1883 antique WOMAN and TEMPERANCE Works of WCTU HISTORY biographies

Description: 1883 antique WOMAN and TEMPERANCE Works of WCTU HISTORY biographiesSCROLL DOWN for MORE PHOTOS in DESCRIPTION Click HERE to view or search ANTIQUE.COTTAGE listings. This listing is for the hardcover, paper over board cover, with leather trim and spine. 648 pages. Measures approx 8.25"x5.25".Woman and Temperance: or, The Work and Workers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. By Frances Willard. Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1883. Ex-library with bookplate.ILLUSTRATIONS1. Portrait of the Author on Steel, 2. Mrs. E. J. Thompson, 3. Mrs. Geo. Carpenter, 4. Mother Stewart, 5. Mrs. Abby F. Leavitt, 6. Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, 7. Mrs. Margaret E. Parker, 8. Mrs. Margaret B. Lucas, . 9. Mrs. W. A. Ingham, 10. Mrs. J. F. Willing, . 11. Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, 12. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, . 13. Mrs. Mary T. Burt, . 14. Mrs. S. M. I. Henry, 15. Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, 16. Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, 17. Miss Lucia E. F. Kimball, . 18. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, 19. Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, 20. Miss Esther Pugii, . 21. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, 22. Mrs. Mary A. Liyermore, . 23. Mrs. C. B. Buell, . 24. Mrs. Z. G. Wallace, . . , 25. Mrs. Bent with her Cornet, , , 26. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, 27. Mrs. Sallie F. Chapin, 28. Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick, 29. Miss Elizabeth "W. Greenwood, . 30. Mrs. J. K. Barney, . 81. Mrs. Elizabeth Comstock, . 32. Mrs. Letitia Yodmans, 33. The Future Legislator, CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. FRANCES E. WILLARD. Ancestry and birth — Character of parents — Early life — Travel and life abroad — The "Human Question" — Elected President of Woman's College — The Teacher — Character and methods — Introduction to the public — Impressions of a journalist — Character and aims — Call to the temperance work — Earlier work — Gospel work — Journalism — Birth of " Home Protection" — The great petition — Elected to the presidency of the National W. C. T. U. — Work — Incidents — Southern tours — Character as a woman — As a leader of women — As a type. . . , .19 CHAPTER II. PRELIMINARY. The W. C. T. U. compared with other Societies — "Without a pattern and without a peer." 39 CHAPTER III. "W. C. T. U." Its object— Hygiene — The " Religion of the Body " — Dress, economy of time — Value of a trained intellect — The coming of Christ into five circles: Heart; Home; Denominationalism; Society; Government — Home protection — " The Old Ship Zion, Hallelujah!" — Motto: " Mary stood the cross beside. " . . .42 CHAPTER IV. "LET IT BE NOTED"; Or why the Author is not a Critic. 48 CHAPTER V. THE FIRST CRUSADERS. Mrs. Judge Thompson of Hillsboro', Ohio — First Praying Band — First Saloon Prayer-meeting— Mrs. George Carpenter of Washington Court House — Story of the great victories — Scene at a National W. C. T. U. Convention — Presentation of the Crusade Bedquilt 50 CHAPTER VI. "MOTHER STEWART." Ancestry— A Teacher— A Good Samaritan in War Times— Defends a Drunkard's Wife in Court— Enters a Saloon in Disguise —A Leader in Two Crusades— Visits England— Goes South- Critique of London Watchman 80 CHAPTER VII. MRS. ABBY FISHER LEAVITT. "Leader of the Forty -three "—The shoemaker and the little white shoes 88 CHAPTER VIII. MRS. MARY A. WOODBRIDGE. President of the Crusade State, and Recording Secretary of the National W. C. T. U.— A Nantucket Girl— Cousin of Maria Mitchell — Western education— Baptized into the Crusade — Speaks in fifty Presbyterian Churches— The author's glimpse of the Crusade— The Crusade in Calcutta— Margaret Parker — Mrs. Margaret Lucas . 101 CHAPTER IX. "THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT OF THE CRUSADE." Chautauqua, Summer of 1874 — Poetic justice— Dr. Vincent — Mrs. Ingham's sketch— Mrs. E. H. Miller's circular. . . .121 CHAPTER X. THE WOMAN'S NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONVENTION FOUNDED AT CLEVELAND, O. The First Woman's National Temperance Convention, Cleveland, Ohio — Red-Letter days — Officers — Resolutions, etc. — Representative Women — A brave beginning 127 CHAPTER XIPARLIAMENTARY USAGE VERSUS "RED TAPE." Mrs. Plymouth Rock and Friend Rachel Halliday engage in a discussion 136 CHAPTER XII. OUR MANY-SIDED WORK. CHAPTER XIII. MRS. JANE FOWLER WILLING. President of the First National Convention — An Earnest Life and Varied Work — Speaker — Organizer — Teacher — Author. . 147 CHAPTER XIV. MRS. EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER. Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller — Secretary of Chautauqua pre- liminary meeting — Author, Editor,- Home-maker. . . . 154 CHAPTER XV. MRS. ANNIE WITTENMYER. First President of the W. C. T. U.— War Record— Church Work —Philanthropy 160 CHAPTER XVI. MRS. MARY T. BURT. Second Corresponding Secretary of National W. C. T. U. — An Episcopalian — Editor of "Our Union" — President of New York State W. C. T. U 168 CHAPTER XVII. WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION WORK FOR THE INDIVIDUAL. Gospel Temperance, or the Light of Christ shining in the circle of one heart — "The Lord looseth the Prisoners" — A reformed man's speech — Woman's Christian Temperance Union work in the Church universal — Its wholly unsectarian character — "Let her not take a text " — Our Evangelists — Mrs. S. M. I. Henry — " The Name "—Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith — " How to prepare Bible Readings" — Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop — Miss Jennie Smith — Mrs. T. B. Carse— Miss Lucia E. F. Kimball— The Indian Chief Petosky — The first temperance Camp-meeting — Alcohol at the Communion Table — How one woman helped — That fossil prayer-meeting — Woman's Christian Temperance Union Training School — " The Master is come and calleth for thee." 176 CHAPTER XVIII. W. C. T. IT. WORK FOR THE HOME. " Combination view " — Cburch — Saloon — School-house — Home — Mother and boy — Philosophy of our plan of work — Doctor, Editor, Minister, Teacher, must all stand by the Christian mother — Society the cup-bearer to Bacchus — The sovereign citizen—Education of the saloon — The arrest of thought — Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, National Superintendent of Scientific Department 235 CHAPTER XIX. THE W. C. T. U. IN SOCIETY. The Light of Christ in the circle of society — The hostess of the White House— Sketch of Mrs. L\icy Webb Hayes— Memorial portrait — Lincoln Hall meeting — "The Two Bridges" — Mrs. Foster's address — Presentation at Executive Mansion — President Garfield's reply — "Through the Eye to the Heart" — Lucy Hayes Tea Parties, Impressions of the Garfields — Society work of young women — Mrs. Francis J. Barnes of New York — Miss Anna Gordon — Y. W. C. T. U. of Michigan University — Wellesley College — Kitchen garden — Miss McClees — Sensible girls — "The W. C. T. U. will receive "—Nobler themes— "All for Temperance" — Miss Esther Pugh, Treasurer of National W. C. T. U 255 CHAPTER XX. THE W. C. T. U. IN THE GOVERNMENT. Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster — A Boston girl, a lawyer, an orator — Her work part and parcel of the W. C. T. U. — As wife, mother, and Christian — Philosophy of the W. C. T. U. in the Government — The Keithsburg election, or the "Women who dared " — The story of Roekford— Home protection in Arkansas —A practical application— Observations en route— The famous law— Extract from Fourth of July address — Local option — Plan for local campaign — How not to do it — How it has been done — Temperance tabernacles— History of Illinois' great petition- About petitions — Days of prayer — Copy of the petition— Home protection hymn— Mrs. Pellucid at the Capitol— A specimen Legislature — Valedictory thoughts — Temperance tonic — Yankee home protection catechism — A heart-sorrow in an unprotected home — The dragon's council hall — Home guards of Illinois — How one little woman saved the day in Kansas — Election day in Illinois — Incidents of the campaign — A Southern incident — Childhood's part in the victory 321 CHAPTER XXiMRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE, Our Chief Speaker, and President of the Massachusetts W. C. T. U. Seen from afar — Personal reminiscences — A racy sketch of her Melrose home — Sermon on Immortality — Incidents of early years — Religious character — Her coadjutors — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' Letter to Massachusetts W. C. T. U 418 CHAPTER XXII. CAROLINE BROWN BUELL, Corresponding Secretary National W. C. T. TJ. The universal Brown family — A vigorous ancestry — An itinerant preacher's home — The War tragedy — Her brother's helper — Hears the Crusade tocsin — A noble life — That Saratoga Convention 437 CHAPTER XXIII. MY FIRST HOME PROTECTION ADDRESS. CHAPTER XXIV. WOMEN'S BRIGHT WORDS. Priscilla Shrewdly and Charlotte Cheeryble — One woman's experience — Our letter bag — From a Pennsylvania girl — From an Illinois working man — From a Michigan lady — From a Missouri lady — From Rockford, Ills. — From a reformed man in Philadelphia — From a new York lady — The temperance house that Jack built — One day in a temperance woman's life — From a New England girl's letter — Concerning the word "Christian" — From Senator and Mrs. Blair 460 CHAPTER XXV. MRS. ZERELDA G. WALLACE, OF INDIANA. Our Temperance Deborah — Her place — A character — Incidents — The Newspaper — A Bible Student — Home life — Her Temperance Baptism — Figures in " Ben Hur " — A Christian. . .476 CHAPTER XXVI. "PERSONAL LIBERTY." "The Open Secret." 486 CHAPTER XXVII. THE MODOCS OF THE LAVA BEDS IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. A Quaker conquest — Miss Willard among the Modocs. . . 504 CHAPTER XXVIIL MRS. L. M. N. STEVENS OF MAINE.— MRS. F. A. BENT, WITH HER GOLDEN CORNET. CHAPTER XXIX. LIFE AND WORK OF JULIA COLMAN. Superintendent of the Literature Department of the National W. C. T. U. CHAPTER XXX. OUR JOURNALISTS. Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton — Miss Margaret E. Winslow — "Crowned ' — Mrs. Mary Bannister Willard — "John Brant's wife, who was not a Crusader " — A sketch 524 CHAPTER XXXI. OUR SOUTHERN ALLIES. Mrs. Sallie F. Chapin of S. O— Sketch of her life— Address at Washington — Mrs. Georgia Hulse McLeod of Md. — Mrs. J. C. Johnson of Tenn.— Mrs. J. L. Lyons of Fla.— Mrs. W. C. Sibley of Ga. — Miss Fannie Griffin of Ala. — Other representative Southern ladies — Mrs. Judge Merrick of New Orleans — Address at Saratoga on my Southern trip — Texas and temperance. . 540 CHAPTER XXXII. GLIMPSES OF THE WOMEN AT WORK. Miss Elizabeth W. Greenwood — Miss F. Jennie Duty of Ohio, the Minister at Large — Mrs. J. K. Barney of Rhode Island, the Prisoner's Friend — Mrs. Henrietta Skelton, the German Lecturer — Mrs. Elizabeth L. Comstock, the Quaker Philanthropist — One husband's birthday gift. . 580 CHAPTER XXX1IL THE CANADIAN LEADERS. Mrs. Letitia Youmans, the Lecturer — Mrs. D. B. Chisholm, President of Ontario W. C. T. U. , etc 598 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CHILDREN. Miss Lathbury's poem — Boy's Temperance speech — How to reach the children. . 604 CHAPTER XXXV. HOW TO ORGANIZE A W. C. T. U. How ought a Local W. C. T. U. to conduct a Public Meeting? . 612 APPENDIX. Constitution and Plan of Work for a local W. C. T. U— Plan of work of 1874— Plan of work for 1883 Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera. autographCONDITION: See listing description and photos. Some scuffs to the end paper. The Entire Cover has been touched up with leather dye so the scuffs, the library markings on spine, and other cover damage is less noticeable. Complete and intact. Other light antique wear. 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