Show OF 7 HELEN GOULD THE BEST LOVED WOMAN ON EARTH name ot of the great american philanthropist held la ia reverence the world over forced by 11 health to lessen her labors in in the cause of chanty charity america americas beet best loved woman the best loved woman in the world the titles are synonymous synonym oue and belong to a woman who hag has consecrated rated hr hor life to charity and whose effort efforts ta in behalf of 0 her leos 1 fortunate fellow beings have capped her limited strength to the verge of A physical breakdown now her physician has ordered her to take absolute reel rest not for or a week a month or two irentha but until her health Is 1 fully restored when one considers con eldera the amount of work which has las occupied miss goulds attention the wonder onder will nut not be that she ho was forced to lessen her labors but that ehe she was not compelled to do eo so long ago the cope scope of her charity has been world wide it has ha been so varied as to embrace practically every branch of philanthropic work no hobby bobby has confined her liberality to one or two lines of giving no local pride haa has limited her generosity to a particular ar section ebion her tier charity has been ag as unbounded in a geographical dense ense as it has bean unstinted in the euma expended w A two contradictory qualities have united in making helen boull 1 one of the most widely known and be beet bt loved women in the world one Is an ex femininity quick to respond to the sufferings of others ye yet shrinking to the point of timidity the other Is a sense nse of right and anti wrong which Is s puritanical in its inflexibility making maling no compromise tor for expediency a sake and ind alert ani militant when occasion demands this first quality Is axem in her love for children in her numerous nume roue gifts to tho the poor the othor other waa was manifested in her determination to clear her fathers father s memory and the unyielding refusal which met the corn promise tendered tender pd by the woman who claimed to have been bis his wife A weaker spirit would have been glad to hush bush up a scandal but ehe she wae was strong enough to maintain her in f mss saw GOULD faith in her father and pro prove ye to tho the world that his 1 name was unsullied the social life sho she might have claimed she he cassid by marriage she did not think of or it she did she took no one into her confidence rhilan thropa tiff offered ered the broadest field for her talents talen tsi and her wealth and she chose it 11 today to day liy she Is the most com manding figure in the world of charity others others have havo given more but not la in proportion to their income helen gould a benefactions have cone out into the byway byways seeking the lowly a and nd aiding individuals with nothing but lut personal satisfaction and the think of a grateful recipient as her beward i she Is the only american woman who has ever given money to this gur gor for military purposes she iwas va firm in her belief that the united baates was la in the right in the war with spain and on may 11 1898 ehe she sent her check for to the tre aurer of the united states to help defray the expense of the conflict she did more than this to manifest her loyalty she was tho the leading spirit in the womans war relief association and it wu largely through her efforts Z her ber executive ability and her willing cess ness and ability to give that tho the suffer inga ings of the old rold lers at montauk point were alleviated sho she paid dally daily visits to the tick sick troops at camp wyckoff a and n d when the comforts comfort and to in some cases tho the necess necessities ides were lacking she ho placed at the disposal of mrs birl L II 11 walworth Wat worth the president of the relief association wherever sho the saw need ehe she stepped in to satisfy it she opened a temporary hospital hotal I 1 for or sick ick soldiers Bold lers and put a phy physician ician in charge she made others spend their F period of convalescence in comfortable AP 1 quarters near her country home her iter work at this caused the soldiers eold lers to regard her bet as a minister tas jog angel for or not only was she quick to respond with her purse but she the endured the fatigue of long tramps on elny day days in making the rounds ol 01 the camp for her efforts la in behall behalf ot of the soldiers she ho was thanked by UK the legislatures of 0 new now york pensyl I 1 lystila 1 and fill illinois cots she aleo was vote i a gold ameial by congress gas senator hoar wae was induced to with draw his objection to chit he be regarded as a proceeding proceed liiK without precedent for he be was compelled to admit that her conduct throughout the war was aleo also without wit bout precedent precede tit to the eoldia and anti ballor wearing the uniform of her country she has been a stanch friend an ani I 1 that they appreciate thie this Is shown by the prea pres en tatton tation to her of 0 a military album bearing bearl riK the autographs of 0 1000 sol sot diera and who took part in the war with spain but shedid the did not forget her boys in blue after tho the kle gle was over more afore than one trans port sailed out of the harbor of san tran francesco francl cisco bearing books to the sol sot diets in tho the philippines to be placed A in neat bookcases boo kragca upon their arrival in the orlet Is it any wonder then thit the soldiers sold lera and bailous bailors should regard her with a feeling akin to veneration it there were wore no other beneficiaries of her bounty they would be sufficient tent to make her the beet best lovel woman in the world orld to them the ho ie Is the ideal ot of patriotic american momin womanhood hood and on all seas and among strange nations they have carried car memories of her new ork lork press |