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Show -UMimiiiiiimiirfliini 111 WEALTHY WOMEN'S WILLS. Why do benevolent rromn so seldom make provision in their wills for the benefit of their own sex? Emma Ab-lsoTT Ab-lsoTT was a generous and kindly ioul. Her will was in most respects not unworthy un-worthy of her lovable character. The testamentary disposition of her property pro-perty was generous in bequests to institutions in-stitutions of religion and charity. Yet tiiis woman, whose sift of song had brought, her wealth, did not Itave one bequest for the benefit of any institution institu-tion of charity or education exclusively exclusive-ly for woman. Wealthy Mrs. Fogg recently re-cently lft S200,OCOby will, not to Harvard's Har-vard's annex, where it would benefit her own sex, but to the main Harvard College, where its beneficiaries would be young men. Of the $400,000 that she bequeathed to other educational institutions not a dollar went to a woman's college. No doubt these ladms had a right to do as they would with their own. But in - view vt the fact that there are so many ways in which legacies of money cau be of immense assistance as-sistance to the cause of higher female education The Dispatch regrets that more wealthy woman do not provide pecuniarily for the intellectual and moral needs of their striving sisters. |