Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1880 — A Noble Example. [ARTICLE]

A Noble Example.

Mrs. Robert L. Stuart is at the head of the cooking school. What a. noble example this woman gives the public! Her husband is worth $4,000,000, but this does not relieve her of the claims of duty. She takes an interest in social advance, and therefore lends her influence to the improvement of the culinary art. The Stuarts have always been a useful family, and though limited to two generations, they have done enough to immortalize the name. The father came from Edinburg a bankrupt in pm - se, fleeing from his creditors, but rich in purpose and courage. He opened a cent candy shop and worked fifteen hours a day, until the creditors were paid in full. The amount was £1,500, equal to $7,500, but money was then worth double its present value. The sons inherited the business, which th#y made immensely profitable, and they shared their profits ltberaily with objects of benevolence. They have been among the leading philanthropists of the day, and their benefactions in the aggregate are probably more than a million. Mrs. Stuart now gives what is really of more value than money, when she takes the presidency of a cooking school. This feature in education has been sadly neglected, and it is time a reformation took place. —New York Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.