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girl and would like to be with me at Stanford. She does not wish me to come home to her because that I should graduate from Stanford is her one ambition. So I suggested to her that we apply for the position of matron of Roble for her, because our financial affairs would not permit her to come otherwise.
Now, Mrs. Stanford, I would not have the audacity to apply for the position for my mother if she were not thoroughly capable of filling it. I remember you said, - that you wanted a woman somewhat along in life, who would be a mother to the girls, guide them, advise them, caution them, and look to them with a mother's interest. My mother has been a good mother to me, and I can't help feeling certain she would be a good mother to the girls with whom my lot has been cast for some years, and that she would have at heart the interests of the Hall I look upon as about the best home I ever had, or any girl could have. My mother is forty-seven years old, a woman very domestic by nature; she would be happy with a hundred girls in one big family. At the same time the years she spent in managing the Ballard Sanitatium, which came to her at her own mother's death, and is now closed because a bigger one was put up by capitalists and spoiled the little business, gave her an experience in administration of a large establishment which will be of value to her if she assumes the matronship of Roble. To be sure there were only about thirty rooms in that Sanitarium, but thirty rooms full of sick people, together with their nurses and servants, developes a skill that could easily oversee seventy one rooms and a hundred merry girls.