully magnet
ic influence over young girls, believed
in them, trusted them, stood by them
often when others condemned, and
sought out those who were shy and
retiring and had little confidence in
themselves. praised them for their
smallest efforts and tried to inspire
them with her own high ideals of life
and character"
Miss Willard seldom forgot people
After one of her great speeches, when
surrounded by number of eminent
people she felt touch on her sleeve
and looking around her saw an uncouth
and unkempt backwoodsman, who had
known her in her girlhood days
|
ing to those around her, "This is my
old friend, Tom, whom I knew in the
old farm days."
The Temple or House Beautiful
was always in her mind. When asked,
''What do you believe the temple
means to the future of the w. C. T.
W" she replied, ga Swedish woman
; arrived in the city-a stranger-but
she wore the white ribbon and knew
about the Temple. She said to the
, first policeman, Winners Temple?
, He pointed in a certain direction. She
+ repeated her question to the next anC
reached the building in peace ane
quiet, appeared in the Offices of the
Worlds w. c. T. u, sat down in ;
big rocking chair and uttered the word
) Home. -
1t was during the liquor war il
Texas that she fought one of hel
hardest battles fer temperance. Sh,
, her opponent. He said, "We are bount
to win. We have the drinking men OF
$ our side, we have the foreigner on gu
Y side, we have money on our side-ant
1 money is power and don't you forge
o it. !" Speaking from the same plat
form few hours later. Miss Willar'
said. eve are bound to win, we hav
q the sober men on our side, we have the
s. women on our side, we have God OF
e side-and God is power and don't yo
}. forget it," Let US also remember tina
God is power. | have read somewher
!, that ''To live in hearts we leave benin
. is not to de-" and Miss Willard live
in all our hearts and the work she lef
: behind is with us to carry on.
~ The Shock of His Life.
| Suitor-Mr. Simkins, 1 have courte
J. your daughter fifteen years. Mr. S.