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Show m ,. : -- iiiTNr r 1 H & y , ;M .VIRGINIA SIOANE WM fcfiS J ill '(0 ' ' ' J rs. C. L. Tiffany. . I . "7 ' ',;, C ' $f SaV?"? KCISNTLY the cngugc-Ksa cngugc-Ksa nient of Mrs. Grover R&3 Cleveland to Pttjfcssbr I. JSJ. Preston wns an-JWL-p-jfo notinccd. Mors is an il-jfcjESjjsg il-jfcjESjjsg lustrious example of i a jg college woman who has Bfccn n devoted wife nutl mother, placing Br borne and furnily always above ilie Bvniuour and clnnior of public antPsocinl HJfc in Winch site inlj-'lit liave had so con-Jpicnous con-Jpicnous a part. VuMrs. Cleveland -.vn,s a graduate of JVells College, an institution wliicfi, al Bjmugh it does not rank with Hirii Mavrr. WJnssur and other college having a cur- fVfjculiim almost identical with thai of JWicn's college?, was greatly in advance of ' "TSgLP seuiiuuiicc and bnardinjr schools tlfhieli were lli"ir forormincr? A girl ijfflfljo went to Wells was regarded as jgPJoiue " althoiifrh not of quite so deep a 1SJyi as those who presumed to so in for iTJmui-h Greek. I.tilln and mathematics, JSTssttheir brothers. Tin' very word college :-i2gciued to many a little unladylike, Uitt jjSl'Jrs. Oe eland's grace and feiiiiuimly g&rere unscathed by her college course. je5cjj)itc her youth she adapted herself 3tff,ne demands made i;pon her :i( the S&fcEirsi Lady" and ct an example of ificioufi hospitality aud domestic devo-joii devo-joii that won for her universal uppinba-fejloij. uppinba-fejloij. After the rr-lircmenr of her hus-j,SSnd hus-j,SSnd and even more since her wldow-SJgJMd wldow-SJgJMd Mrs. Cleveland hns been chiefly a: 1 "llnioht solely concerned with the education educa-tion and training of her children and the fj)ljro.of her liome. only appearing in outride out-ride "matters relating to education and ffilijjulnnthropy j 9?t is lnleroMiiij; that Mr. Clcchind"s (Knee is a professor In the very college 'SXjwhich she was once a student. i HTu the quarter of a century that has' IVbpscd since France b'olsom. who he-J Mnine Mrs Grover OIovlIiiik almost ini-j jjcoiately after her grad-.uuioii. left Wells ( Hlollego, conditions in regard to the edit-, HTtion of girls have changed greatly, j fit has boon discovered" that no more, Warm has come of sending girls to college' Bjmn of teaching them to rend, an act Kvhicb ut one time was also under bub-Kjcion. bub-Kjcion. j Nowadays I'irls are beins entered for, Bllcge almost before thej are out of the Iwiirserv. Bryu rhwr, Yahiiir, ijmith and'1 iJtS'elle.sloj all baVe loug li.st-. nullify of the Jipplicatiou9 being made by luol'beri vrw Btre graduates of thoec Institiitions and Hire eager Unit heir daughters sllrfi'ld Biavc the same alma niatcr. Others wlto"j Hiuvc not enjoys! a college educa'ion arc Bager to insure it to their daughters, Twenty years ago, the Rev. Samuel Bf. Dike, taking note of the. great in-Hjreasc in-Hjreasc in the number of girls going In for light' i- education nt that time, asked : "What arcall these women going to H . - ...aal AAA MAllMiillWllI do? What will be the effect upon' si----ind upon society? "Mnrrlase aud :iie life of the home aud of society will nusorb the larger part of educated women as a manor of course I'or It is inevitable that most educate. 1 women of r- II elates will become wive and mother5! as surely a most educaied men will marry and become father f children. Ther" must be subject in which women will tnkc a deeper interest than men. Tha place of the family :n the social order and of women in the family, and their future n- wive and mothers, will inevitably draw the attention atten-tion of women to the family nn.l ihe home as subjects of educational importanc in pioportim o their richness in eduea-Itional eduea-Itional material and value-ami to their close connection with ibe-life'of-wontou.-' Has this prophecy been fulfilled? From time to time during the? twenty years the alarm ha been raFsqd that eollege women were not given In 'marrying and1 rearing families. Ii has formed one of the favoilte arguments of those who weu 'opposed to a college education for women. 1 Ibut in spite of it girls from nil over thej country in incieaaing number trooped to the colleges year by year mul demamlcd 'admission. Alio new colleges were opened and the standards of the old ones-raised. ' Investigations have been made by vnrl-lOiis vnrl-lOiis college organizations and by individuals individu-als to liud out what percentage of college i graduate innrry, how many. children they ,hac and other farts relating to their do-.mesticity. do-.mesticity. Miss M. Carey Thomas, prci-1 idcni of Ilryn .fawr, who has been partic-ulnrrv partic-ulnrrv active iu work of this kind, calls ntleulion to the fact that it is only among the ry rich and the ery poor :lhat practically all the girls of the atn-lily atn-lily marry. In (he middle classes, from which In the past oollejic students hac (bcen almost wholly recruited, only about J fifty per cent marry, and this Is About the average of the collcgo girls who ibarry. I. is also stated that if it is true that college wmnqu marry Inter and have fewer rhHdrcn than non-college women, tlmt tendency ten-dency is not exclusively theirs. The diminishing di-minishing birtl rale is generally held to be due chiclly to the entrance of women into Industrial and commercial occupation occupa-tion If lolh'ge women have few cbiblien. it is Mini that they gic to these chilihcn the en re prompted by the highest Intelligence. Intelli-gence. It is dillicult to obtain itifonna- 11- ''':-IIMMmkkwsm Mrs. W. W. Pcnffield. MjjKw & ifcBS ' Mrs. Grover Cleveland, graduate of Wclis g College. ' ' ;S l3tewir Mrs. W. H. Easlmond. former President Woman's University Club. fiolo i T)r. tion nbout liome life, but one obvious fact stands out clearly rarely Is a college woman divorced. Wcllesley boasts that among all her .thousands of graduates there a not a divorcee. This does not inan. however, that col-! col-! lege girls nre too slmilhieed to eon-...... Do College Women Make Goodr I I siiler a proposal from n man who has ibcen divorced. Last year a Smith col- lege graduate became the bride of a 'man i worth many millions who had been ; divorced only a day or two before, and j the marriage is said to lie a ery happy one. In regard to the domestic idc of ex-istenec. ex-istenec. college women are giving it more attention than they did a few years ago. Perhaps the icp roaches thai have been heaped upon them have spurred them to special activity in this line, or perhaps il is because in so many of the colleges departments of domestic science have been introduced and because the psychology psychol-ogy -of the child has become such a iroml nent feature in modern education. Or. after all. il may be that the old belief that "blue stockings" couldn't keep house and rear children, which lias blighted the college woman's reputation, is fading aw-.iy. I.nt year when Ihe Association of Col- lesiale Alninnae met in New York cards: were h-inded to aH'collcge gtndualcs at-j E5SarSl35Pf ! liir ML WW 1 i w$& y. Mrs. Herbert E. Parsons. .ending t lie convention on which were the questions. I "Do you think that at some timejn pour education you should hac had a ,speellic iraining for home life? What jand where?" , The answers received were in favor of 'home iraining DouuHtic science, it was I recognized. Is a very different thing from the old fashioned training for nomc life, but it is in keeping with the trend of the tunes. Mi-s. Mabel Parker Tluddlcston. who had charge of these statistic,, made the statement that without some knowledge of biologv. bacteriology and psychology women are as much cut qff from llw currents cur-rents of civilized thought and of righteous right-eous concerted action a? person unable to read or write hnvc been for past ceu-turios. ceu-turios. The New York branch of the Association Associa-tion of Collegiate Alumnae was so strongly impressed with the desirability of a more thorough preparation of the College girl for the liomeinahms and jl.oiuckcoping problem, thill sbe would be likely to face Ihat it asked that the head of every residence hall iu women's colleges col-leges hnvc n bachelor's degree and be capable of making her iloriinin an object lesion for scientific housekeeping as well is for moral, aesthetic and 3ocial training. train-ing. It was also asked that the courc In biology be exlcndeJ. Of course thcie are still sticklers for the uld ideas who think that the domestic, I mining should be n post-grnduate course.! Just as medicine, architecture and many other specialized subjects are. or Ihnt it1 should be taught at home The president of I'.ryu Mnwr hnldri Ihnt "girls who me to be mothers should be made familiar with the great iiinri of inherited knowledge knowl-edge for which the four years in college are none too long " Mis Thomas, by the wav. lin a ri?ht to be heard, for she was one ot the early college girls and hns bten in touch with eoliege renditions ecr since she graduated. gradu-ated. "Heforc I went to college," she said one time. "I had never seen but one college graduate. I went to ee her with fear and tremblinr, lest I should discover that Ishe had horns and hoofs. It was a grent relief to find this Vassar graduate handsome hand-some and drccs'.d like other women. When ; I went 10 l.i-ipsic to study after 1 had rrrariuaicd from Gonuil my inothr wrte 'that inv nanif was never mint oned 10 her bj the women ol h-r acqucinjaocu I Sfifk U ' :$$ losing popularity with the opposite sox, J however, cannot deter girls from wanting to go to college. Tlipre nre so inanyl compensations and, brsides, college does! not put a bau upon the really attractive girl, a nil college men are marrying college col-lege girls every day. even if there may have been, a lime when they thought they wouldn't. ' 1 College girls may still, as n rule, be a j little older than other girls when theyj marry, but that Is in line with the tend-1 etiey of the, lime. l'rofesnr I'ranklin II Giddings. of Columbia University. 1 snjs tii.it is duo in part 10 the fact that I Hi fJj I Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict. '$1 m . Mrs. John D. Haney, President College jfe't Vomen's Club. 1'Pi " " " was thoiiglit to be as much of a disgrace 10 my family as thuiigh 1 had clcped with the coachman." Since those days Mjss Thonin has seen girls of the lifshs.st social position enier the college of which she is the head without with-out nny los3 of cast" Miss Helen Taft was n student (here when her father was circled to the Presidency Moreover, she has een them growing stronger and mom athletic year by year. jThp tradition that college life tended to -break down the health of girls has all .but vnnished I One prejudice that die? hard i that college boy, and men in general are 'supposed 10 entertain against the college trirl Some colleges have this curse rest-ling rest-ling more heavily upon them I linn others, tnnd more thnn one girl hns refused to go 'lo a certain college because its (.indents w-ere said lo be unpopular with the 'students of a man's college not a thousand thou-sand miles away. Uven the fear of 1 I SJuHsZh 'isV5u? . - T'.w?i Mrs. Vladimire Simkhovitch. I they arc more fastidious ibau oilier girl: !in choosing husbands. 1 Dr. James .7. Walsh, jn commonlln; I on the lateness of marriage of collcgi I women and their sninll families, sail I tlmt occupation with other things neccs isarily detracts from the care of childrei and it exaggerated, celibate condition 1 to the limitation of families within nar I row boiders. At certain periods in tin J world's history, he says, such women ac cumulate mid the tendency to cclibae; or very limited maternity makes itsel felt and then Ibis clas fails to propagib ' enough of their species to take tlifi j places in the world. If women's college; -A...... .-ftA.1 had to depend 'wholly upon the progenj H of their graduate lo (ill the classes ii ' H Mircccdiug yr-.-irs The number of .suii'.cnir H would couslnntly tend to decrease. H Miss M. Carey Thomas. Presirienl ,Bryn B Mawr College, who hns investigated mar , . IB naoi 0; college Q-aduatet. IB 'J'l.e saipo statement, might h;-Tcr.te H witli almost equal force about college men. howevpr. IH Variety of interest and work for th fl gMierni social velfare which cbaracteri.c H so iiniiiy college women evidently docs H lint uilccfcrc with marriage. Mrs. Her- H 1 bert 1'arsous, formerly KIsic CIcw, a H I graduate of Rarnnrd, who is entitled to H 1 write several decrees after her name, ha taken a vivid interest in social, sociolog- H j leal and political matters and at the same H Itiiue is a model housekeeper aud mother. H I Mrs. Y. G. Simkhovitch, the head of B Greenwich House Settlement and on .a H score of boards ami committees, is the H mother of two children and has a home I H in tin' country near New York. iH Mrs. Charles l. Tid'auy Suds time for H golf suffrage aud other outside affairs ' 'without detracting from her home in- H itercsts. Mrs. William W. Pcnncld, M IwIioh' name is linked with suffrage ac- I H Uivitics and other problems of the day, j H has lime for her beautiful home iu the H Miss Crystal Eastman was so busy with jH all kinds of philanthropic and sociolog- H icai work that her fellow workers were 'surprised that she had time for anything H .else, but none of these things interfered ' j willr hCr accepting' (he right man when H he proposed and she is now Mrs. Ilene- il j Recently the president of the Woman's M University Club. Miss K. L. Hooper. M was married to Mr. William II. Kasl- I Most of the officers of the college iH -'Inliinmae n-ociatious iu New York arc H s j married women. Mrs. W. D. Cameron H 1 is president of the Welleslcy Alumnae M I Association and Mrs. W. I'ickard, sccrc- ,1 ,'tary: Smith's president is Mrs. H. 1 H s'MacNeil: Mount Ilolyokc's Mrs. B. O. H .' Hovel; Mrs. Frederick h. Kcays is presl- H e dent of the YaAsar Students' Aid Asso- H -elation, and Mrs. Louis Guttmau sec re- H I lu the membership of these nssocia- IH virions arc many married women and most IH r of tbcui could give a report of happy VM s- homes and well trained children. VM |