Posted on 05/14/2008 12:14:04 PM PDT by aomagrat
She’s a teetotaller!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Willard_(suffragist)
Frances Willard (suffragist)
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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women’s suffragist.
She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin. She moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was 18.
Willard was elected president of the United States Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1879, a position which she held for life. She created the Formed Worldwide W.C.T.U. in 1883, and was elected its president in 1888[citation needed].
She founded the magazine The Union Signal, and was its editor from 1892 through 1898.
Her tireless efforts for women’s suffrage and prohibition included a fifty-day speaking tour in 1874, an average of 30,000 miles of travel a year, and an average of four hundred lectures a year for a ten year period, mostly with her longtime companion Anna Adams Gordon. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution.
She wrote Woman and Temperance, Nineteen Beautiful Years, A Great Mother, Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (1889), and the popular bestseller, A Wheel within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle (1895), as well as large number of magazine articles.
Willard was the first woman represented among the illustrious company of America’s greatest leaders in Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. She was national president of Alpha Phi in 1887, and the first dean of women at Northwestern University. In her later years, Willard became a committed socialist. She died of influenza at the Empire Hotel in New York City while preparing to set sail for a visit to England.
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So what hap pends if I break any of those laws?
There is only one way out of this mess. Pass a law that states,
“For every new law that is added, two old laws must be eliminated.”
A teetotaler chick known for promoting women's suffrage and prohibition.
IOW, probably not a lot of fun at parties.
I bet they saw that one coming.
A love affair of the rug muncher kind?
Cardinal Fang will poke you with the 'Soft Cushions' ... (with all the stuffing at one end)
Oh no, not that lol
anything but that lol
I've always thought that every state and the federal government should pass a law sunsetting all other laws in maybe 8 years. Each one that they want to retain must be proposed by a legislator, opened to debate and change, passed and signed into law again.
What’s wrong with hygienic straws?
And hygienic toothpick requirements?
And why should all plastic forks, knives, spoons, and sporks be open to the air? They should be individually wrapped too by law.
SC:
It is perfectly legal to beat your wife on the court house steps on Sundays.
When approaching a four way or blind intersection in a non-horse driven vehicle you must stop 100 ft from the intersection and discharge a firearm into the air to warn horse traffic.
It is illegal to give or receive oral sex in South Carolina.
Kansas
Pedestrians crossing the highways at night must wear tail lights.
No one may catch fish with his bare hands.
If two trains meet on the same track, neither shall proceed until the other has passed.
Oklahoma
Whaling is illegal.
It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
Cars must be tethered outside of public buildings.
It’s statutory rape for a man over 18 to have sex with a female under the age of 18, provided she’s a virgin.
California
Sunshine is guaranteed to the masses.
Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.
Bathhouses are against the law.
It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.
re #7 - What if there aren’t 4 Fridays in an October?
Hmmm, now that you mention it, I thought the package of fork/spoon/knife/napkin/salt/pepper was just for convenience, efficiency, and cost.
I guess it does have some hygienic benefit as well.
That would most likely mean that the world had ended sometime after the third Friday of October, and Frances Willard Day would consequently be cancelled...
;-)
the whip, then.
I was thinking that all new laws enacted should mandatorily be sunsetted after eight years (two presidential terms). If they aren't re-enacted before then, they go off the books.
Next would be to sunset all laws enacted starting, say, 1900 to expire 120 years from date of enactment with the same reenactment proviso. Maybe when they've been re-enacted three times they become permanent.
This would keep the pols so busy they wouldn't have time to cook up any new ones and clear out a lot of dead weight as well.
Ah well, "perchance to dream."
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