Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-03

our mothers baked, and we learned how -
make mush. One of our staples during the
winter was buckwheat cakes. We usually
had some one start the batter and then bY
adding to 1t from day to day we could
keep 1t alive so that We had fresh buckt
wheat cakes every morning This made y
cost us very little and still We lived fairly
we'll
Senator Fairbanks remained at Delaware
| until he graduated. The expenses for tho
first college term We're Si2 or less than -
per week One of his own sons has sinc9
graduated at Delaware and another az
Princeton and third at Yale. venture
the last two have each spent more in one
year than he did in his whole college course.
Small College VS.. Large College.
In talking with Senator Fairbanks asked
him If he did not regret that he had not
been able to go to Yale or Harvard or
some other Of the more famous colleges. He
replied:
Il doubt whether l should have been bet.
tered thereby. The small college has many
advantages over the large one. It's stuA
dents come more closely in contact with
their professors. they get to know eaoh
other and they form stronger friendshipA
which are of advantage in after life There
is more earnest work done in the small cola
leges, education' is a more serious business
there, and upon the whole l doubt W neither
L should have gained by going to one OF
the large eastern schools
DO you think college education paysr'
Yes, every boy who can should 20 to
college The training there will develop
him and make him better able to grapple
with the strenuous life and the great prob
lens of the day
Fairbanks Ancestry.
Senator Fairbanks had a curious experi-
ence IN Lancaster, Mass, year or so ago.
He had to make speech there in connec-
ton with George Frisbie Hoar, Henry Cabot
Lodge and other descendants of old New
England families. When his time came to
address the audience he surprised that
the chairman did not introduce him. and
he afterward told that there were 50
many of his ancestors buried in the cema,
terry outside that he needed no introduction
to that community.
Senator Fairbanks comes originally from
Jonathan Fayerbanks, a Puritan who came
to Boston about sixteen years after the ad-
vent of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.
From Boston old Jonathan went to Ded-
ham and built home there. which, | am
told, has since been acquired by the Mas
sachusetts Historical Society. From Ded-
ham some of his descendants went to Lam
caster and others moved off to Vermont.
Senator Fairbanks father was born in Ver-
mont and began his lifework as hand IN
a wooden mill at Lowell. When he was six.
teen he moved west to Ohio and worked
there for 31lz cents a day.
This was when Ohio was just settling,
and there was a great demand for wagons
The senator's grand uncle was wagon
maker In Massachusetts and his father OBJ
serving this demand. went back home and
learned the wagon making trade and then
came to Ohio to practice II. He there made
a partnership with a wagon maker in Union
county and married his daughter who
thereby became Senator Fairbanks mother
The wagon business proved good and the
family soon got far enough ahead to buy
land and to amaSs competency
FRANK G. CARPENTER