Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-10-13
Spend As You Go.

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does not intend waiting until her death
To distribute her wealth for benevolent
purposes, only to have herself, like the
late Miss Burr, shown up in court as q
vile and dirty miser, her old clothes and
broken furniture exhibited as proof of
her squalid and menial existence, and
her intelligent capacity to give her
money away denied by the heirs and re-
lnLives, who think it should come to
them instead of going to religious and
charitable objects.
Miss Catherine Wolfe is credited with
disbursing in the last ten years S2,O00,-
600 of the large estate left by her
father. She has given it to a score of
institutions and societies, but all Of the
most practicable and useful kind; to a
home for incu-ables; to a newsbOys'
lodgings house; To Union College for
the education of poor and deserving
young men from the South; to school
for girls in Colorado; to an enterprise
of Christian socialism or communism on
Long Island; To tho erection of \ build
ing in connection with Grace Church, of
which she is a member, mainly devoted
to club rooms for young men and young
women, where clerks, art students,
teachers and others living in lodgings
may find the best current literature,
music, bright, cheerful and elegant
club-rooms, bathrooms, writing-ro
etc., for the use of members, whose
dues (25 cents i month or p so Year,
are so small rs to be burden to no one,
and yet preserve the feeling of self-re-
spect which relucts at using dole; and
where, though the clubhouse adjoins
church, no religious tests are eXscted,
nor, indeed, any question as to ones
belief or denomination asked; to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and to the
church of which she is member, bv
the addition of costly and beautiful
specimens of ecclesiastical art and archi-
lecture, unexampled in this country.
This has been done under her own
immediate supervision; showing a broad
and catholic taste; a shrewd, practical
sense; a want of bigotry and sectarian
prejudice, and securing to her the pecu-
liar but enviable pleasure of seeing her
bounty enjoyed and the fruits of 1t
realized while she is here and alive to
gather all the luxury of being honored,
loved and admired.
The greatest pleasure which the ven-
cradle Peter Cooper, now approaching
a century of existence, derives from life
is the love and gratitude. the Difference,
homage and affection shown him when
he visits his "Institute" and is sur
rounded by scores of admiring pupils, of
both sexes, that are the recipients " his
bounty, and are learning art and science
and practical affairs by means of the
schools and professorships his wealth
long ago endowed. 1t is said that the
sight of this spectacle so touched the
sensibilities of hundred millionaire one
day that he was almost persuaded to 60
and do likewise. Unluckily for him and
others, when he got by himself this
spasm of generosity and human sympa-
thy passed off, and he set himself at
work again to pile up higher an already
huge fortune. But even his mOmentary
weakness was ample proof of the genu-
ineness of the scene he had witnessed.
Mr.. Reuben Springer, of Cincinnati,
is another of the benevolent givers who
get cash dividends of pleasure from
their investments for other peoples
benefit. His rich gifts to his fellow
citizens have made him the idol Of the
city. Only the other day, in the pres
ence of q vast multitude who cheered
him to the echo, the statue of their
living benefactor, chiseled by the hand
of the son of the artist Powers, himself
derived from Cincinnati family, was
unveiled to the public. 1t was gift to
the city of other citizens his example
had affected. The old man is now
ready to depart in peace, for his own
eyes have seen the glory TO which mon
in their lifetime attain, as a reward for
their humanity and their practical and
personal distribution of their wealth for
the good of their fellow citizens. 1t Is
a noble and beautiful lesson. This is
the one Wholesome exception to the fru-
gal rule, which says you should not
"spend as you go."-Desroit Free
Press.