Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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rfare of true civil-ization, with all the power and energy ofyouth. She is a woman of splendid abil-ity, of superb moral courage, and richlyendowed with that passionate love forhumanity, for justice and the higher de-velopment of the people that more thanaught else is demanded by civilizationfrom her leaders to-day. She was born in Litchfield, Michigan,and was educated at Hillsdale College.After graduating she taught school inLafayette, Indiana, where she becamethe principal of one of the public-schools—the first woman to hold that position inthe city. One day Mrs. Gougar was summonedto the home of a neighbor where, she be-held one of those frightful tragedies thatare frequently witnessed in all Christianlands. A woman had been murderedby her husband while he was insanethrough strong drink. The horrible pic-ture presented by the dead wife, the blear-eyed husband and the crushed and terror-stricken children, roused the youngwoman as a trumpet-call from heaven. 884 Digitized by Google
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HELEN M. GOUGAR Photo, by Phillips, La Fayette. Iud. Thk Arena Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Helen M. Gougar: A Noble Type of American Womanhood. 885 By temperament she belonged to thatclass, all too rare in our age, who whenthey hear the voice of duty unhesitatinglyobey. No thought of ease or popularity,no consideration or self-interest or thepleasant applause of the world will deterthese royal natures to whom duty is divineand her call the command of the Infinite. Hence we find Mrs. Gougar soonamong the most eloquent, logical andconvincing temperance advocates of theland. For many years she was in thevery front of the fight, nowhere beingmore effective than when appearing be-fore legislative committees, for she was,we think, the only prominent temperanceworker who possessed a thorough legaleducation. This she had acquired aftercoming to Indiana. Possessed of a natu-ral aptitude for study and not contentwith her achievements as a teacher, shedetermined to master the law. Af

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