Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 23 June 1911 — Page 9

Friday, June 23, 1911.

THE TIMES.

FETCHING BONNET AND COLLAR, CAY WITH MOSS ROSES AND FORGET-ME-NOTS

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Thero 13 something particularly quaint about this pretty bonnet with its lace trill under the brim ann Its still little nosegay of moss roses and forget-me-nots tucked against tne puffed velvet crown. The low halrdressing and bow set across the back have a youthful suggestion.

The photograph shows a pretty new way of wearing one of the broad lace collars over a Dutchnecked frock. The collar comes slightly above the neck of the frock and the pin is set across the top of the frock, an Inch or two below the top corners of the lace.

The Tragedy of Carrie Nation

BY HER FORMER PRESS AGENT

- When the newspapers of June 10 flashed the news that Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon-smasher, had died et Leavenworth, Kan., the night before, pitying smile went over the country. The notice of her death served only to bring back to the minds of the public the Carrie of ten years ago the fiery, fearless, saloon-smashing. Journalistic Joke, who served to hit "the national ense -of humor as the acme of the screamingly ridiculous. And therein lies the grim tragedy of the life of Carrie Nation. The patno3 of this gray-haired, broken-hearted, fanatical old woman is inseparable from the humor she aroused. Both pathos and humor were with- her through the years when she thundered damnation to saloonlsts and wreaked destruction to their places of business.

It was many times more in evidence at her death-bed, when, broken in spirit and mind, she breathed her last with none of those with whom and for whom she fought to soothe her dying hours. Two nieces, a strange hospital urgeon and a head nurso were her only attendants. The two dominant features of Carrie Nation's character were diametrically opposed. On the one side was the crusader, the leader, the fearless fanatic boldly defying the world; greedy for money and seeking the best method for getting it; alive to thd value of advertising and quick to grasp the dramatic and sensational: a grafter of the lowest kind; a miser In her love for gold; a glutton for publicity; a leech; a money-vampire. On the other hand was her simple, motherly character, as lovable as that of any woman I have ever known.

Sometimes she would make one wonder

how she could be the termagant she

was. She rarely referred to her smashing tour, and when she did It

was with a quiet little laugh, her gray eyes sparkling and her fist clenched

as she would describe how the meu would flee the saloon bv the rear door

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when she entered the front. The waste

the injustice, the criminal side of her

actions, never seemed to enter her

head.

Many of Carrie Nation's sensational

deeds were inspired by her pre3 agents or the press agents of the thea

ters In which, during a few years, sh

worked. She was keen, too. In making

her contracts. She received from 2b0

to $1,000 a week for lecturing at thea ters. and always with the privilege o

selling In the lobby her little gol

hatchet pins and the history of her life

This privilege would net her from $100

to $250 a week extra.

The first work I did for her was as a

press ageatfoi a. . theater, in .Atlanta

Ga. The house, was puttlngo,n sensa

tional plays "at popular prices, and Carrie Nation was signed for two

twenty-minute lectures each day, for which she received $500 fyr the week with the usual lobby privileges. The house manager chose "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" for the we k's production, and Mrs. Nation's profits for the period

amounted to nearly $1,000.

In spite of the money she made, she refused absolutely to stop at a firstclass hotel. She preferred rather to she needed her money more than the hotel-keepers did. Not a single suggestion made by me, with a view to making her stay in At

lanta more sensational, was rejected by her. She arrived Sunday night and early Monday morning began her crusade. There was a big advertisement for cigarettes In a drug store window in the center of the city. In which a man made up to represent a manikin, with electric wires attached, smoked -cigarettes. I suggested that Mrs. Nationa pull him out of the window backwards. Of course there was a big crowd in front of the window and the little old woman saw her first chance for a sensation. She marched determinedly Into the store., stopped In the center and began a tirade against cigarette smoking.

Then, when the store became crowded with people, she went to the window.

opened the back of it. grasped the per

former Inside by the scruff of the neck

and yanked him to the floor. The

manikan was so surprised that he became galvanized and the crowd roared.

The next day the window was empty.

and remained so for the rest of Carrie Nation's stay In Atlanta.

I suggested to her that Governor

Hoke Smith was an Inveterate smoker.

'Is he? Well let's go to see him," shq

said. "It'll make good newspaper talk.

won't It?" '

We went to Hoke Smith's office, but

that gentleman was too shrewd for

Mrs. Nation. He recogniied her when she opened his door without being announced, and immediately threw his cigar into a cuspidor. Mrs. Nation was satisfied to give him a mild reprimand, and we left for more fertile fields.

Down to the police station the littla

woman marched, followed by a crowd,

which jeered and laughed at her. When we went Into the station the chief was seated at his desk smoking a big black cigar. Mrs. Nation went up to him, grasped the cigar and crushed it In her hand. "Don'tyou know you are smoking yourself into hell?" she screamed. Then she lit into the chief

and gave him the warmest ten minutes he had experienced for some time.

Of course the newspapers were full

of Mrs. Nation's doings, and none could

be more pelased at the publicity than she. She would get out on the street at 7 o'clock in the morning and wo.k. until the matinee. I asked her once why she did It. "It's good advertising.

son," she smiled. "It gets the people

Into the, theater and we need the money."

Mrs. Nation cleared nearly $150,00

from her lectures in churches and thea

ters. She would refuse, however, to go to a church if a theater made her a

better offer. A minister once upraided her for this, but she snapped him up with, "When I fish, I go where the

fishes are."

It Is a bitter commentary on her life

that she died leaving an estate of only

$10,000. All the money she made went to support useless tracts and grafting editors of various so-called prohibition

papers. One paper, published In Wash

lngton. D. C, ate up thousands of dol

lars of her money. She even mortgag

ed her home, she told me, to help keep this paper going. Her estate consisted of a few houses and lots In Shawnee and Guthrie, Okla., an Insurance policy and a bank account of $1,000 In Alexandria, Va. Her only daughter, Mrs. Charlton A. McNab, received the estate. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Kansas was left Mrs. Nation's autobiography, "Book of My Life." Mrs. Nation died of paresis, brought on by a nervous breakdown froih worry over a lawsuit to recover money due for her lectures. She died as she had lived after she found herself famous. She was obsessed with the desire to get money. I have always been in doubt whether or not she was sincere in her prohibition fight or whether she saw In' it "a method for gain. She was either a shrewd, unscrupulous business woman, or she was insane. I ani more inclined to believe, from th

contradictions Tn "her character, that she lost her mind before her first sa-toon-smashing expedition. It was Carrie Nation's boast that when she died the Lord would raise up other women to "carry the nation." The pity of her life shows the futility of a hopeless task. When she died her own Kansas, which she made "dry,' was overrun with bootleggers and dives. She witnessed the prohibition wave surge over the South. At her death she saw the reaction, and that the Southern states had begun to repeal the laws which they found Impossible to enforce. It was these facts

It is said, that went far toward making her a broken, disappointed old woman during her last years, when any one could lead her without resistance. The hopelessness of her efforts to establish a reform through fanaticism, the ceaseless demands of the blood-suckers who lived from her earnings, her lonely life and her death without friends to

comfort her made the tragedy in Carrie

Nation's life.

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