Rest Cottage.

White Ribbon, Volume 6, Issue 65, 1 October 1900, Page 9

Rest Cottage.

Much misunderstanding still exists concerning the Headquarters of the National W.C. I F. of the United States, many thinking that as the ottic s of the National Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer are now in Rest Cottage they are necessarily in the home so long occupied by the Willard family, and for ever sacred to us all 00 this account. W ill our White Ribbon friends all over tlie woild take pains to make the following statement known through the Press, and in every possible way.

A commodious ad iition to tlie original Rest Cottage was built some fifteen or twt nty years ago by Miss \\ illard’s widowed sister-in-law, Mrs Mary B. Willard. This addition was purchased by Miss Willard when her sister moved to Berlin, Germany, and has been occupied by different tenants to whom it lias been let It is in this newer part of Rest Cottage, familial ly known as “ The North Side,” and now owned by the National W.C.T.U., that the sunny, spacious offices of Headquarters are located, for Miss Anna Gordon has no other thought in conncciion with Miss Willard’s home, of which she holds a life lease, than to sacredly preserve its rooms with their furnishings as they were left by Miss Willard and her mother. These rooms, forming a home distinct from the Headquarters, although both are under the same roof,

are visited by people from evety seciion of the country, and from many different parts of the world, and are destined to be a veritable Mecca for temperance workers and those who are interested to see the home where b ranees t E. Willard lived and loved and toiled to

make the whole world more home-like. Miss Gordon spares no expense to keep this precious home in perfect repair, and employs someone to be always in residence there to welcome visitors when she is absent, and she plans, when her life lease of the property is ended, and the estate rt verts to the National W.C.T.U., to \lace the home furnishings, of which she is the sole legatee, in the hands of the National W.C.T.U., with the understanding that they be considered a sacred trust, to be preserved with the utmost: care in the years to come.