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One of these Cadets of Temperance sashes still exists at the Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is made of red fabric, trimmed with white ribbon, and adorned with a rosette of red, white, and blue ribbon, and a sequined star. Although the sequins are now tarnished and the cloth slightly moth-eaten, the sash is still an impressive sight. When members wore sashes like it at their meetings and at public events, they signaled their camaraderie with each other and their membership in a cause that was larger than themselves. The sashes, however, also emphasized the hierarchy within the society, as adult supervisors and teenage leaders wore more elaborate garb than rank and file members. This sash, with its shiny sequined star, is that of an officer rather than a common Cadet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cadets of Temperance sash provides a window into the world of juvenile temperance, in which sashes and ceremony were an important part of their moral crusade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Abigail Corcoran<\/strong> is <\/strong>(she\/her\/hers) is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on histories of childhood and gender in the nineteenth-century United States. Her dissertation focuses on juvenile activist societies like the Cadets of Temperance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A red sash worn by leaders of the Cadets of Temperance, a juvenile activist society of the 1850s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childish-things"],"yoast_head":"\n
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