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thereto, but never under any circum- 

 stances is such fund to be used waste- 

 fully or extravagantly or under such 

 circumstances as to encourage idle or 

 luxurious living. This property repre- 

 sents the savings of a lifetime of indus- 

 try, economy, and self-denial, and I wish 

 it to be used wisely and made to count 

 for individual and race betterment.*** 

 "As soon as my son is old enough for 

 college, I desire that he be provided 

 with the sum of $1200.00 per annum for 

 his use during his college course, to 

 meet his necessary expenses and to 

 enable him to pursue his studies, but 

 not to enable him to indulge in extrava- 

 gancies or luxuries, should he happen 

 to be so inclined. I hope that my son 

 will marry early, say not later than the 

 age of twenty-five, and trust that he 

 will marry advisedly and know that his 

 chosen mate comes from a family in 

 which useful and capable men and 

 women predominate. To assist and 

 encourage him in his chosen pursuit or 

 profession, I direct my trustee to pay 

 to him at the time of his marriage the 

 sum of five thousand dollars. I also 

 direct that for each and every child 

 born to him, before the termination of 

 the trust created by this will, he be paid 

 the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars 

 as soon as each such child shall have 

 attained the age of three years. Should 

 my said son develop scholarly tastes 

 and desire to devote his life to the pur- 

 suit of science and the acquisition of 

 knowledge (and particularly along the 

 lines of biology and genetics) and 

 manifest a degree of ability along those 

 lines (which might best be judged and 

 determined by his original essays and 

 papers appearing in scientific publica- 

 tions or by lectures before scientific 

 bodies), then and in that case I desire 

 that he have all of the money that he 

 may need and use to advantage in the 

 pursuit of the studies and researches, 

 even to the limit of the income not 

 otherwise appropriated. Should he de- 

 sire to follow some business vocation in 

 which capital is required, like agricul- 

 ture, horticulture, live stock, mercan- 

 tile or manufacturing pursuits, and 

 manifest an ability in that direction. 



I desire that he be paid the sum of ten 

 thousand dollars out of the income or 

 principal of said trust when he shall 

 have attained the age of thirty years, 

 and, if he make progress in such pur- 

 suit or calling (my trustee to be the 

 judge as to that) he shall receive ten 

 thousand dollars additional when he 

 shall have attained the age of forty 

 years. If I shall have other sons who 

 shall reach maturity, I desire that he or 

 they shall receive the same benefits and 

 that the same provisions shall apply as 

 to each of them as are above provided 

 for my present son. 



"As to my daughter and any future 

 daughters born to me, I desire that 

 she or they shall have the advantage 

 of a higher or college education, if such 

 education be of a practical or beneficial 

 kind, but I do not favor a smattering 

 of music and art and the so-called 

 accomplishments which often carry 

 with them conceits, vanities and follies 

 which later have to be unlearned at 

 bitter cost. Neither do I want their 

 minds taxed with the study of abstruse 

 branches of learning which are of but 

 little use and sometimes result in 

 shattered nerves and weakened woman- 

 hood which lessens the possibility of 

 happy and useful lives. I desire that 

 they be taught the laws of health and 

 beauty and how to preserve them; and 

 also something of the laws of heredity. 

 I desire also that they be taught that 

 as this world was created for the evo- 

 lution and development of man, their 

 supreme duty and greatest glory con- 

 sists in rearing of a family of noble sons 

 and daughters; that the more nearly 

 perfect they are themselves the greater 

 the obligation which rests upon them 

 in this respect. When it is remem- 

 bered that college girls are frequently 

 failures as wives and mothers; that 

 recent statistics go to show that they 

 average less than one child, each, it 

 will be seen that I have good and 

 sufficient reasons for not wanting to 

 devote money to the conventional 

 'higher education' of women. A col- 

 lege education is a failure and race 

 deterioration a certainty when the 

 daughters of the best families in the 



