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“A LITTLE GIRL IN
A BIG SUN-BONNET”
Very Bright Paper Read By Miss Allice Baxter
Before the Women’s Clubs.
ABOUT THEGEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL
Corner Stone For Columbia’s Home
for Human Evolution to Be Laid By
“Hand That Rocks the Cradle.”
Miss Alice Baxter read the following
paper before the recent convention of
the Georgia Federation of Women’s
Clubs held in Home:
In presenting the subject of the estab
lishment of a National University at
Washington, I feel like “a little girl in
a big sun—bonnet*’ and in-as-much as I
did not know until very late, that I was
to wear the bonnet at this meeting, I
have had to put it on in somewhat of a
hurry.
My bonnet is nearly one hundred
years old and contrary to the usual his
tory of bonnets,- grows stronger as its
years grow longer. It was cut out by
Washington, basted together by Jeffer
son and Adams, Madison, Samuel
Blodgett, and Monroe, and in the course
of its history, has had so many stiches
put into it by illustrious men, that I
can’t half carry them in my mind. I
think the crown of the bonnet was
sewed in by Ex-Governor Hoyt of Wis
consin, United States Commissioner to
Paris in 1867.
Deeply impressed with Washington’s
earnest desire for the establishment of a
National University as manifested by
him in conversation, correspondence,
address to Congress, and bequest of
twenty-five thousand dollars, and feel
ing strongly the country’s need, Gov
ernor Hoyt has devoted much time to
the study of a National University—as
to why it is a leading want in American
education, why government should es
tablish such a university, what efforts
have here-to-fore been made in its behalf
and why these efforts should be vigor
.ously renewed. Governor Hoyt visited
all the leading universities of Europe,
and since 1867, has made a tour of this
country to learn the opinion of colleges,
State Universities, and thinking men,
every where on the university question.
He has been made chairman of a com
mittee of one hundred leading men,
whose object it is to secure from con
gress an appropriation befitting so great
an undertaking. Chief Justice Fuller is
chairman of the Executive Committee
of this one hundred.
When Washington cut out the uni
versity bonnet he left fifty shares of
Potomac River Navigation Stock, to
be kept by government in trust, at oom.
pound interest, until the university
should be established. These shares,
■which ha 1 they not been “lost in the
shuffle” between water and steam,
would not amount to over four millions
of dollars. They were given by the Vir
ginia legislature to Washington, and ac
cepted by him on condition that he
might give them to some public good.
The education of the youth of the coun
try was a desire near the great man’s
heart. He longed to have such advan
tages at home that young men would
not need to seek the University of Eu
rope.
He wanted them taught the science of
government, and he was anxious that,
at the juvenal age when opinions and
friendships are, most Jreadily formed,
there should be a national educational
center —a Columbia of thought, towhose
arms should be folded her children of
promise, there toimbibe not only
knowledge, but a sense of brotherhood
then—to be unfolded and [sent forth to
radiate broad views and patriotic prin
ciples from center to "circumference of
Columbia’s sweet Land of L'berty.
Washington’s dream has lived along in
the hearts of a number but the struggle
to ger on in our new world, for a long
time ks-pr considerations of higher edu
cation in the back gronnd. And some
how, since we have grown rich and
powerful, and great among nations—
since we have come to where as has
been recently stated we ship five hun
dred tons of doors, sashes and blinds in
one vessel to. Africa, ten thousand tons
of steel rails to Johannisburg, Africa,
and me hundred miles of wrought iron
pipt to China—we continue to ship be
tween three and Jour thousand young
men to the Universities of Berlin and
Leipsic, for the acquisition of knowledge
which goes to build upour nation. Even
our children nowadays know tha brain
not brawn must make a nation.
One of the presidents of the Washing
ton and Jefferson college of Pennsylva
nia, has said that, “We have sacrificed
Kane and Hall in a hunt for the North
pole, and we did send a few men to
watch the transit of Venus, but that
our apeing of scientific manners where
we found no unsurpassed National Uni
versity, is like the poor man who sent
his son to a rich friend’s house with a
patch on both knees and gloves on.”
Well, all these “potent, grave and
reverend seignors” have been knocking
at the doors of congress many years, and
feel they have reasonable hope of ulti
mate success. But men can work better
when they know that wives, mothers,
daughters, sisters, cousins, and aunts
are in lively sympathy with their efforts.
Therefore, it has come about chat pa
triotic queens of homes nave gone to
dreaming Washington’s dream and
have determined to help the committee
for the establishment of a National
University by raising two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars which shall be a
centenary memorial to the patriot who
gave his twenty-five thousand dollars
and which, taking form as an Adminis
tration Building for the proposed uni
versity, shall serve as tangible evidence
to government of the people’s interest
in a university.
In raising this money, it is hoped that
woman will use her tongue with such
persuasive eloquence as to make up such
men, as may be found napping and that,
in pretty feminine ways, she will create
such a wave of general interest, that
Uncle Sam overwhelmed by its force,
will pay the debt of honor to Washing
ton’s memory, and crown our present
incomplete system of public education,
with a university that shall equal—aye
excel anything Europe now offers.
Then it may be said that the corner
stone of Columbia’s home for human
evolution has been laid by the “hand
that rocks the cradle, ’ *
The university is not intended to
compete with any existing American
center of learning, and is favored by
such educators as President Gilman and
Prof Adams of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. It is designed for post-graduates
and is meant to teach not only what is
known but to lead on to those “realms
of investigation that border on infinity.”
Mrs. Ellen A. Richardson, of Boston,
chairman at large for the George Wash
ington Memorial, appoints a chairman
tor each state. The state chairman in
turn appoints vice-chairman for each
TRYING ORDEALS FOR WOMEN,
Mrs. Pinkham Tells How Wo-
men May Avoid Painful
Examinations.
To a modest, sensitive, high- //
strung young woman, especially
an unmarried woman, there is // 'jß
no more trying or painful ordeal II
than the “examinations,” which ||
are now so common in hospitals
and private practice. ~X Il
An examination by speculum, or \v|\v I I iff y*s
otherwise, is sometimes a positive //’ \ •’QZ
necessity in certain stages of // r/ 1 (S
many diseases peculiar to women, C)
so at least it is declared by the
session. This would not be the case if
patients heeded their symptoms in time. « \/>
If a young girl’s blood is watery, her skin -
pale and waxy looking, her lips colorless, bowels, Kj> &z <3
torpid, digestion poor, her ears and temples throb and
she is subject to headache, begin at once to build up her v>
system with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. <>)
Do not allow her to undergo a physical examination. Ig) • G> (ry \
Here is a letter from a young lady who requests that Jv G> <_> ( . \
her name should not be used, but gives her initials and /g y C
street number so that any inquiry addressed to her / 7 " < \
will be received. She says:
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —It affords me great pleasure to be able to say a few
words in regard to the merits of your Vegetable Compound. 1 was tempted
to try it after seeing the effects of it upon my mother, and now I feel like a
new person. lam a stenographer and was troubled with falling of the womb
and female weakness in general. I continued to work until I was so weak I
could no longer walk, and the last day I was forced to stop and rest.
I was then so ill that I was compelled to stay in bed, and so nervous
that I could not hold anything in my hands. The least noise or sufpfise
would cause my heart to beat so loudly, and I would become so weak that I
could hardly stand. I suffered for almost a year. It is different now. I
can go about my work with pleasure, while before, work was a drudge.
“ Trusting that my words of praise may help some other afflicted person,
and be of benefit to womankind in general, I remain, Yours in gratitude,
L. H.» 444 S. East St., Indianapolis, Ind."
TUI ROME TKIBONI THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11,
State Congressional district, who, to
gether with th»» presidents of state or
ganizations constitute toer state commit
tee. Each congressional vice-chairman
invites presidents of dubs, chapters, and
whomsoever she chooses from her con
gressional district, to act on her com
mittee.
All clubs and orders are invited to
send delegates to the general convention
in Washington on December 14th. Be
sides business, there is to be an informal
reception, a banquet, a trip to Mt, Ver
non—and thus a little nonsense thrown
in with this my big patriotic business.
Mrs. Isaac S. Boyd, of Atlanta, a
warm personal friend of Mrs. Richard
son, is chairman for Georgia. Mrs.
James Jackson, of Atlanta, is vice state
chairman. The list of congressional
vice chairman is not complete. Mrs.
Boyd earnestly desires that every
woman shall feel herself an important
factor toward the university movement.
The contributions asked, are for a penny
—and upward. Each club is requested
to devote one meeting to the question of
a National University, and to appoint
Washington’s birthday as National Of
fering Day to the great cause.
When 1 was at school, I could not
always keep the future in mind nor
fancy that some day I might want to
fling my thoughts together to talk to my
federated sisters, but I could see that I
did not want to be at the foot of my
class.
•’ Women are only girls grown tall.”
In our desire for the university which
looms up in the distance, we can say, as
Patrick Henry said of Virginia.
We are not Georgians, but Americans,
but America includes Georgia, hence we
remain Georgian Americans.
Mrs. Henrotin observes that Southern
women are noted for state pride—Shall
we not verify her words? Throughout
all the states, thinking women are to co
operate in this work. Shall Georgia be
behind? Let the women of Georgia,
church women, club women, the power
ful press women, society women—all
the brilliant, gifted, charming Geor
gians take up this university subject
and when the thirteen columns wheel
into line, we need not fear for Georgia’s
standing.
Go to Washington in your “best bib
and tucker” and for the first time in
over a hundred years shake hands on a
subject of united interest with a United
States of women.
And why may not the work be play as
well as work? If I had the money I
would give a George Washington tea
party. where stately costumes of colo
nial days should be revived. I can’t give
the pirty, but “the woods are full” of
those who can.
Until recently, about all I knew of
Washington was that he would not tell
a lie, and had saved his country. I had
never read his life—l have just laid it
down, and continue to feel the influence
of that great broad, universal world’s
hero, whose most exalted characteristic
lay in his firm reliance on the God
“whose he was and whom he served,”
and to whose wholly keeping he commit
ted the patriot army, in his tender fare
well after those eight long years of
bitter struggle.
Shall we women not delight at the
close of this hundred years to honor the
patriot’s earnest bequest for a National
University?
Yes, women. I have tried to show
you my sky-scraping bonnet. It is
big, broad, womanly—“ There is no
nigger in the wood-pile, ” at which man
may stand backing his ears.
All the women of the country may
get inside of the George Washington
Memorial Bonnet, and there is standing
room for the men. Then, perhaps all
the united women of the states may
help to tie the strings around Uncle
Sam’s neck.
Auck Baxter.
Secretary for Georgia committee, of
The George Washington Memorial for
the es’ablishmeut of a National Univer
sity at Washington.
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MOKE BOOKS; BESS FOOTBALL.
Five Almost Fatal Accidents Near Pit s
burg Saturday.
Some one writing to the Atlanta
Journal has this to say:
To the Editor of The Journal:
A press dispatch dated Pittsburg, Pa.
November 6, says:
“Five rather serious accidents hap
pened in football games inand near this
city today.
“In the Greensburg-Duquesne Ath
letic and Country club game, Floyd
Rose, Duquesne quarter back, had his
shoulder dislocated and will play uo
more this season.
“Robert Grange, of the Gellefield
athletic team, suffered concussion of
the biain and is now lying in a precari
ous conditicn.
“William Walker, of the Pittsburg
college team, had his right clavicle
fractured.
“George Lasalle, of the New Haven,
Pa., eleven, had his collarbone broken,
and Bert Ritchie was hurt internally
and had to be carried from the field,
probably fatally injured.”
And there are those who tell us this is
a very proper sport for college boys, and
that it ought not to be outlawed. It is
denied that it is more dangerous than
other games, and the legislature is be
sought to spare it in the interest of
athletics.
A game the playing of which so con
stantly requires a surgeon’s presence
should not escape legislative surgery.
The old-time colleges turned out Cal
houns, Websters, Everetts, Toombs and
Hills, without any intercollegiate games
at al). Suppose the colleges let up on
athletics a little and take a turn at
books. One Ben Hill is worth a conti
nent full of Corbetts and Sullivans.
Let us have less ball and more books.
Oldtimer.
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A Question Often Asked By Those Afflict
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Thousands who had resorted to ex
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NEARLY 100 PONIES,
The Finest Collection in the World to Be
Seen in Sipe & Blake’s Show.
Lovers of fine horse flesh will find in
Sipe & Blake’s America’s greatest dog.
pony and monkey show, which will be
seen here in two performances on No
vember 13 the finest collection of Shet
land ponies ever presented to the amuse
ment world. The herd comprises 98
little horses ranging from 24 to 42 inches
in heigth. and as they are all kind and
gentle all the children are invited to
visit and play with them free of charge
in their pony tent* that will be located
adjoining the exhibition tent on the
Hunt lot at the coiner of Second avenue
and East Second street.
All of the ponies appear in each per
formance in conjunction with the dogs
and monkeys, but after the show is over
the children are cordially invited to ride
the poniis free of charge.
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