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JTHB SUNDAY OEEGONIA2nT, POBTLAND, JULY G, 1902.
PACIFIC COAST
M EARLY a generation has passed since
.those -who founded this woman's
college saw their dearest hopes
realized. Many changes have come since
tfiat first Summer evening when a group
of girls were called together for evening
prayers and the deeply spiritual, loving
home life of Mills Seminary at.Benlcla
was transplanted and begun here. Thou
sands of girls have walked through these
beaut&ul avenues and have enriched mind
and hoart and soul; thousands of women
representing varied conditions of "Western
life have passed before the tender solici
tude of one who knows and remembers
them all. And they went forth with surer
knowledge of everything that makes tor
the sweetness.and glory of wdmanhood.
Since that first evening, the world has
grown Into larger life and larger Ideals.
A. generation adds many cubits to the sta
ture of a man, and It adds Immeasurable
height to the stature of the world. While
the tall trees upon this campus have
grown into groves and stately ranks;
while; one, after another, buildings have
risen to testify to the large plans of this
colloge. during this period of transforma
tion here, the map of Europe has changed.
That last Winter In Benlcia two topics
of Interes that were contemporary were
the Franco-Prussian "War and the new
seminary. Tue pathos of Alsace and Lor
raine, the German Army in Paris, the
federation of the German states Inter
spersed with these topics were those of
the .beautiful new homo over near the
Alameda hills. Yet no single element
making for the coming civilization, of the
"West can be 'accounted, small. "Who can
measure or predict the far-reaching in
fluences of this institution on these Pa
cine shores?
In a. Reminiscent Mood.
Dear Dr. Mills was often gone that
"Winter, and when he came back with a
now light in his face, with all beneficence
and hones for the future in that calm
smile of his, we thought and talked of the
oomfng year, and in our girlish, fancies
anticipated entering Upon the new. Now,
from 'mature years, as the memories of
those distant days crowd upon us, and as
the knowledge of the future unfolds more
and more; the meaning of that devotion
and sacrifice grows deeper. The signifi
cance of those small beginnings at Benl
cia grows larger in the perspective. In
those years of '9. '70 and '7L when two
loving hearts planned and laid the found
ations for this place, no one knew but
they "themselves the fullness of their
hopes. But now, we who were and are
ever at home here know in parti Now
itvis8S if we could enter into communion
with the thought of Dr. Mills as he used
often to go -that last "Winter. "I go to
prepare a place for you; I go to make
ready a place for the daughters of those
who bore the brunt and endured the priva
tions of pioneer life; I go to lay deep and
strong the foundations of a college for
the women of California; to establish upon
the shores of the Pacific a home of cul
ture and spiritual inspiration that the
daughters of this "Western America may
be as the polished corners of the temple;
that womanhood in the 20th century may
hear well its part."
To him, when he returned to the tran
sient home at Benlcia, each girl represent
ed something of the future for which he
was preparing. In memory
We see him as he moved.
How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise,
With whaf sublime repression of himself. -Aad.ln
what limit, and how tenderly;
Wearing the white newer of a blameless life.
"What glimpses of destiny must have
been his as the day approached for the de
parture; as the hope to establish here per
manently a colloge grew Into reality.
Students Start for Tlielr Xciv Home.
It Is nearly 31 years since one morning
In the Summer vacation of 1571. .when a
little company of 25 girls gathered to
gether In the old halls at Benlcia, ready
to start for the new home.
There had been several days of excite
ment, fqr the farewell of these girls meant
the farewell of the seminary. All the fa
miliar rooms were bare. The recreation
room, where so many bright, happy even
ing hours "had been spent; the reading
room, where each day -girls had sought
for home papers and some event from the
greut world; the main schoolroom and the
practiee-rooms; No. 7, down at the'end of
the long hall, into which the girls often
crowded after luncheon to sing a, few
songs "Antioch" was our favorite per
haps because It was so "full of "joy to the
world" I can hear even now Fanny
"Washington's voice singing bass, Adele
"Walbridge. Isabel Hopkins.. Addle Mills,
Fannie Rouse, Lizzie Task. Annlo Ald
rieh how these names crowd upon the
memory in thinking of the old song!
Many good-byes were said as the girls
went about in little groups to take a last
farewell of this room or that, or to go
once more down through the grape arbor
at the end of the garden, where the high
board fence stretched all around. There
was one girl from Oregon, who remembers
yet how fragrant and fresh and sweet the
rain seemed as it came softly down
through the broad grape leaves. To some
of those 25 girls saying farewell, the dear
old seminary with Its gable windows-, nar
rov stairways, queer nooks and corners,
had -for .several years been home. They
had no other; they were motherless. Some
were far from liomes over yonder in the
islands of the Pacific. All, though they
knew it not, were part of a blessed move
ment. A movement as ancient as history
anB yet as modern as hope; a movement
from the old to the new; from the con
fined, restricted, outgrown past to the
larger future. And yet, no such move
ment can or would wish to be independent
of the past.
For what 1b he present, after all, but a growth
out o-f the past.
The Infinite greatness of the past.
Patient, constant, persistent evolution
holding fast to the best of all ages, hand
ling it on down, gathering to Itself the
"best " of lhve present, aye. utilizing the
best of the future, even before It is with
in one's grasp, such a movement is eter
nal. ' ,
Pacific Coast Girls Gala.
Because Mary Lyon founded Mount Hol
yoke In 1S37. these girls waiting to be part
of the establishment of this college on
the Pacific Coast were' richer; because
iMary Atkins in 1S53 founded at Benlcia
the oldest Protestant school in California
those girls, as thoywent from the historic
building and the rich associations clus
tered about lt, to new soil, were irans
ferrlng something of, its power, were
transplanting something of the roots ot
its life. "Who can define how the spirit of
an Institution Infuses itself into tender
girlhood and expectant womanhood? "Who
can explain the subtle Influence of atmos
phere, character, sympathy and love?
These 25 girls carried away something of
It all To each one of the little company
was given some treasure too tender to be
packed "with the household goods. To one
a delicate vase, to another a hanging bas
Jcet, to two or three the canary birds; one
favored girl carried Fritz, a household
pet, a little white curly terrier, that lived
here many years, and I must mention the
old seminary cat that we couldn't leave
in the lonely bulldlngand the kittens.
These were put in a market basket and
cdvered over. The basket was heavy, but
faithful Mary Mayo, the house sorvant,
carried It all the way. At last we started.
leaving Michael alone "to close the doors
and bring away anything that was left.
Late in theiftcrnoon of the same day
ot lately building stood alone on the
oti'iv waiting. But few young vines
o. .3 --- c-trt rs wore about it;, the same
3C .t 1 reen sward was before it that
COLLEGE WOMEN
ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PBOFESSOR LUELLA, CLAY CARSON, OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, AT MILLS COLLEGE,. OAKLAND CAL.
you see today; there were no avenues, ,no
hedges, but the tiny clear streams went
rippling" by, fringed with alders of na
ture's planting, and groups of oaks stood
here" and there. So Ideal -a home for
thought and forming character. It waited
for the thousands of young women that
have come and are coming.
The llttlo company of girls tolling up
the dusty Toad from Alameda station in
the hot afternoon -sun were the vanguard
of the endless procession to follow. They
, were weary there is always someunng oi
regret in leaving me om uiey w&re ivut,
lng to see the new hope, asking "How far
Is it now?" "When, all at once, they
crossed the entrance! bridge and there It
was before them, so cool, so fresh, so
large and free. And It was theirs. And
they came on and took possession. Year
by year companies of girls have entered
this beautiful college home and have ta
ken possession. It is and ever shall be
theirs.
And those who conferred it upon us gave
more than decorations of nature, stately
buildings, books. Even added to these,
care of devoted teachers will not measure
their gifts. Groups of devoted teachers,
who, through these years, have quietly in
fused reverence, courage and all the sterl
ing virtues into the life of our "Western
commonwealths, how tenderly our mature
years recall their loving ministrations!
"We of the transmigration look about for
the dear familiar faces (and we recall Miss
Bushnell, Miss Foster. Miss "Wilson, Miss
Gass, Miss Cardlnell, Miss Tolman). Alas,
all are not here, but, like golden bonds
linking the past to the present, some re
main to cherish and conserve the spirit
and traditions of the young college.
Those who conferred upon us as the
richness of those provisions for our wel
fare gave a larger inheritance than is In
dicated In what remains here, we all
have taken away deeper conceptions of
character, higher ideals of womanhood,
loftier ambitions to do our work In the
world well.
One of these benefactors went ,before
he saw the full fruition of his. hopes; and
one who welcomed us on that first day
yot welcomes home again every girl who
has ever belonged to Mills Seminary or
Mills College, whether the visit be an
nual, or in 10 years, on. "20 years, or
even 30.
To her w.e come on this founders' day
in honor of all the donors of this institu
tion, and in the loving and reverent mem
ory of its special founders and munificent
benefactors. "We come with tributes of
affection in memory of him who, with
her, established here this recognition of
the power there Is in educated, cultured,
Christian womanhood. And we dedicate
ourselves anew to press on toward their
ideals, to hand down to new homes all
over this Coast something of the simplic
ity, nobleness, humility and strength of
that womanhood that has dwelt within
their hearts.
Xeed for Such Womnnhood.
There is a peculiar need all along this
Coast for such womanhood. In 1817, Bry
ant wanting to speak of some lonely place
where one would separate one's self from
humankind, said In Thanatopsls:
Lose theyself In tho continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
Save his own dashing:.
"When these lines were written Califor
nia and Washington were but names, and
the other four states of the Pacific Slope
were terra Incognita. Now, from the
southern borders of California to the ut
termost boundaries of Alaska, between
the Rocky Mountains and tho ocean, ev
erywhere, the' foundations for the greatest
civilisation of history are being laid. Ac
cording to the foundations, so shall the
structure be. Rome sat upon her seven
hills, facing the Mediterranean and ruled
tho world. These states rest upon more
than seven mountain chains facing the
"Western sea. From the ports of Puget
Sound, the Mediterranean of the North,
from the Columbia, draining a vast em
pire, the Golden Gate and its. protected
bay, will go forth argosies to all harbors
of the Pacific "The wealth ot Ormees
and pf Jud" will enter these ports. All
that is best and choicest In American
civilization will be represented along these
shores. The pioneer spirit of faith in
things not seen, endurance, organization,
the Involved and self-made strength of
the "West, the culture of the East all
these are here. Both history and philoso
phy declare that We are the heirs of all
'the ages and that out of our inheritance,
combined with better conditions than the
wbrlcThas ever known, shall come forth a
new earth.
It is nearly 20 years since Dr. Joslah
Strong said: "The Pacific West Is today
an infant, in each of those limbs shall
unite the strongth of many nations. Be
yond a peradventurc, tbe West, by virtue
of her preponderating propulsion and influ
ence, will determine our. National charac
ter and therefore destiny."
Now, tills Pacific Coast will need Pacific
Coast young women, educated In Pacific
Coast Institutions, reared in Pacific Coasl
conditions, embodying In themselves some
thing of the ideals of their forefathers and
foremothers, something of that power of
vision peculiarly Western, which ever
looks forward, which sees upon founda
tions yet unhewn tho structure full
reared. Such young women will forsee
conditions and will prepare themselves,
their sons and daughters, to meet them.
I speak not of higher education In gen
oral. If the entire Coast shall follow the
large plans of California, it will Indeed
be the home of culture and power.
Aid of Women to Education.
It is significant in testifying to the In
fluence of woman in building up the civil
ization of these sea-coast states that Mrs.
Stanford and Mrs. Hearst have had so
large a part in the foundation of two
great co-educational institutions, and Mrs.
Mills has established the first woman's
college. I cannot forbear to speak also
of Miss Mary B. Rodney, of St. Hel
en's Hall, in Portland, Or. A noble woman
of sweet and lofty soul! She gave years
of devotion that the women of our state
might have the blessings of culture, and
every community of Oregon is better be
cause she lived.
"To do nothing unworthy of the honor
able name she bore: to endeavor in Chris
tian faith, by usefulness and good deeds,
to merit, first, God's favor, and, second,
the respect of worthy men and women,
were her alms in a lifetime of service."
The marvelous growth of higher educa
tion for women in the last CO years will
mean inestimable value for the develop
ment of this Coast. The movement began
In our country, and all that has been done
in America and Europe i so much gained
as a foundation for the superstructure to
be built on these shores.
In 1861 there was hardly a beginning in
this country for coliego education of wom
en, and not until 1869 were women ad
mitted in a woman's -college at Cambridge,
England. Not until more than two cen
turies after Harvard was founded did
Vassar, our first woman's college, open
its doors, stating its intention "to found
and equip an institution which should ac
complish for young women what our col
leges are accomplishing for young men."
The First Female Seminary.
Humble beginnings are sometimes of
more importance than the crowning vic
tory. In 1821 the first female seminary in
this country wag established at ,Trby,
N. Y., by Mrs. Emma Willard. In 1833
co-education In colleges, and at the same
1 time college education of women began
in UDerun tjonegiaie institute: in 1837
Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Semi
nary, and probably no educational insti
tution in our land has had greator Influ
ence In promoting higher education for
women, iKwas most fitting that one of
its first honorary degrees after it became
Mount Holyoke .College should have been
conferred upon our own dear Mrs. Mills.
"We feel honored that she wears the doc
tor's'cap and gown today.
In 1K3 Antioch College, also in Ohio, was
opened to both men and women. Its first
president was Horace Mann, who always
advocated :o-educdtlon. In 1870. about 32
years ago, Michigan University admitted
.women, and they were for the first time
in America allowed to partake of instruc
tion of true college grade. I am indebted'
for these facts to a recent article by Miss
Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr. All the
way from 1S50 to 1S97 the state universi
ties were opened to women, until now
"Women In Universities,
In state universities and other co-educational
colleges there were in 1S9S, 1G.2S4
women, and they have increased more
rapidly in separate colleges for women
than in co-educational colleges. Between
1SS0 and 1S9S women undergraduate stu
dents in the country increased to 11L8
per cent. According to 'the last educa
tional report there were in 1S99 in the 337
co-educational colleges, 11 independent
women's colleges and the few affiliated
colleges a total of 21.S00 women In the
undergraduate courses, forming about 27.4
per cent or about one-fourth of all col
lege students. Add to these undergrad
uates women In professional and technical
schools, and there were In 1S99, 37,505
Seven hundred and nineteen women In the
United States received the A. B. degree
in 1S93 and 1894 nearly twice as many
as In 1S91 and 1S92. In.-June, 1S&9, there
were & total of 14.S24 women holding
bachelor's degrees, leaving out graduates
WHENCE
CAME THE
ROSE TO
JOHN MINTO TELLS OF FINDING A BUSH
MARION COUNTY, PlnTED BY
REV. JASON LEE
Being asked to say In the columns of The Oregonlan what I know of
the Mission rose, and how it came by its name, I desire to say I havo
no knowledge of its history beyond finding the bush near some "six or
eight peach trees, and also ncai a bed of rhubarb, or pieplant, in what
had been the' garden first formed by Rev. Jason Lee and nephew, Daniel
Lee, In 1S34-33. All the fences of fields and garden had been washed off
by the fioQd of -the Willamette In December, 1844, which had left Its marks
four to 30 Inches up on wlndow frames on the Inside. I purchased the
property late In August, 1845." from Mr. Davld Carter, who was a volun
teer assistant of the mission, and purchased the claim from Rev. George
Gary, the agent of the Mission Board, but had nevermsed the building or
garden subsequent to the flood. All sppearances indicated that the .rose
bush and the rhubarb had been planted at the same time, nine or ten
years before, as the trees were certainly too old to move without great
and special care. I took up carefully the rose bush and pieplant and
divided both with Mrs.. Carter, 'at the new home, making It mine by ar
rangement with Mr, Carter till forming a home of my own. Then I
moved my part of the rose bush and rhubarb to my chosen garden
spot, and from both divided with neighbors as they settled around lis.
It thus became natural for me to speak of it as the Old Mission rose, as
I had got It from what was now spoken cf, even by missionaries them
selves, as the Old Mission farm. I have talked with P. W. Gillette, who
in 1847 Introduced a considerable collection of ornamental plants and
flowers. He thinks It may have come, to "Vancouver from some of the
old missions In California, and Its name of Mission Rose come with it
or be given to It thatway. That may be so. I never was in the Van
couver garden, and never saw a flowering plant in any garden until Mr.
J. L. Parrish made his home at Salem. Starting a little nursery In tho
early '50s, T sent slips of the rose to Jacksonville south and Olympla
north, under the name of the Old Mission rose.
Salem, Or. J. MINTO.
of minor colleges. "Tbisnumber," says
Miss Thomas, "shows a larger body of
educated women than Is to be found in any
other country in the world." Three years
ago there were about.22,000 undergraduates
and about 15.000 holding degrees. This re
markable growth of college women has
come In less than a third of a century.
The barriers to woman's higher education
are removed, and now elght-terrfhs of the
higher Institutions In the United States
are open to them.
What is the significance of all these
facts to the women of the Pacific States?
Three years ago there were In Washing
ton, Oregon and California working along
college, technical and professional lines
of thought 2093 women. It Is no doubt
safe, to estimate that there are now some
thing over 3000 women so working, and It
is surely no exaggeration to say that In
10' years there will be about 8000 college
women registered in these states; some
as undergraduates forming habits, con
victions and character under the influ
ence of libraries, art, skilled and devoted
teachers, and the best rosults of the ex
perience of the age; some few as gradu
ates In original" research, enlarging the
bounds of human knowledge, and enrich
ing the life of the race; some in technical
schools preparing to add delicacy and
beauty to manufactured products that will
go eastward In trains and westward In
ships in competition with the best tnat
the world can produce. Medicine, law,
theologv, literature, the making of text
books. Journalism, each of these fields
will invito the few women who know
themselves possessed of peculiar power.
Suffering of any kind In times of war In
hospitals andhomes will always appeal to
women. There are unexplored fields in
pathology, problems yet unsolved that
have to do not only with the alleviation
of suffering, but with the prevention of
disease and misery. Basteur and Koch,
In the Old World, have wrestled with
problems for human welfare.
Stern new with empires in their brains.
Grown stronc through shifts and wants and
pains; w
Men skilled by freedom and by great events.
To pitch new states as Old-World men pitch
tents.
It would seem that this new West would
also havo Its contributions to make for
human health. Pioneer women, "mothers-
of a mighty race," and men "grown
strong through shifts and wants and
pains," have reared sons and daughters
who Inherit power of mind, depth of
heart, faith In the unknown 'sufficient to
probe into the secrets of human suffering
and to eradicate causes. Who knows but
that as ideas of human liberty -go from
our institutions to the Orient, beside them
will go other ideas of human liberty hu
man liberty that means freedom from the
tyranny of disease, and that these ideas
sv ill be discovered and promulgated by the
patient investigations and tender sympa-thles-of
some few women nurtured in' the
West, bred in our colleges, made skillful
In our laboratories? It has been long
admitted that the keen Intuition and ten
der touch of woman fit her to be a trained
nurse, but it is the patient, conquering,
scientific spirit of research that I am
predlotlng. And that spirit applied wher
ever human welfare Is calljng for larger
freedom. It may be applied to interpret
the abstract principles of law and justice;
to interpret the Scriptures and reveal
the meaning of religion. Mora and more
not the emotions only, but the Intellect
also must be satisfied, and woman must
train her logical powers es well as tho
heart.
Fields for "Women.
It were vain to try to Indicate Western
fields waiting for the genius and training
of women. Literature is a field hardly yet
entered. To be sure, all the world-epics
have proceeded from the mind of man
and let us concede because we must
perhaps the last great epic on the migra
tion of civilization across a continent will
bo written by some Homer or Dante or
Milton. No great dramas hayo been pro
duced by women, and perhaps the trag
dts of pioneer life must await one .worthy
to be named with EHabethans. But lyric
poetry and exquisite prose theso will
surely waken at her touch; story and song
may be hers by common consent. It re
mains to know what may be hers by con
sent of college training. Journalism, one
of tha chief fields for ability and influence
In moucrn life, will call upon the post
graduate woman. It will rely upon "her
keen Intelligence and powers of accurate
observation In minute details to report the
phases of life that make up dally news
and the background of history. It will call
upon her intelligence In special realms of
the thought and action to Interpret the
tendencies of today and to help prepare
for the certainties of' tomorrow.
But above all, and deeper than all these
000 women who will be working 10 years
from now, added to the 200b of three years
ago, and all others In the Interim, say
a total of 15.000. more significant than
nil else, these womtn will be better pre
pared for tnelf duties as women, daugh
ters, sisters, wives and mothers, in the
homes that are inseparable from the de
velopment of higher civilization.
College ideas are not destructive, but
constructive; not away from the home
but toward the establishment of the home,
the Tearing of children, the training of
young through body, mind, heartland soul
so that with regard to the .achievements:
and experience of the past tnere snau De
conservation, perpetuity, evolution. The
college is conservative; It wishes to hbid
fast to the best of all the ages and to
hand down the best with an Increment.
"What difference If the college be for men
or for women or co-cducatlonal? The ulti
mate and fundamental ideal Is the same;
and that ideal will ever find Its best
mpiflum of expression and Its best .possi
bility for development, influence ana.
power in the home.
Traits of College Women.
.Professor Munsterberg,- In his chapter
In "American Traits" on the college wo
man, lays down as the two fundamental
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FIRST CULTIVATED
OREGON
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principles of German conviction: First,
"that it must remain the central function
of the woman to bo wife and mother;"
second, "that public life and culture. In
cluding politics, public morality, science,
art, higher education, Industry, com
merce, law, literature, the newspaper and
the church, are produced, formed and
stamped by men." .AH .the higher educa
tional Ideals In Germany are In harmony
with these principles. The American sys
tem of college education for men and
women, he thinks, is injurious to our Na
tional organism and he gives as one rea
son because it antagonizes family life,
and thus diminishes the chances for the
future bearers of the National civiliza
tion. But he does not suggest that we
give over what ho calls "the splendid col
lege life of American girls." Rather, he
urges "hat no one can suggest that wo
man's education In this country ought to
take any steps backward." Professor
Munsterberg concludes as Tennyson, with
the thought, "the woman's question is
the man's question." Tennyson, with the
voice of a prophet, Vent further:
And so these twain
Sit side by side, full-summed In all their
powers, .
Self-reverent each and reverencing' each.
Then reign the world's great bridals chaste and
calm;
Then springs the crowning race of human
kind. For the laet half of the 19th century
the American men of the poorer classes,
and they alone In the civilized world,
have had mothers as well educated as
their fathers In our co-educatlonal, pri
mary and secondary high schools, which
do not exist in any other country in tho
world; and to this, more than to any
other factor, is due. It seems tosme, the
phenomenal enterprlso and success in
commerce of the American people. In
the 20th century the mothers of our
wealthy, professional and middle classes
will be as well educated as the fathers,
and we may then expect allke success in
spiritual and intellectual things.
Century at whose wide-flung door we stand;
Century of the marriage of continents. Islands'
of the sea, climates and oceans.
And no region of the earth will take
larger part in this century than this strip
facing the Pacific, this great domain Join
ing the Occident and the Orient.
It is no mere doge of Venice wedding
the Adriatic:
Desponsamus te, mare. In slgnum veri, perpetul
que domlnl.
Here on these Western shores Is ap
proaching a greater ceremonial; a cere
monial celebrating the union of races la.
common bonds under true and perpetual
dominion of free forms of government, -of
equity and Justice between nation and
nation, of spiritual enlightenment. Poets
have predicted It. Facts seem to war
rant expectation of that majestic cere
monial day. And college women will be
there In caps and gowns.
Has Met All Teats.
Laws take time to grow. A hypothesis
must meet all tests before It can claim
immortality. The cause of woman's- col
lege and professional education has been
for 0 years meeting tests. Thus far It
has failed before none. It has Justified
f itself before the test for physical health.
uno old argument that the physical na
ture of woman and strenuous Intellec
tual work are Inconsistent Is outlived.,
There Is no evidence to show that col
lege education works anything but phys
ical good to the college woman, indeed,
recent Investigations both In England and
I America, comparing the health and
strength of women who have mastered
higher mathematics, endured the stress
of economical and financial problems, met
the test of science and the classics with
the health and strength of non-college
women, proves that college women are
superior in physique. Records in- co
educational Institutions show as few
withdrawals of women as of men on ac
count of Illness.
The old Greek concoptlon of Plato was
that In the ideal republic both youngroen
and women should be physically strong.
The new Ideal republic destined to grow
on these shores how does It depend for
its reality upon her fair, young hands;
her strong, free step; heart with even
beat! The morning sun lighting the tops
of our Eastern mountalns-from the South
ern Sierras, on beyond the snowy Cas
cades to the Olympics, then flooding the
foothills and great valleys and lucent
sands, with the life-giving warmth of day,
does not more surely week by week pro
mote the growing power of men and their
works than does the morning smile of
sweet, strong womanhood that means
health, courage and hope. The woman's
College stands for such womanhood. The
four quiet years with their hours of med
itation, sweet converse with the best
thought, calm sleep, regular toll, lofty
plans send forth every early Summer com
panies of sweet girl graduates who will
not shrink when asked to share tho re
sponsibility and glory of cmplre-bulldlng.
TeHt of Scholarship.
The second test, scholarship, has been
met and woman's desire for abstract
knowledge has justified Itself- A few
weeks ago Dr. James, president-elect of
Northwestern University, said: "The no
tion that women are Incapable of doing
college work, so commonly urged a gen
eration ago, has completely disappeared."
In a recent discussion concerning grant
ing degrees to women at Cambridge, It
"was freely admitted that women's minds
are "splendid for examination purposes."
Now, there are two kinds of scholarship
scholarship that gives knowledge and
scholarship that gives power. To be sure,
the second is dependent upon the first;
power Is based upon knowledge, but
knowledge does not always lead to power.
Scholarship that Is not only "splendid for
examination purposes"," theoretical, but
Is also applicable as a means of solving
problems that belong to the realities of
everyday life this Is the scholarship that
college women must possess. Such schol
arship Is the outcome of discipline, com
bined with knowledge. True education
must concern itself with the moral nature
as well as the intellectual In order to se
cure the best result; In order that purely
lntellectual acquirement may be utilized
to its utmost; in order that supreme moral
character may bo attained. Says Presi
dent Hadley: "Any attempt to make In
formation take the place of discipline Is a
menace to our National life for a genera
tion to come. As a preparation for tho
school of National politics, 10 hours of
training In civics are not the Equivalent
of ono minute of training In order and
obedience." Says Professor Munsterberg,
in his essay on "American Democracy":
"A. lack of reverence pervades the whole
community, and controls the family, the
school, the public life. The pert American
boy, who does Just what he pleases, gets
at the same time the worst possible train
ing for the duties of life. He will learn
too late that It Is a great thing to com
mand, but a greater thing to obey, ind
that no one can sign early enough the
declaration of dependence."
Thomas Jefferson wrote once and for all
our declaration of civil Independence; Em
erson, in ljls "American Scholar," an
nounces .our declaration of Intellectual In
dependence. The women of America, as
mothers, teachers and counselors, must
over and over, in every home, In school-'
rooms, draft declarations of independence
and wrlto them in the hearts of the boys
and girls, young men and maidens of our
beloved country. Dependence upon law,
upon abstract right and Justice, tipon the
love and guidance and, commands of the
Supreme Rulef.
The Most Reasonable Woman.
But It is said, and no doubt with fair
ness, that the mind of woman naturally
has a tendency to hasty generalization,
mixing of principles-, undervaluation of
the absent, readiness to yield to emotions,
Illogical Impulses, lack of meditation, de
liberation and constant obedience to ab
stract law. Whatever may be said In
general of the Illogical impulse of women,
the college woman Is the most reasonable
and the most conservative. And as surely
as It Is recognized that habitual obedience
to highest and simplest law Is the founda
tion and safety of a democracy, so surely
must the college deepen woman'3 concep
tion of law and responsibility and enlarge
her powers as administrator of law. Says
Miss Hazard, president of Wellesley,
"When a woman recognizes the Inevita
bility of consequence following upon ac
tion, the moral certainty of law, when she
will put herself voluntarily under the
reign of law and learn the true lesson of
obedience, then she is in a condition to
profit by any and every experiment of
-Jne." Obedience Implies absolute unselfish
ness. Blind obedience Is better than no
obedience, but how Infinitely better Is
obedience sanctioned by full knowledge
and all the faculties of mind and heart and
fiOUl.
To inculcate in the minds of women un
derstanding of law, accordance with it,
reverence for the abstract, power to en
force the concrete, power to preserve the
relation of proposed action to eternal law.
Inspiration to. ally counsel and Influence
with the edict of the kingdom of heaven,
here Is the chiefest glory of college edu
cation for women.
Today we hear another test: Will higher
training unfit American women for the
home? All that has been met indicates
tho answer to this query. A thousand
times. No! How can acquaintance, with
the best in life and history lead women or
men away from the home? How can In
spiration from the great and gond direct
her or him toward Isolation? How can
knowledge of and sympathy with the
chief promoters of civilization sacrifice
and altruism lead to a life for self? or
how can the fragrance and flower of cul
ture replace human love and co-operation?
All Is Evolution.
There have yet been not two generations
of college women in the. history of the
world. On our own Pacific Coast our col
leges are working out policies. Nothing Is
fixed; all Is evolution. There Is a fitting
and adaptation of new college Ideals to
formative conditions. In tho midst of
these conditions, commercialism, material
Ism holds a large part, and It is for the
college to stand for culture, to hold aloft
the truth that the best ot life is notma
terlal, is not money-getting. True happi
ness does not consist In lands and ships.
The cortege must hold aloft the torch of
culture blazing with white light
The women of our colleges, conserva
tives by Inheritance, theirs it Is "to learn
and propagate the best that is known and
thought In the world." Theirs it is "to get
wisdom rather than gold, and 'to get un
derstanding rather to be chosen than sil
ver." Advanced education on these
shores means added to tho natural en
dowments of our women wisdom,
strength, patience, self-control, spiritual
ity, a large faith and the hope that comes
from the possession of lofty Ideals, and
they who cherish .right idea'ls are cease
lessly rising out of themselves toward
.higher worlds. Whatever gain the college
comers upon the women of Washington,
Oregon and California, means stability,
culture. righteousness and future power
for these commonwealths.
A Dog's Skull Trephined.
New York World.
The happiest woman in "The Chaper
ons" company 'at the New York Theater
Is. Trixle Frlganza. Just' before the cur
tain was rung up Thursday she received
a telephone message from Dr. William.
C. Miller. of tho American Veterinary
Hospitals saying thqt an operation per
formed on Pony, her black and tan toy
terrier, had been successful and that the
dog would probably live.
Thursday afternoon Miss Frlganza and
her sister Bessie took the dog out for an
airing. They were returning home when
a big mastiff set upon the little dor,
which weighed Just 16 ounces, biting It In
the head and crushing Its skull.
Picking up the mite in her arms, Miss
Frlganza hurried to the hospital. Dr.
Miller decided that the only chance of
saving the dog's life was to trephine the
skull. He performed the operation, re
moving several fragments of bone and
substituting a silver plate as largo as a
dime.
Thousands of people praise ' the medici
nal merits of Hood's Sarsaparilla to their
friends.
BAN PUT ON OSCULATION
RAILWAY OFEICLVL OHDEIIS KISS
ING IX STATION 'STOPPED.
Basiling; Demonstrations
Delay the
Fast Trains As Usnal,
Women Are at Fault.
the
All trainmen, gatemen and ticket ex
aminers will gjtop all persons front ex
changing kisses upon the arrival and
departure of trains in this station. This
This order must be rigidly enforced.
.The above sign Is what started the trou
ble at thePennsylvania Railway station In
Jersey City, N. J.
It was posted by P. P. A. Abercromble,
Eastern superintendent of the Pennsylva
nia lines, and all trainmen, gatemen and
ticket examiners noV keep a keen look
out for symptoms or osculation, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
If an affectionate couple, holding hands,
nears a train a man watches very closely.
If there is a twitching of the muscles of
the mbuth that would Indicate a pucker
ing of the lips, the watchful employe runs
forward and parts the people before the
pent-up bliss finds vent.
"If you want to kiss you will please step
outside of the station," Is the way the
kiss-detector puts it when he pulla tho
osculators apart. '
The move was started In order to pre
vent delay of trains. Officials complain
that crowds gather at the trains and block
the way with their demonstrations of af
fection. For instance, a young women
who Is going away for the Summer comes
down to the train with about a dozen of
her sweetest and dearest young woman
companions.
They gather about her like bees around
a buckwheat patch an.d begin to say good
bye just before the conductor calls
"Aboard!" - .
Every ono of the young women must
take a dab at her lip. The conductor
dare not pull out without the fair passen
ger and the result Is that the train leaves
a second late, and In these times of fast
trains a second Is a good deal to lose.
"Women Are the "Worst Offenders.
Trainmen aver that women are the worst
offenders In this line, as the men usually
do their bussing behind closed doors or
before they arrive at the station. Lovers
usually get their parting osculatory dem
onstrations over before they get to the
tram, and the farewell there is usually a
very tame affair. Husbands and wives
often Indulge In little kissing matches, but
they more frequently do the Job up at
home.
But a crowd of women Insist on doing
the act up brown. They begin by saying
good-bye about 10 times each all around.
They will wait until the very last minute
to get In the kisses, and as the train pulls
out there will follow In the wake a chorus
of:
"Be good to yourself."
"Be sure and write as soon as you get
there."
'Til take good care of your 'bird while
you are gone."
"Be sure and send me the pattern of
that new'shirtwaist."
"Good-bye, good-bye, good-"bye, good
bye!" J
And all this takes up times. It also
takes up space. Trainmen are kept wait
ing. Luggage-smashers are balked In their
efforts to get around. And the osculation,
although considered very fine by those
participating, is looked upon with misgiv
ings by weak-stomached individuals look
ing on.
Tho railway that will get popular at
once with the women and the young and
lovelorn couples will be Uje1 one that will
set apart rooms in Its stations for kiss
ing. The rooms may be In the depots and
on the door have signs reading:
-...
: OSCULATORT DEPARTilKNT. :
Here the decorations might be In keep
ing with the occupation: The walls could
be papered with flying cuplds and the
room fitted with cozy corners and other
darkening effects.' Gas turned low might
be provided to aid matters.
For the convenience of large parties
stands might he erected where the fair
kissee could stand and receive the caress
es from the crowd. Utilitarian methods
might be Introduced by the businesslike
railway.
Rooms might be set apart with little
booths In them not unlike lockers In a
gymnasium. These could be numbered
and the farewellers could purchase tick
ets entitling them to Ave minutes In the
bussing booths. By this method privacy
may be secured.
May Bass in Chicago.
The amatory caress, of the lips haB fig
ured in the courts In Chlcagoand justices
have passed upon the matter. It seems to
be the consensus of opinion here that a.
man may kiss his wife, his sweetheart or
his mother-in-law in the railway station,
in a restaurant or on the street If he so
desires, and no blue-coated minion of the
law dare Interfere.
Tho blue laws of Connecticut forbade a
man to kiss his wife on Sunday, but in
Chicago there Is no restriction placed up
on the delightful occupation. A young
man who had kissed a young woman In
Jackson Park right in broad daylight was
hauled Into court on the charge of disor
derly conduct The young woman in the
case did not appear to prosecute. The
Judge looked around and, finding the
young woman absent, thundered:
"Where is the young woman? If this
young man Is guilty the young woman Is
also. It takes two to kiss as well aa to
mako a bargain."
And the young man wag allowed to go
SUMMER
THE BREAKERS
New, commodious and elegantly furnished. The largest and finest seaside re
sort in the Northwest. Electric lights, hot and cold salt-water baths In the hotel;
golf, tennis, bowling, billiards,, pool, ping pong, boating and fishing. Unsurpassed
view of ocean from dining-room, parlor and guests' rooms; beautiful surroundings.
For rates or reservations, write or telephone to
THE BREAKERS, Long Beach, Wash.
Get tickets and check baggage to BREAKERS STATION.
Cloud Cap Enn
The chief mountain resort In Oregon.
Situated 7000 feet above sea level, on the
North slope of Mount Hood. Dally
stages from Hood River, via the Transfer
& Livery Co. Through tickets to the Inn
can be purchased at O. R. & N. or Co
lumbia River steamer ticket offices.
For rates, etc., address Mrs. S. Lan
gllle, Hood River.
THE HACKNEY COTTAGE
SEAV1EW, WASH.
Now open for season 1902. On next block
from railroad station. Excellent table
board, with beautiful surroundings. Fine
surf-bathing. No more attractive place
on beach than the Hackney Cottage.
MRS. JAMES HACKNEY
P. O. Uwaco. Wash.
G. G. KEE, SEASIDE
RESTATJRAXTr-The best bill of faro at any
ocean resort.
GROCERY A large, fresh, clean stock at rea
sonable prices. Tou can buy all your sup
plies here, as you need them.
BAKERY Fresh bread, cakes and pies always
on hand.
Orders nlled and delivered dally.
LONG BEACH. WASH.
M. C. MACE
Dealer In Oysters. Clams,' Crabs and all
kinds of fish. Fresh Vegetables and Fruit.
Onen Julr 3. c
free. It seems that the girl made no out
cry. If shehad screamed and Jerked back,
then there might have beon excuse for
the policeman to lnterf ere," but tho evi
dence was that she sort of leaned over
toward the kisser and only murmured
softly: "Yum, yum."
A man was arrested In South Chicago
for kissing his wife near the Madison
Park station of the Illinois Central. The
wife was brought along also and Justice
Callahan looked Into the merits of the
case.
"My dear madam," said the Judge
suavely, for she was a very winsome littlo
woman, "do you object to having your
husband press his lips to your own In a
public place?" - 0
"Well, I should remark I didn't," rimo
back the reply with vim, vigor and alac
rity. "The prlsonersare discharged," said the
Judge, and they went away rejoicing.
At all the railway station the employes
are nauseated by osculatory demonstra
tions. About the most fearful ordealslof
this sort are when a lot of foreigners
come down to the train to see one t their
number away on the train. Not longrslnca
a foreign fellow packed his telescope and
bundle and started across- the jcountry to
get a boat to sunny Italy.
A dozen of his intimate friends came
down to the train. Just before the train
pulled out there was a regular kissing bee.
Every ear-ringed fellow gave th depart
ing Italian a rousing smack. -
"UgrU" remarked one of the gatemen,
as he turned his back. "Ifeel seasick."
HnBerlnsr Also Under Ban.
New Jersey seems to be just now the
center of a movement to elminate botn
hugging and kissing. Since the outbreak
against osculation at Jersey City news
has emanated from Elizabeth, N. J of a
crusade against the hug, which is also
entitled the embrace and the clasp.
It was the Y. M. C. A. that started the
trouble down there. The organization has
been in the habit of holding an annual
moogllght excursion and in Che years gone
by hugging had been one of the chief
amusements, as well as the prime delight
of the occasions.
Warning was Issued from the associa
tion that all arms must be kept strictly
down at the sides. No encircling of slim
waists was to be allowed. In order to
enforce this edict 20 men were appointed
to police the boats and slap any naughty
arms that did not obey the order.
The result was that the moonlight ex
cursion was a flat failure. The young
women sent In word that they had pre
vious engagements. The young men
joined the young women In "previous en
gagements" and philandering -Rent on just
the same.
Prominent Chicago legal lights a or that
orders .against kissing and hugging are
without legal value. They assert that if
a man wants to sip the nectar from the
lips of his wife he may do so, so long as
she does not object, be It In a railway
station, on the street or In a public park,
any one who interferes with the transac
tion being guilty of assault.
Gearhart. Parle.
Attorney Celars and family, of Port
land, were the "first pebbles on the
beach" this season.
Sunset cottage, owned by Dr. A. Kinney,
Is occupied by his son, Alfred, and wife
and Gus Kinney, of Astoria.
Italia cottage has been rented for the
season by Walter R. Sebree and family,
of Caldwell, Idaho. Mr. Sebree Is cashier
of the First National Bank of that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Warfleld and daughters,
Professor George Warfleld, of Willamette
University, and Misses Anna and Jennie
Nolan, of Astoria, are new arrivals here.
Mrs. E. M. Bergen and family are com
fortably settled in their cottage for the
Summer. Mrs. fiergen's sister, Mrs.
Featherstone, of Spokane, will stfend a
couple of months with her.
Ellalne cottage, owned by the Misses
Rumelln, of Portland, was occupied dur
ing the month by the Misses Ella Rume
lln, Florence Robson and Mellie Strow
brldge, with Mrs. Walter F Edwards as
chaperon. t
Bathing Ib being greatly enjoyed, and
during a fow days this 'week the water
was exceptionally fine. Boating, croquet,
fishing and clam-digging have been special
attractions. The latest novelty was a bar
becue on the beach. In connection with a
bonfire.
The Y.W. C. A. cottage Is opened and
Mrs. HUI will look after the wants of the
young ladles. Through the kindness of
Marshall Kinney, this home was deeded
to the Y. W. C. A. In memory of his wife.
There Is hardly a woman In the North
west so well known in temperance work
as was Mrs. Narcissus White Kinney.
The following persons visited tho park
during the month of June: Dr. Gus Kinney-
and wife, of Astoria; E. M. Bergen,
G. B. Cellars, W. H. Breharell, Mr. and
Mrs. Duff, Clinton Reed, Gedrge Shep
herd, Miss Pauline Rumelln, Miss HIckey,
Miss Marguerite HIckey. Walter F. Ed
wards. J. W. Holmes, E. 'R. McFarland
and A. M. Conipton. of Portland; Miss
Mabel Van Buren and Mrs. Hansbrough,
of Roseburg, and Mrs. W. S. Kinney and
Dr. Alfred Kinney, of Astoria.
Sa-ivtlast a Menace to Fisheries.
San Franciscoochronlcle.
Parties that have arrived in Redding
from the McCloud River say that quan
tities of sawdust have begun to come
down the river and Is now noticeable aa
far down as the United States fish hatch
ery at Baird. The sawdust comes from
the big saw mills on the tributaries of
thje McCloud. into which stream the stuff
Is dumped. The danger to the fishing in
dustry Is great; in fact, if something Is
not done to stop the dumping of dust Into
tho streams, fishing and hatching will
havo to be stopped. The authorities at
the Balrd hatchery will Investigate the
matter at onco and take some official ac
tion. RESORTS.
ineral Springs
A magnificent health resort In the heart
of the Cascade Mountains, for rest, health
and pleasure, scenery and climate. Chem
ical analysis proves It to be the best min
eral water In the state for rheumatism
kidney, liver and stomach trouble, stands
unsurpassed. Hot and cold soda batns.
Best of accommodations for transient and
steadv boarders. Ideal camping grounds.
Kept clean. Terms. ?1.0O and upward per
day. Camping privileges, 50 cents per
week for adults. Take S. P. R. R. to
Lebanon and comfortable conveyance; SO
miles to springs. Address G. M. GEIS
ENDORFER, Cascadia. Linn County, Or.
THE NEWTON
LONG IlEACII,
Open for the season of 1002. Every home com
fort. An excellent table for families desiring
pleasant, homelike entertainment for the Sum
mer. No more attractive place than THE
NEWTON can be found. OUR OWN GAR
DEN. FRESH VEGETABLES. AND MILK
FROM OUR OWN COWS. .
MRS. M. E. DICK. Proprietor.
THE BRITT
LONG BEACH
Is completed. Situated half-bloclc north of
depot. Best meala on the beach.