The last year of her stay, she held the position of composition teacher, and had charge of the Art Department of Pictures, Coins, and so forth.
The Packer Institute teacher attended several temperance prayer-meetings, and was present at the one (March 17, 1874) at which the first Brooklyn WCTU was organized.
The room was thronged with men and boys, and the hall whose door was open behind us, with women and girls of the lowest description.
The front room was separated by a screen, over and between the interstices of which gleamed curious eyes and grimy hands.
The meeting began; there was singing and prayer, the ladies spoke, one after another, in the old prayer-meeting fashion, with shut eyes, trembling and tear-choked voices.
I profess to hold in my hand and heart the one divine remedy for all the crime and misery in this world, part of which is now before me, and conventionality shut my lips from offering it as I felt I could!"
I was conscious that those hundreds of eyes were all fastened upon me; there was a dead silence, and I found myself not talking temperance, but painting a word picture of the crucified Christ.
The committee first recommended a badge of royal purple and violet; this was amended to a bow of white ribbon with a cross of red and an anchor of blue combined, woven in the fabric and stamped with the initials, “W.
C. T. U.” Winslow rose at the crisis of the debate and made an inspired speech on the superior symbolic meaning of the white ribbon as the badge.
[5][6] Winslow attended the National WCTU Convention held in Newark, 1876, where she was chosen editor of Our Union.
She was the author of five or six story books, published by the National Temperance Society, American Sunday School Union, and others.