The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-05
OUR CHARITABLE WOMEN.
What the Good Angels Have Done
and Are Doing.
From the Retc York World.


From the Ne,c York World.
The favorite charity OF women this sum
mer has been the furnishing of summer
homes for the children Of the poor and for
working women Miss Nellie Gould, the
mnlionaires own daughter, has been deeply
interested in one and has made several Wis
it's this season to the Children's Seaside House
at Atlantic City. What she likes to do is t
run up to town during the hottest days,
make a round of the hospitals, pick out a
dozen convalescents for whom the doctors
recommend sea air and whirl them out, as
if by magic, from the furnace-like, roaring
city to the quiet Of green fields and the COO
wash of salt waves. There are SCORES of lit
tie rosy checked, sturdy young ones on their
way back to the city now, these first coo
days Of autumn, whom the rich and tender
hearted girl took away with her a few
weeks ago white, languid and fretful. Miss
Gould is very young yet, not twenty, and
the richest prospective heiress in America.
1t is supposed that she will inherit anyway
from twenty to fifty millions, as she is her
fathers favorite and his especial pride and
delight. She is very simple, both in dress
and manner, and half the time goes shop
ping or to the matinee ia the horse-cars in
the most democratic fashion, and is much
less fine in dress and arrogant in manner
than many of the shop girls who wait upon
her. She spends more money on bric-s-brac
than on anything else, and has some treas
ures that would be envied by national
museums. She paints with some skill and
her apartments are charmingly adorned
with the work Of her own brush and pencil.
She is particularly fond of china painting,
and much of her work is extremely credit
able, she having taken lessons from the
Frenchman who has the superintendance OF
the painting rooms of the Sevres manufac-
tories
Mrs. Sib!ey, the daughter Of the late Mrs.
Fletcher Harper, supports charming sum-
mer resort for shopgirls at North Long
Branch called ''Seashore Cottage" where
they can go for their vacation and board
for IS week, with all the comforts and ad-
vantages for which the watering-place
hotels charge prices prohibitive to poor
women. The Misses Potter, the daughters
of the bishop, have had another such home
this summer on Long Island, and by living
there themselves and giving up their whole
summer to the care and management of it
they have been enabled to board the girls
for the nominal sum of SO a week. They
have made their charity personal one, sat
at the table with the girls and mingled in
all their amuSements. Mrs. Van Rensselaer,,
well known as the author of the charming
papers in the Century on the English Cathe-
drals, and her sister, Miss Louise Griswold,
have also been interested in a Summer
Rest" for poor women up on the sound.
They all report that they have never had a
single case of bad behavior, rudeness or un-
ruliness among the many coming and going
inmates of these summer homes There
are very few rules and those have never
been broken. The girls are allowed almost
the same liberty as the inmates of hotel
hnf in Uaria hlU haha "a thafnGal with bo
consideration and good breeding of invited
quests