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Show . '(""" V . J1 V t I WILL DEVOTE LIFE TO eilAKITY.. .. After a spectacular and sensational career aa a young widow under suspicion sus-picion of having poisoned two bus-banda, bus-banda, aa a womsn of ripened beauty and word-wide reputation fighting for her second husband s entire estate, aa a determined defendant In a suit to collect col-lect $20,000 In lawyer's fees, as a poet, author, social besuty. and desperate defender de-fender of her Impeached character, Mra. Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham will retire from the gayetles. frivolities, troubles snd storms of the world and will devote the remainder of her life to charitable work in a hospital for crippled crip-pled children, which she will build In Chicago. Her decision has Just been announced and already architects are at work on the plana. It Is noted that a number of prominent promi-nent Chicago philanthropists are Interested In-terested In ths scheme, and that It will be one of the largest and best appoint-rd appoint-rd Institutions of the kind In the country. coun-try. When It la completed Mrs. Ketchm will retire from the world, will take tip her residence, In a suite of apartments In the linspltnl, and will live there quietly, doing what she can for tbs crippled Inmates fur ths rest or her life. , - Into thl Institution Mrs. Ketcham will put her entire fortune. After the building Is completed the remainder of her money will he used as an endowment endow-ment fund. |