Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . f the Inter-national Council of Women and of the Worlds Christian Union. In 1892she visited England, and received an enthusiastic welcome from thefriends of reform in that country. She was at the head of the WomensCommittee of Temperance Meetings at the Worlds Fair in 1893. Miss Willard died February 17, 1898, and the pulpit and press ofthe land paid glowing tributes to her and her great work. QUESTIONS. What can you say of the success of women in what they undertake ?What were
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . f the Inter-national Council of Women and of the Worlds Christian Union. In 1892she visited England, and received an enthusiastic welcome from thefriends of reform in that country. She was at the head of the WomensCommittee of Temperance Meetings at the Worlds Fair in 1893. Miss Willard died February 17, 1898, and the pulpit and press ofthe land paid glowing tributes to her and her great work. QUESTIONS. What can you say of the success of women in what they undertake ?What were some of Miss Willards traits of character ? What cause did shelabor especially to promote ? Where was she bom and where was she edu-cated ? Where did she first teach ? When did she begin to devote all hertime to the cause of temperance ? Of what organization was she madePresident ? With whom did she labor in evangelistic work ? Whatcan you say of her Home Protection Movement ? What daily paper didshe edit for a while? Describe her visit to England in 1892. When didshe die ? ELISHA KENT KANE THE ARCTIC HAT a dismal place Greenland must be, said people live in snow houses there. Shall I tell you about the Polar World ? saidUncle Frank, drawing up his easy chair. The two girls were anxious to hear about DoctorKane, who was a famous explorer, and Uncle Frankkindly consented to narrate his story. Voyages in the Polar regions of North Americabegan in the first part of the seventeenth century,and from that time to this almost all the important nations of the worldhave been continually making efforts to reach the pole. From the first,the chief objects were to find water-ways around both continents connect-ing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The Northeast passage betweenEurope and Asia was successfully made by Russian and Danish expedi-tions ; while the Northwest passage, which was first attempted by Sebas-tian Cabot and the brothers Cortereal, was not actually
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