LATE MRC. CARRIE NATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 98, 15 June 1911, Page 7

LATE MRC. CARRIE NATION.

The l ito Mrs. Cairio Nation (whoso c !cat:i nan just been announced by c:ihh), was a militant temperance advocate with methods of her own, which c.u.md her Ime nickname ol “The A!iuuican Saloon Sinasncr. Klie went „d.y-)uci in America at one timp armed wit.ln a batchct, with which she smash(l fcl:e uinflows of liquor saloons, in December, Mrs. Nation paid a mail lo England. '1 he following paraui\,jtj) from a London newspaper of tea! time paves a fair indication of It.a I,jaii pressure at which this c::'■:.n rdinary woman lived: “While tea\ piling" on the Baker Street and Waterloo 1 tail way yesterday, Mrs. Carrie Nation caused delay to a train between i rafalgar Square and the Embankment Station. She appears lo have become exasperated on reading a cigarette advertisement, and, ncMTinving lier friend’s silver-mounted umbrella, aimed a blow at it. Thu handle of the umbrella went through the carriage window, and the traiiy wan delayed. After the officials' of Inc line had taken Mrs. Nation’s name and address she was allowed to proceed. Speaking at a meeting of women in liawkeston Hall, Westminster, later in the afternoon, Mrs. Nation said that, looking at the cigarette advertisement and another for whisky close to it, her fury boiled over, and so she nicked up an umbrella and smashed the thing. Sho had been in gaol a great many times, and beaten and whipped and kicked, hut she intended to oppose the great evils of drink and smoking. Earlier in the day Mrs. Nation took advantage of many opportunities of rebuking cigarette smokers in the streets.’’