| Show 11 Women Give Away the Millions Men Have Fought For YORK— How Is the Amer- may be mentioned innumerable dona- ican woman spending the for- tions to the Salvation Army $5000 of a Uniwhich the American man given to the establishment N-E- tune Is amassing? versity hospital at Charlottesville Va How does the American wife $15000 to the Y M C A at N Y $10000 for the American or daughter act as almoner lor the American Writers there have been both Amer-caand foreign who have declared lhat the American man’s money went o create a nation of human butterflies But social history goes to prove that Ihe average wife or daughter of the I X iverage American man of enormous lortune stops between butterfly flights D social realms to study the desires tnd ambitions of husband and father is to the disposition of the millions he so Industriously acquiring Mrs Leland Stanford was the In executing the charitable of her husband She spent 133 000000 for the educational of California at Stanford iniversity alone Mrs Russell Sage is a close second with $65000000 at her command prhich she is dispensing at the rate of ibout $25000 per day or about in the three years following her lusband’s death Russell Sage gave 10 years of his life to acquire $65000-10At her present rate of expendi-iui'Mrs Sage will spend it all in tarrying out her husband's plans for he betterment of the human race in Ive years She has endowed the work of the Russell Sage Foundation vtiose mission is to better the condition of the poor through investigation tnd education She has lifted mortgages from churches and schools chairs of learning built and iquipped industrial schools for girls lifted the debt from hospitals and ihown interest in New York city to ihe extent of renovating the governor’s room in the city hall purchasing “The Oxbow" for the Metropolitan Museum of Art planting a mile of in Central park and rhododendrons Installing a Tlllinghast window in the building of the New York Historical lociety Work of Miss Helen Gould Miss Helen Gould comes third in the list with more than $10000000 in gifts from the enormous fortune ‘left by While her unler father Jay Gould had always charities ostentatious it was not been a matter of Interest intil the war with Spain that the nation became widely interested in her At that time she dent her check gifts !or $100000 to the United States to be applied to the general relief work among United States solders and within three months as a member of the Women’s Relief she increased her gift by some 27000 From that time on Miss Gould’s interest in American soldiers and Jack-e- s Wherever the has never flagged United States flag floats her name is peered by the men who serve under The Naval Y M C A branch on Sands street Brooklyn was built at tier expense as a memorial to her parents Later she met the expenses of building a large addition and the entire output for this one institution is aid to approach closely to $1000000 To the naval Y M C A at Norfolk The railroad Va she gave $25000 men’s Y M C A next aroused her Interest and she gave $150000 to build a new home for the Y M C A at St Louis Mo this also a memorial to her father Among her gifts cited to show the breadth of her interests t Mrs Vanderbilt’s smaller charities also along the same alines She hospital its gave the Presbyterian fresh air ward and she has paid the expenses of sending trained nurses into the tenements to look after the sick and to train mothers in the raising of children She also established a small hospital in Paris under the and when direction of Dr Gautier in the French capital she visits this hospital daily ministering to the sick and lifting their financial burdens Another section of the Vanderbilt fortune is going into English social The duchess of Marlborough work formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt has established in London a much needed home for the wives and children of prisoners serving long sentences She is also interested in the West Ham hospital London and it is whispered that under the influence of the Church Army she is becoming a most absorbed social worker among the poor and wretched of London Miss Morgan in Good Work Miss Anne Morgan daughter of J Plerpont Morgan Is a typical Bocial worker of devoting her gifts and energies to the educational moveAs a ment for the working classes of member the National Civic Federation she investigates conditions under which women labor and she has donated much of the funds necessary to establish clubs and restaurants for working people such as the new club rooms and restaurant for street car employes on Third avenue and the restaurant for workers at the Brooklyn navy yard where food is sold at cost and men are made comfortable with baths and gymnasiums Miss Morgan’s idea is to help the poor and those working on small salaries to help themselves to create better conditions not merely to alleviate Two young New York women Miss inherited a Dorothy Whitney who large portion of the William C Whitney fortune and Miss Mary Harri-madaughter of the late railroad in the Junior king are interested league work among New York’s public school children and will donate the money to start dental clinics for poor Miss Harriman children has recently equipped an old Staten Island ferry boat and donated it""lo the Red Cross committee of Brooklyn to be used in the fight on the White Plague It will accommodate 100 patients and three meals will be served daily on ' the floating hospital 4 Miss Whitney has also given liberally to diet kitchens among the poor and is interested in the equal suffrage f movement Interested in Woman Suffrage Two New York matrons promise to spend goodly segments of their fortunes to advance the cause of votes lor women These are Mrs Clarence Mackay who has personally assumed the expenses of headquarters for the Equal Franchise society of which she is the founder on the floor of the Metropolitan Life building and Mrs O H P Belmont who as the leader of the Equal Suffrage party has assumed the responsibility of headquarters at 505 Fifth avenue Mrs Mackay before entering upon her career as a leader in the franchise fight gave large sums to support Long Island charaties to the building of a new church for Trinity Episcopal parish- at Roslyn L I and to its new parish house Large sums she gave also for the betterment of the public schools of which she was a director the minds and to arouse patriotism-iin New of public school children' York city and its environs Are for Girls at Constantinople who had to the evangelists been conducting tent meetings in various parts of New York city and who were face to face with financial failure $9500 for a club house at with gymnasium and cooking school for the poor $40000 to endow a chair of biblical literature at Mt Holyoke college in memory of her at mother $10000 for a scholarship Vassar to be named for her mother Helen Day Gould the endowment of a church for Indians at Guthrie Okla College $10000 Gould Millions Well Spent Over $10000000 of Jay Gould’s legacy to his daughter have gone for charity and almost invariably as a memoMiss Gould rial to father or mother is assisted in her work by a staff of trained social workers Mrs Thomas F Ryan wife of the traction magnate comes next to Miss in the size of her gifts to Gould A devout churches and charities Catholic her gifts to the church have amounted to many million dollars Nearly $1000000 went to the building and furnishing of the Cathedral of St At WashingPeter at Richmond Va ton D C she established a branch of the order of the Perpetual Adoration building for the order’s use a chapel Five French nuns were and convent installed there one of whom is always engaged In prayer before the altar The chapel cost $200000 and under its altar Mrs Ryan has built a crypt in which will rest the members Aside from her church of her family charities Mrs Ryan is particularly interested in the fight on the white plague and has endowed sanitariums and consumptives’ colonies in Arizona A Virginian and the Catskills by birth she has presented to her native state suitable monuments to mark battles all of Beenes the fought in Virginia Jn recognition of her gifts to" the church Pope Pius X bestowed upon Mrs Ryan the title of “Countess” but she has never availed herself of the privilege Another gift at the hand of the Vatican which she does use is the privilege of owning a traveling chapel which was installed in her private car This is the only “Pere Marquette" traveling chapel in America and there is only one other in the world the property of the queen dowager of Spain Mrs Vanderbilt’s Charities Mrs William K Vanderbilt formerhas Just given ly Mrs Rutherford for the erection of model $1000000 tenement houses for the use of city These sufferers with tuberculosis tenements will be built on plans especially drawn for Mrs Vanderbilt and stairthe scheme includes outside cases roofs arranged for the accommodation of convalescents with log gias toilet rooms and a sun sereen ol glass balconies that can be trans formed into outdoor sleeping rooms and air passages from street to street These Insuring perfect ventilation They apartments will not be in may even prove an vestment for the Vanderbilts but they will be under the patronage of the Presbyterian hospital authorities who are making a tremendous fight on the White Plague II P Belmont donated to the Nassau hospital at Mineola L I and has bden interested in diet kitchens among the poor at New York Miss Giulia Morosini who Inherited the bulk of the many millions accumulated by her father Giovanni P Morosini the "New York banker who died a year ago spends large sums playing the perpetual role of Lady Bountiful for the benefit of needy ones and in the Bronx particularly children And at Christmas time she is Lady Santa Claus distributing wagon loads of dolls and dollar bills and other gifts Her donations to among the poor charitable and other worthy institutions are large who is A young woman making Pittsburg sit up and take notice of her methods of spending money is Miss Helen Frick daughter of a‘ multimillionaire father who Is himself a Miss Frick’s name most liberal giver is on the endowment list of Kingsley Settlement House and nearly every but flourishing charity in Pittsburg it is in individual cases that her Her most clearly Bhines loyalty to' her native city from which she will not be lured by New York London or Paris is a cause of rejoicing among Pittsburg social workers Fights Infectious Diseases The two American billionaires John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie of the still order the management charities but their women folk are by Mrs Rockefeller has no means idle woman always been a who left charities their investigation and relief to her husband but Mrs Harold F McCormick formerly Edith Rockefeller has her own methods of conducting charity work With her husband she endowed a new "Journal of Infectious Diseases” with $125000 shortly after the death of her son Jack from scarlet fever Her interest in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research has also been very But her individual charities great The are to her the most absorbing Baptist church of which she is a member has been her chief beneficiary and many a tired church worker and unappreciated pastor has received from her a check representing a long rest or a trip abroad Mrs Andrew Carnegie i$ greatly interested in the fight on the White Plague and has given liberally to sanfor children itariums particularly She also gives to orphanages and Industrial homes for girls and is interested in young art students and musicians In Pittsburg the name of Margaret Carnegie is not unknown for In the name of his little daughter Mr Carnegie has endowed many social movements including Kingsley Settlement House hospital beds etc The Margaret Marrlson Carnegie School for Women part of the Carnegie institute scheme of education is named for his mother and it is generally thought that Margaret Carnegie aged 12 years will be trained to carry out her father's scheme of benefactions Mrs O $100000 American Consul in Siberia Omsk Siberia now has an American consulate with Adolph F Reinecke in Heretofore there has been charge no American consular representation in the extensive Russian region between Moscow and Vladivostok over nl this territory 5000 miles apart are many large cities and the coundetry is showing rapid agricultural Last fall 5000 Russian velopment Omsk immigrants passed through each 24 hours t HOW TO SAVE LAUNDRY WORK Hints on Clothing for the Woman of Limited Means with Family For the woman of limited means who desires many changes of attire for herself and family the laundry in summer and autumn will be a source of expense or a heavy tax on her physical strength if she does the work herself One woman's personal experience has found the seersuckers and cotton crepes so much in vogue this season to be great savers of money and labor A cotfon crepe waist may be a very elaborate affair made of imported goods ornamented with and Irish lace As so many women embroider well and are adept at making Irish lace the cost of a waist in their case would be only the material while for its future washing only is necessary Cheaper crepons make serviceable waists while seersucker of every-dapure white or white with a colored stripe will make work dresses underskirts and aprons Rompers for children may be made of this same serviceable material Crepon also makes excellent negligee shirts There is a strong prejudice against unironed clothes which if overcome would lighten the housekeeper’s burden Stockings and knit underwear do not need ironing Taken from the line they have a fresh Wholesome country scent which is wholly lost after the clothes are ironed With the larger pieces of a washing sent to a laundry as “flat work” stockings and underwear worn unironed and seersucker and crepon used for dresses and a housekeeper would see a visible reduction of expense and a saving of health and strength USE FOR THE OLD SHEETS Thrifty Housewife Tacks Them Up Closet to Protect Her Best Gowns In When I find that an old Bheet has become too worn to turn or use in any way explains a thrifty housewife I take it to tack up in a closet behind my best gowns Another may have brass rings sewn on the side at intervals and the rings slipped over small nails driven in above the hooks on which the gowns are hung Many people use calico or chintz curtains for this purpose but to me a sheet always has the appearance of being much cleaner while the gowns are protected from dust I haVe several old linen sheets which have been cut in half and when packing a trunk I find these In convenient which to do up one or two light gowns Potato Soup ' Five potatoes one onion four slices baton cut very thin a pint of milk a dessertspoonful of Worcestershire sauce a tablespoonful of flour one tablespoonful of butter a teaspoonful of Balt half a saltspoonful of black pepper and a dash of cayenne or Pare and dice the potatoes paprika Slice' the onion and the bacon and fry together until brown Put the potatoes with the bacon and onion into a deep saucepan and cover with boiling water Cook until the potatoes are tender toRub the flour and butter gether add the hot milk stir until mixed and pour gradually on to the Let the soup boil until it potatoes thickens add the Worcestershire sauce of Canned Food Dangers Dr Kate Lindsay in a magazine article warns housekeepers about leaving canned vegetables and fruits in the cans after they are opened and also about leaving metal spoons in the fruit or vegetables It is well to insist upon pure food she says but there are certain household regulations that must be observed or the purest food will become Impure Pineapple Sherbet This Is made from the grated canned pineapple Add a pint of water to a pint of the pineapple and cook 15 minutes Strain through cheescloth add a teaspoonful of gelatin that has been soaked in a quarter of a cupful of cold water the Juice of a large lemon and a cupful of sugar Serve in glasses Strain and freeze after the roast or before the game course at a heavy dinner as an aid to A bit of the sliced pinedigestion apple can be put on top of ' each glass Tomato Marmalade Pare and slice four quarts of ripe tomatoes add four pounds of granu- lated sugair six large lemons and one Put these in a cup of seeded raisins kettle in layers and cook one hour or Pack in jars and until quite thick cover with paraffin — Good Housekeeping Saving Strength In sewing make the arm motion down ward Instead of upward or sideways as the! threap is drawn through the Much less energy is required cloth j |
