The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-20
Enth ustastiC Vaxsar Alumne.

confer them on many more. London
Queen.
nthustastic Vassar Alumne.
The parlors and ballroom of the Hotel
Brunswick were filed Saturday with
pretty girls OF the Vassar Alumn@ asso-
citation. Those same rooms see many
gay gatherings-portly gentlemen farm
ers" of the New York Farmers club,
jolly member of the Coaching club, and
all sorts of entertainments to the great
and good but energetic little Abe
Godchaud. who looks after that sort of
thing said that he didn't remember ever
having heard SO much musical feminine
laughter bubbling through the hotel.
and be was certain he hadn't seen so
many pretty girls since he took off kits.
There were $50 of them-enough to
insure the eternal prosperity of sum-
mer resort-and they all seemed so en-
thusiastlc about their alma mater and
so energetic IN the transaction of the
associations business. and withal so
happy and athletic. that it was a very
strong argument III favor of the higher
education of women Business was at
tended to first. They held two business
meetings one for the general associa-
ton to which the Chicago Boston and
Washington branches sent delegates,
and one for the New York branch: and
1t was not until those were over that
luncheon was served
There was an informal discussion of
the quotation. Shall women have the
same wages as men for performing the
same work? in which Mrs. Elizabeth
Howe. OF Boston. and Mrs. Ellen Rich
ard. of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. took a prominent part The
immediate outcome of the discussion
was the passage Of a resolution to in
crease the Marie Mitchell fund. the in
come OF which supports the chair of
astronomy from $4,000 to $4,000.
thereby making the salary of the astro-
nomlcal professor equal to that paid to
men in the great universities. Of the
$5O. 900. $1,000 il still to be raised mostly
by subscription New York Recorder.
Business Training and Motherhood.
At the February meeting of Sorosis in
New York the question Should wom-
ans training for business career take
into consideration that she may become
a wife and mother" was discussed by
Mrs Ada NJ Brown. chairman of the
day, "a follows:
Woman's function in the world is de-
terlnined by nature-she is made to be
the mother of the race. Accepting the
scientific fact, 1t does not follow that
motherhood absorbs all her energies.
Amelia Barr has been the mother of fif-
teen children. yet her books are accepted
by publishers and readers. Train girl
as we will we cannot convert her into a
mere sexless machine. Physiologically
we must take into consideration that she
may become wife and mother. though
practically we ignore It. 1t is mistake,
then. to train girls precisely like boys.
No true womanly woman wishes to be a
man, she is quite satisfied to be good
specimen of her own sex.
Women are handicapped in the race
of life by having to fit themselves for
two careers-primarily, for trade or
profession, contingently, for the home
and family that may come. Women
students or wage earners must sew.
cook, make and mend, wash their hand
kerchiefs and take infinite pains to look
pretty to attract the men, How many
men students make their own trousers?
The same qualities which make a
successful business woman are necessary
in good wife-promptness, punctuai-
ty, method and exactness In this age
has been evolved a woman with equal
powers for being and doing. with wom-
anly instincts and masculine skill