Show IT BARON RSS ess dr 4 thins about this plat it may be of interest to ibguy have bave read of the ehni tar au ried on by the Ma baroness koness de hirsch to know how bow slie she received her first impetus to in tills abis direction dime tion it was while she W was visiting JU n con ople some years ago she had bad just lost her only son goo and seeking dis distraction tracton from her grief her thoughts turned to others and their trials she spent days and days and nights also investigating the wi miseries series of the poorer classes 11 slumming to use me a popular expression it was avus all a revel revelation 1 I ion to her and she at once went to work with that energy which is one of her marked characteristics to or canice committees to investigate and distress the first de hirsch home for girls who need a temporary refuge was founded in ConstantA constantinople nople since then other homes have been established by the baroness in belgium austria her n nievo ive country paris where she resides and within the last few months she has founded a home for hebrew emigrant girls in new york she Is spending spendina about in building and equipping I 1 this home and will then provide an aniual income inco ne ample for its maintenance in the most generous man inner nor the clara de hirsch home for working girls is to be its official title baroness clara de hirsch de gereuth gernuth Is her full name germuth gereuth being the name of ine ibe family in austria baron de name before he was knighted knish ted the baroness was clara BIscho thelm wore before her mar marriage rInge she was the dauthier dau dauz shier liter of a prosperous banker who was niso alao ala o a scholar and a statesman she was her fathers private secretary for a number of years and speaks and writes write se several veral languages when about twenty years of age she married baron de fl hirsch irsch since his death she has personally person lly managed her vast fortune I 1 S she world would be very glad to follow the bible injunction ns is to the left hands knowledge of the right hands work i for or two reasons for one she is a modest I 1 woman and unostentatious for tuu the other whenever her charit charities les are described at leng length th her mail doubles for weeks after with its usual thirty or forty fony letters daily miny many m iny of them beg gius ging letters the year round she feels that she has quite enough to do to keep several secretaries busy to say nothing of herself the ba baroness has a superb home in paris and although philanthropic schemes monopolize so much of her ume time she is iq fond of social life and her sunday evening receptions are features of life in the gay french capital |