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Show A Beneficent Request. An unknown Englishwoman left by will recontly "a curious fund" for the benefit of womon who have seen better bet-ter days. Tho testatrix, who desired that her name and the names of tho annuitants under her will should not be published, left $80,000 and her residuary resi-duary eRtate, which will probably malto up the total to nearly $175,000, In trust to apply tho Income In payment pay-ment of annuities of $300 each to unmarried un-married women who must bo ladles by birth and havo fallen from affluence or from comfortable circumstances and havo no present assured Income of more than $50 a year each. There Is no restriction as to religious belief, the annuitants aro to be women nominated nomi-nated by her during her life or chosen by a majority of the trustees. |