Cleanings

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 December 1895, Page 4

Cleanings

I'm: Japanese W.C. T.U., was organised in i njj. Par hence be Baclius’ gifts, unnerving limbs and lulling noble minds.— Homer. The Baltimore W.C.T.U. Convention was preceded by a National Purity Congress. There are 143 women’s colleges in the United States. Co-education and the wider companionship of men and women will, Miss Willard prophesies, play an important part in the progress of purity. The Liquor-Dealers’ National Association at Washington have pledged themselves to resist all law-making power against the liquor traffic. Physical culture ami dress reform received a large share of attention at the late Baltmore convention. Archbishop Crokt confirms no chi'd in the diocese of Cashel who does not take a solemn total abstinence pledge.

An advocate of electrical cooking claims that for every ioo tons of coal used in a cooking sto\e 06 are wasted. . , The Masons of New York have signified their disapproval of saloon-keeping l>v members of their fraternity. . . Last year the number of women who assisted in poor law administration in England was 169. i his year they number 893. l)r Hu King Eng, cf Too Chow, is the first Chinese woman doctor, graduate ol an American medical coliege, to practice in China . At the formation of 1 Woman s Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters, in a Scottish town recently, it was stated that the A. 0.1'., boasted more than a hundred women s courts. Mrs Fenwick Miller, is in the editorial chair of the \\ Oman’s Signal, owing to the ill-health of Miss Holdsworth, and the family claims of Lady Henry Somerset. i he marriage of Lady Catherine \ ere tie Mere Beauclcrk, daughter of the Duke of St. Alban’s, with Henry Somers Somerset, only child and heir of Lady Somerset, will probably take place at Easter. The Archbishop was in New Zealand from 1870 to 1874, and is enthusiastic about his old diocese. He describes New Zealand as “ the finest country on the face of the globe : the best to live in, the best to work in, and the best to enjoy life in.” The enfranchisement of women has his warmest approval. The English Wesleyan Conference, which declined to admit women, permitted th*. introduction 10 the President and Conference of Baron ;ss Langanau, of Vienna, Vice-President cf the W.C.T.U. and a generous donor to Methodist missions in England and Austria. The brethren bid not seem to fear lest the deterioration of Methodism might result from her presence on the platform. In her address to the National Convention assembled at Baltimore tn October, Miss Willard expiessed the wish that the name “ Prohibition Party be altered to “ Home Protection Party. W ith this wish the Convention, by a unanimous vote, sympathised. \nother resolution invited co-operation ol Catholic and Hebrew women. Miss Agnes Slack, the new secretary of the World's W.C.T.U., is said to be pretty and in the bioom of life, well educated, of a good old Derbyshire family, and actively connected with the Wesleyan Church. On the memorable 16th of June last, when more than 200 women occupied London pulpits, Miss Slack preached in John \\ esley s pulpit at the historic City Road Chapel, bor years she has taken an active interest in all social movements, and is a most effective speaker on temperance and political platforms.