Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE T TALK ALK r L. L OF THINGS INGS GRAVE AND GAY COLLEGE EDUCATION Readers of The Telegram will recall the sapient remark recer recently attributed to Mrs Astor of New ork York to the effect effect ef ef- ef- ef feet that only college g graduates were fully entitled to consideration ration as gen gen- If It th the old l lady dY spoke as reported reported reported re re- re- re ported she must have hav some queer notions notions no no- about gentility A At a time when her late husbands husband's grandfather was dealing in itt the he green hides and pelts which he bought t from tom om the B Bowery wery butchers and holding holdin out in his little shop in slip General Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash Wash- ington was considered one of the most magnificent gentlemen h of or his generation genera genera- tion not ot only by his his' his his- admiring fellow citizens citizens' but by such of his late enemies ene ene- mies as the Marquis of Cornwallis Sir William Howe Sir II Henry en Y Clinton and others rs of that ilk ilk Yet Washington was without anything app approaching aChing a college college college col col- col- col lege education That Teat great American whom all Europe Europ felt h honored nored in honoring Dr B njamin Benjamin Franklin Frank Frank- lin ha was not not a University i man but a gr graduate from the printers printer's case Rob Robert Robrt Fulton father I o of steam navigation Jonathan EdardS Edwards Ed Ed- wards ardS l Henry nry Clay Audubon the great naturalist Abraham Lincoln John Marshall historian and giant among jurists Washington Irving Farragut and George Peabody all aU were outside of the pale set up by Mrs Mis Astor But by this time no doubt she feels sorry she spoke poke |