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Show HELEN GOULD TME BEST . ' - LOVED WOM AN ON EARTH Name of the. Great American -Philanthropist Held in , . : ' ' Reverence the World Over Forced, by 111 Healths to - - ; : Lessen Her Labors in the Cause of Charity, . .. '"'J.':-. . sick soldiers and put. a , physician in; charge.- She made others'spend their period of convalescence in comfortable comfort-able quarters near her country home. " Her work at this period caused the' soldiers to regard her as a ministering minister-ing angel, for not only was she quick to respond with her purse, but she endured the fatigue of long tramps on rainy days in making the rounds of the camp. For her efforts in behalf of the soldiers she was thanked by th legislatures of New York, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Illinois. -She also was voted a gold medal by Congress. Punctilious Punctili-ous Senator Hoar was induced to with.- i ". America's best loved -woman! The :best loved woman in the world! The titles are synonymous and belong to a -woman .who has consecrated her life to charity, and whose efforts in behalf of her less fortunate fellow beings have sapped her limited strength to the verge of a physical breakdown. Now her physician has ordered her to take "absolute rest," not for a week, a month or two months, but until her health is fully restored. When one considers the amount of work which has occupied Miss Gould's attention, the wonder will not be that she was forced to lessen her labors, but that she was not compelled to do so long ago. The scope of her charity has been world-wide. It has been so varied as to embrace practically every branch of philanthropic work. No hobby has confined her liberality to one or two lines of giving. No local pride has limited her generosity to a particular section. Her charity has been as unbounded in a geographical sense as it has been unstinted in the sums expended. Two " contradictory qualities have united in making Helen Gould one of the most widely known and best loved women in the world. One is an exquisite ex-quisite femininity, quick to respond to the sufferings of others, yet shrinking to the point of timidity. The other is a sense of right and wrong which is Puritanical in its. inflexibility,, making no compromise for expediency's sake, and alert and militant when occasion demands. This first quality is exemplified exem-plified in her love for children, in her numerous gifts to the poor. The other was manifested in her determination to clear her father's memory and the unyielding refusal which met the compromise com-promise tendered by the woman who claimed to have been his wife. A weaker spirit would have been glad to hush up a possible scandal, but she draw his objection to what he regarded re-garded as a proceeding without precedent, prece-dent, for he was compelled to admit that her conduct throughout the war was also without precedent. "To the soldier and sailor wearing the uniform of her country she has; been a stanch friend, and that they appreciate this is shown by the presentation pres-entation to her of a military album bearing the autographs of 3,000 soldiers sol-diers and sailors who took part in the war with Spain. But she did not forget for-get her boys in -blue after the struggle strug-gle was over. More than one transport trans-port sailed out of the harbor of San Francisco bearing books to the soldiers sol-diers in the Philippines, to be placed in neat bookcases upon their arrival in the Orient. is 11 any wonuer, men, iuu mo soldiers and sailors should regard her with a feeling akin to veneration? If there were no other beneficiaries of her bounty they would be sufficient to make her the best loved woman in the world. To them she is the ideal of patriotic American womanhood, and on all seas and among strange nations they have carried memories of het kindness. New York Press v aa auuu6 cuvu&u j luctiuiu mss immrr. govld faith in her father and prove to the world that his name was unsullied. The social life she might have claimed she passed by. Marriage 6he did not think of, or if she did she took no one into her confidence. Philanthropy- offered the broadest field for her talents and her wealth, and she chose it To-day she is the most commanding com-manding figure in the world of charity. Others have given more, but not in proportion to their income. Helen Gould's benefactions have gone out into the byways, . seeking the lowly and aiding individuals, with nothing but personal satisfaction and the thanks of a grateful recipient as her reward. She is the only American woman who has ever given money to this government gov-ernment for military purposes. She was firm in her belief that the United States was in the right in the war with Spain, and on May 11, 1898, she sent her check for ?100,000 to the treasurer of the United States to help defray the expense of the conflict. She did more than this to manifest her loyalty. She was the leading spirit in the Woman's War Relief association, and it was largely through her efforts. her executive ability and her willingness willing-ness and ability to give that the sufferings suffer-ings of the soldiers at Montauk Point were alleviated. She paid daily visits to the sick troops at Camp Wyckoff, and when the comforts, and in some cases the necessities, were lacking, she placed ?25,000 at the disposal of Mrs. E. H. Walworth, the president of the relief association. Wherever she saw need she stepped in to satisfy it. She opened a temporary hospital for |