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plead poverty as an excuse for starving our sons and daughters.

The manager in one of our colleges was heard to say not long since, in answer to a protest from some of the students about the very meagre fare: "I feed you as well as I can afford to for the small price you pay."

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respectable pieces of meat, butter, potatoes, vegetables and other viands, to be daintily re-dished, and served up for the next meal.

We can readily imagine how the knowledge of all this must affect the appetites of even the most hungry guests subjected to such impositions.

I still remember my own

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experiences at Emma Willard's celebrated seminary at Troy, New York. After three years in that institution I suffered with dyspepsia for months, and have never been able since to look with satisfaction at corned beef, liver or bread pudding.

Now the time has arrived for a general

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protest against such outrages from all parents.

We must show new honor to the culinary department, build mor convenient and spacious kitchens, with more elaborate cooking apparatus and utensils; we must have choice domestic libraries on the art of cooking, and training schools for teachers of domestic science, who will give us a body

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of well-educated, moral, conscientious and scientific cooks.

One of our great needs at the present hour is to exalt and dignify this domestic department, that we may have far more thorough, conscientious managers than we have ever yet possessed.

Would that the great philanthropist, Cecil Rhodes,

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I am rejoiced to find that one millionaire has at last given some thought to the subject of dietetics. Cecil Rhodes, in his late will, left a bequest of fifty thousand dollars for the improvement of the high table, for resident Fellows and tutors, at Oriel College, Oxford.

May other right men follow his example, and extend this charity to all classes of students

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As you asked me to let you read it, I sent it to you

Have you got it, or is it in the waste-basket, with my four important resolutions? I send you my tribute to Susan - on her birthday - if you have room in your columns, please publish

Yours

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Per Sec

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following questions?

I - How long will they remain in this country?

II. Will they come to New York? How many of them are there, and what are their names?

If you will answer these questions I will be much obliged to you with kind regards

Elizabeth Cady Stanton per sec

Basingstoke,

June 24.

Dear Mother;

Just two week ago today was Helen's last day with us here. We knew she was ill, but all thought there were weeks if not months before her, and I felt she would recover. It was not till Thursday morning about 6.30 that we saw a change in her. In an hour the little spirit had slipped away. I had never seen any on [one] die before, and in her case there was nothing but a sweet sliding away. There

sent were tied to the the wheels, making it look like a chariot of flowers. Round the coffin were great branches of white laburnum, and on the tops were lovely copper-coloured roses and quantities of maidenhair fern. Nora & Dolly in white sat at the foot of the perambula, Tor, and Theodore & Harry & I, & the rest of the children were in the green-house too. The clergyman from London, Mr. Farrington, an American, read some beautiful poems, Esther Bright played on the violin, and a friend, who is a concert singer & who knew & loved Helen, sang exquisitely.

After one pretty service, Alice & the nurse took Helen in an open carriage with the beautiful June sun