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Show WOMEN GIVE MILlrTJNS. Olfte aad Baqaeeta ef t.lch Meaibera el the relr Saa. Women were, aa ususl, consplcn-oualy consplcn-oualy generous with gifta and bequemta during Htm the first year of the new century. The record for charitable, educational and like purposes reaches approximately the sum of IU.o00.0O0, or about $1,600,000 every month. Of the $15,000,000 given to colleges alone during the first six months of the year women contributed $1,000,000. It haa been noted that, while men give more liberally to education, women contributed chiefly to charity and religion. re-ligion. Her beautiful home In Virginia, 1.600 acres of land and an endowment of $700,000 la a reient gift, by will, of Mrs. Indiana Williams for a girls' school. Mrs. .MK'ormlrk. of Chicago, continues her liberal gifts to education, educa-tion, and Miss Helen Uould contributed contrib-uted to the same cause moat generously. gener-ously. Vaasar College haa been presented pre-sented Kith scholarships as well as the New York University, the latter receiving a fund for perpetual endow-menta, endow-menta, Mlsa Uould la also Interested In Young Men a Christian Associations, Associa-tions, having erected buildings for several. Yale College has profited by the generosity of several women. A valuable library. IKMl.OoO to establish a Y. M. C. A. for the aclentlflc achool, and money to found a memorial fellowship fel-lowship being among the Important gifts. Libraries hare profited to the extent of $1,000,000 by women's gifts. In the realm of charity, gifts and bequests be-quests are recorded segregating; tha splendid sum of $10,000,000. Karely, If ever, haa 80 much money been contributed con-tributed for charitable purposes as thla year. I'pon Easter day alone In New York rhiirrhra, nearly half a million mil-lion waa placed un the alms basins at the different services, Grace church giving $167,600 of this amount. It Is safe to Bay that women gave over half of thla near half million dollars. At the trlenniul ronventlon of the Epla-copal Epla-copal church, held at fluu Franclaco, In October, women gave $100,000 for mlaeiona, and pledged the further sum of $16,000 for a girls' achool In China. One of the moat notable glfta for hospitals hos-pitals la that of Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, Hunt-ington, who haa presented her beautiful beauti-ful home In Hun Franclaco to tha city, to be converted Into a hospital for women. The house cost a quarter of a million dollars and was used only shout two montha In tha year by the Huntlngtona. Indianapolis News. |