Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 3

Temperance Items

« Writing to the Union Signal on women's capacity for business, D. I\. Livermore says :" In Chicago^ the women connected with the W.C.T.U. manage most successfully a.large publushing establishment, and these women have raised half a million of dollars to erect a building for their own use! About 10 years ago this enterprise began with one employe, an editor, and desk room for which no rent was paid. No* it has 120 employes, including several editors, and requires such an amount of room that it it paying a rental of OOOOdol. per year The Union Signal which is only one of its publications, has a circulation of 80,000. Does not this show some business capacity among the women ? " Tb.9 following extract from an article in an insurance paper, reviewing the report of the Sceptre Life Insurance Co., says:—" Once more the temperance section wins ! And it certainly does appear singular that in regard to the siugle factor of the use or non use of intoxicatiug liquors so marked a difference should arise, and especially in an association where tho great bulk of the assuied belong to tho religious class, and among whom, therefore, it may be presumed, if intoxicauts are usod at all, their uso will be strictly within the limits of moderation." ___— — —