Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-04-01
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
Ms. Stanford of Retiring and Charitable
Disposition and Strong in
Will Power.

Although Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford
had been before the public for more
than a decade, in connection with the
great university at Palo Alto, Cal,
which her husband and she planned to-
sether and the policy of which, since his
death, she had controlled, few but her
relatives and friends had any accurate
notion of the qualities that made up this
remarkable woman's personality. \
most charming hostess in Washington
aud San Francisco. and a broad SYM
pathetic and generous woman, she yet
continued to maintain reserve toward
the public which was never lifted.
OF a naturally retiring nature, she en-
joyed reading particularly books on edu-
cation and religion. and there was moth
ing she liked better than to have her
house filed with young nieces and
nepheWs.
In point of resolution and will power,
Mrs Stanford was probably the equal of
her husband. They tell a story which IL
illustrates her calm way of getting around
difficulties. 1t was after Mr.. Stanford
had been made governor Of California
perhaps the happiest period of Mrs.
Stanford's life-that the latter decided
to give some big function in the palatiql
mansion they had built on Mob hill, San
Francisco. A few days before the date
she sent for a decorator and consulted
with him regarding a certain kind of
guided moulding, a feature in the decora-
tons of The drawing room which she
wished 10 he reproduced in the reception
room adjoining.
And l want it done Immediately" she
added,
Impossible" replied the decorator.
1T would take two men at least six
weeks to do it,
Oh then it's not impossible at ALL"
was Mrs. StanfOrd's quiet but decided
answer. IF two men can do it in six
weeks, twelve men can do 1t III one
week, and twenty-four men in three
days. Please have twenty-four men
here tomorrow
The reception room was brave in its
slit moulding on the night of the recep-
ton, three days later.
Mrs Stanford numbered among her
iitIihate friends many prominent women
IKE Mrs. L. ). Grant and Mrs Benia-
MN harrison. She was what is called
Womans woman" The homely vir.
tues meant more to her than those more
commanding and snowy and her man
ner remained quiet and unostentatio1s.
Although Daughter of the American
nHeY9luuon. with plenty of good old New
England fighting blood in her veins, this
woman of millions liked to talk of the
DAYS when she did her own work and
took boarders, ito help along''
W ME Mrs. Stanford believed firmly
m the advancement of women, her in
dependence of character prevented her
from identifying herself openly with the
suttragists. She never came out in fa-
Vor OF equal suffrage, maintaining to the
Emu mat, While women should have a
voice IN the protection of their own Drop-
ng. 80 an
Her action in limiting the number of
Leland Stanford, Jr., university, to 800
caused people to say that she opposed
me higher education of women. This.
however. was entirely contr TO the
ruin. She herself gave her re; son for
"elhs so explicitly. She sd d lie was
"Irai4 that If the number women
Sh"uid ever exceed the number of men
tte public would come to regard the uni
NeFSlty as university for women in
stead of for men.
This was not my husbands wish"
SHe added. nor is it mine, nor would
1t nave been my sons
Tier attitude toward the temperance
n'"Nelheht was equally conservative and
!o' less disappointing to the extremists
~ me temperance ranks. Miss Frances
T.: Willard and she were davoted
trends yet Mrs. Stanford believed in
.ehperance-that is, moderation-apd
.i9l IN total abstinence. and the Califor-
-, w., vines that she used on her table
we're often those that had been made in
.ef own cellars from the VINEYARDS of
me great Nina ranch. in Tehama conn
Sty. - Tue uAiNeF-
~; hler interest IN kindersartens was gen
i; ;lS' 90 enthusiastic was she over the
AinderGarten as an agency for the civil
x szing OF the Stun child that She gave,
II.tpp'sU to the kindergartens of San
lfahclsco.-New York Tribune.