New-York tribune., 1902-02-09

the true home maker and for the true home keeper
there is something more essential than schools
teach. The great need Of the home Is a
great. broad. sane personality. and the develop
of this may be helped by a broad objective
education.
lie explained the terms of Mr.. Rockefellers re-
cent pledge to the institution. II promises dollar
for dollar up TO the sum Of $9O0O0 for all that is
raised by the college before June. 1904 Long be
fore that time Dr. Taylor hopes to have the
500 900 in the hands Of the trustees and the much
needed new buildings for the library, art gallery
and museum buildings completed.
William Henry Frost spoke on the Not Modern
Woman" He said in part:
Two considerations I'll me with more qualification
than it is at all likely that can convey to you.
First, this is a proud day because Of the COMPANY
in which ind myself. l learned my letters from
alphabet which said
IT is for Tallerand. t9asting Miss Truth,
youth"
There is no need to dwell on the unprofes-
sinuating that Mark Twain was such a stranger To
which would direct attention is the bond OF sym
pathy which unites all of with TaTleTaud, in
that Mark Twain was the friend of his youth. II
a that time in my own youth, when first learned
The Innocents Abroad to one another. a time
when my education had only reached point where
at that time angel had said to me. The day
will speak to the same audience" | should have
said. "Wel-you are an angel and you are sup
Ny other of express qualification is the i'm
pliCatio coming from assembly of that
unmarried possibly know enough o be
allowed speak at all. If they teach that attitude
of mind at Vassar-n other words, If they teach
that the lowest and meanest of Gods creatures is
not wholly TO be despsed-then Vassar is even a
nober institution than | il credit for being
and if ] had any girls they should all go there
regret deeply YOU that the progress O the
college seems likely to miss the impetus which
ii would thus obtain.
And yet I do not why l should not know as
much about women that woman knew about
men who being asked why she did not marry
said 81 don't need a husband. ! have a dog that
growls. a parrot that swears and a that stays
out all night"
There a time. eighteen or twenty wears ago
when what ] did not know about moi
knowledge. but at aDout that time began to for
get. and have been forgetting long and so fast
! that | fear by this time pretty near TO tusti-
| flying the general opinion Of me. And as if ex-
pressly for my greater confusion. the time
! when began 10 forget women themselves began to
change and so II is clear that pretend TX
| only about the whom I know nd NOT
The not-modern woman had every virtue except
| logic ana that women usually regard as vice
| IL was not alone that all graces were in ono
! woman, but all graces were In every woman SO
| that she could not have failed satisfy even
| Beredict '~''
Rich she shall be. that's certain: wise or I'll
! none; vrtuous, or I'll never cheaper her: fair or
! I'll never look on her; mild come not near me.
| excellent musician and her hair shall he of what
Rich she was, that certain when all that
she looked on was rtghtfully hers. and should
| Wise-how could she be otherwise? Not that she
| had learned so much, but that whatever she said
| was right, because she said H. Virtuous-she ala
not have all the virtues because thsy virtues.