20 A TEETOTAL CAPTAIN 



Miss Willard told me afterwards how sur- 

 prised and delighted she was at this greeting. 

 Ship-commanders arc not always pleased to have 

 the company of temperance people, for many 

 of them think they cannot get along without 

 strong drink at their meals. 



We had been seated only a few minutes when 

 a gentleman opposite us ordered wine and urged 

 the captain to drink with him, saying, '"Will 

 not your friends, these ladies, allow me to order 

 glasses for them also?" 



"Oh, thank you," said the captain, "but you 

 do not know that this is Miss Frances Willard, 

 President of the World's Woman's Christian 

 Temperance Union, and I, too, am a teetotaler." 



After dinner the captain went up on deck 

 with us and invited us to come into his cozy 

 cabin parlor. Seated there, Miss Willard asked 

 him if he were willing to let us know how he 

 came to be a temperance man. 



"Oh, yes," he replied, "I should be delighted 

 to tell you about it, for I owe it all to my moth- 

 er, that although I have been through the temp- 

 tations of a seafaring life since my boyhood, T 

 do not know the taste of alcoholic drink or to- 

 bacco. 



