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Show MISS GOULD'S I1DANS. Recipients Dirt Not Cook Them, but Kept Them ns Souvenirs. Apropos of cooking-, horn Is tho other side of a story of one of the richest women in Amerlci, livery ono knows of the philanthropies of Miss Helen Gould. Her philanthropy sometimes tnkes a personal nnd practical turn, and upon this occasion It took the form of a talk upon cooking. It wns given to a number of poor women upon tho Hast bide Miss Oould kpol-o to them of tho different cuts of meat, the ndvnntngo of taking ono a meat basket on ono s nrm and going to pur-chnso pur-chnso for ones self the sultnble nients and vegetables. This wns nil Interest-Ing. Interest-Ing. but the piece de leslstnnce, to to speik, of tho whole talk was In the dissertation upon the cooking ot kid-ney kid-ney beans and thn largo proportion of nutriment contained in them. Miss Gould had lit ought with hei n quantity quan-tity of beans done up In small pnr-ccls, pnr-ccls, a cupful perhaps In each parcel, and ono of these wns given to each woman present ns tnnterlnl for expert-ments expert-ments And wcio tho women pleased' Yes, Indeed, they vvero delighted nnd this is tho patt of the stor) which comes from the other side from tho peopln who know the women In their homes Did tho beans go Into unup or make a nourishing broth for the children or find their way tn tho table us n vegetable? Not a hit of It! livery woman consllered theso beans as precious pre-cious ns if they were so much gold Had the) not been presented to them by Miss Oould, who wnH not onl) the philanthropist, but ono of the rlchoRt women In America? Certalnl) And tho beans were sated as cuiefully us souvenirs of her, though a few of them were planted In tencment-houso window gurdens where they nre now growing an esthetic pleasure which MIsh Gould did not consider In presenting pre-senting them New York Times |