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SOCIETY NOTES 
A very interesting gathering was held last Friday 
afternoon at the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
S. Bradley, Pride’s Crossing, when President Taft was 
one of the speakers at a meeting in the interest of 
Hampton Institute of which Booker T. Washington 1s 
the head. Society was largely represented at the meet- 
ing and several thousand dollars was pledged toward 
the support of the school and its great work. Major 
Henry L. Higginson presided. Addresses telling of the 
work were given by Dr. H. B. Frissell and his assistant, 
I, A. Moulton. President Taft said in the course of his 
address : 
‘‘T am not a millionaire and I have never had the feel- 
ings of one, but sometimes one’s imagination takes life 
and you wonder what you would do if you had an in- 
come of $5,000,000 or $10,000,000 a year and had the or- 
dinary feelings of a man who wished to help his fellow- 
men. It seems to me that one would like about first to 
find those things to which he could be certain he might 
sive his money and get a return of good to human kind, 
and in looking about I am very sure that he could not 
find a place in which he could for the .benefit of human- 
kind invest his money with more certainty of returns 
than in Hampton institute. 
I think it does not speak quite well for all the gentlemen 
who. are contributing generously to various causes that 
the head of an institution like Hampton, which is the 
beginning of a great movement to solve the race ques- 
tion in this country, should be obliged to go about seek- 
ing $100,000 a year and take a burden on himself that 
nobody appreciates until he has had to get that money 
in this way. One hundred thousand dollars a year is 
the income on a certain number of millions, and Hamp- 
ton ought to have had those millions long ago in order 
that the head of the institution—and it is the same 
with Tuskegee as with Hampton—may not waste his 
life in raising money, but may devote his attention to 
the good which he can do in earrying on such a school 
and making it more efficient. | 
‘‘Kdueation is the solution of the race question when 
it is directed toward giving the negro a self-respect and 
a belief in the dignity of labor, and in the necessity for 
his making himself a valuable member of the community 
in order that the white man may then give him what is 
his due. When a man is a valuable member of a com- 
munity as a laborer, as a skilled laborer, and one who 
builds up the industries of the community, then he will 
buuilds up the industries of the community, then he will 
get all the rights that are coming to him. 
‘‘T do not like to go into polities or to discuss the fact, 
but I do believe that the present situation in the South 
is one full of hope for the solution of the negro question, 
because politics is largely out of it, and now the south- 
ern white man, and the northern white man, and the 
southern negro are all uniting in this movement to teach 
the 10,000,000 negroes how to support themselves; how 
to support the community in which they live, and when 
their value in the community is demonstrated, as it is 
being demonstrated, the race question will have its 
solution. 
‘No-one can read the lectures that Booker Washing- 
ton has delivered to his own people without realizing 
that he is one of the greatest men of this country, and 
that he dares tell them the truth in order that they 
may begin to build up their lives on a sure foundation.’’ 
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Mr. and Mrs. Newell Bent of Southboro are at the 
Brownland cottages, Manchester, for a few weeks. 
Gordon Abbott, who went to New York to see the. 
Spanish yachtsmen off, has returned to West Man- 
chester. = 
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W. H: Beers and family who have spent several weeks — 
at Browland cottages, Manchester, concluded their stay: 
Thursday of this week and returned to New York. 
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J. Arthur Beebe, of Commonwealth ave., Boston, mo- 
tored to Green Gables, Magnolia, with a party for 
luncheon on Tuesday of this week. 
Myron W. Whitney, jr., the Boston baritone, will 
give a song recital this afternoon at the Beverly Farms 
residence of Mrs. Nathaniel S. Simpkins. 
Some fourteen theatrical people from Boston enjoyed 
an outing on the Masconomo hotel grounds, Manchester, 
Sunday, through the courtesy of John B. Schoeffel. 
The annual children’s day at the Manchester Yacht 
club was observed Saturday, when a company of young 
people, many being accompanied by their elders, gath- 
ered at the clubhouse in the afternoon and enjoyed a 
very delightful entertainment, consisting of a lecture 
by Mrs. John Colby Abbott of Boston, who presented 
‘‘La Grande Pandore,’’ a name given Mrs. Abbott’s 
original paper doll creation, which is lifesize and dressed 
in the fantastic costumes of past generations. 
all the gorgeous costumes of the period of Louis XVL., 
including most wonderful head dresses 72 inches high, 
aud other equally startling toilettes, and described in a 
most entertaining way as the lecturer proceeded. Mrs. 
Abbott closed with a delightful little poem, written by 
herself, telling of the tragic end of Marie Antoinette. 
The lecture was supplemented by a punch and judy show 
by a special artist in that line, which was much appreci- 
ated by the young folks. 
ELLA HARDING 
Smith Bldg. - - - Lexington Ave. 
MAGNOLIA 
Representing 
J. FIELDS and MME. CAMPBELL 
Corsetiere 
47 W. 45th St., N. Y. 
326 5th Ave., N. Y. 
in Gowns 
Late Paris models in evening gowns sacri- 
ficed below cost; also showing an attractive 
line of fall dresses in newest materials and 
shades, at unusual values. 
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Mme Campbell’s corset models accurately 
for casting fashion’s decree. 
Mrs.. 
Abbott took for her subject Marie Antoinette, showing 
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