Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
You know Carry Nation as the woman who hated alcoholic beverages so much that she vandalized bars with an hatchet and became the symbol of the Temperence Movement. Nation was always religious, but she only became an opponent of alcohol after she found out her first husband was an alcoholic.
Her saloon-smashing career began with a voice from God, and soon turned into a lesson on the value of publicity.Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women, she would march into a saloon and proceed to sing, pray, hurl biblical-sounding vituperations, and smash the bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet that she had concealed under her black waterproof cape.
Carry responded with alacrity to appeals from citizens…
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