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Show Liberal In Expenditure for Fad. Emllie Grlgsby, whose arrival in this country with Jewelry amounting to 100,000 again put her In the public eye, la aa ardent collector of prayer books and religious rituals. Her Intense In-tense Interest In religious philosophy, on which s4ie has written a great deal In letters. Is so great that she haa a library devoted entirely to books on (he subject. In her travels In Eng land and In Europe she haa visited old book shops and has collected old Hlbles, translations of the histories written about tbe early Christians, worka In pen by the old monka. She usually baa had with ber a , connoisseur connois-seur on such books and also baa employed em-ployed scholars to translate tbe books to her and to discuss with her the meanings of the different writers). For all those things she has paid highly, and her lavish spending of money cer-taialy cer-taialy startled the acbolara who always al-ways have been content with small remuneration for their services. |