The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-09
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It is rather interesting TO notc the
direction OF the charities OF certain well
known women. 1t is a creche which
especially appeals to one. a hospital for
crippled children 10 another. Mrs. r..
I. Lounsbery. for instance, has atcndeF-
ness for suffering children, and many
donations from her find their way to the
hospitals.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt supports two
beds in Bellevue hospital.
Mrs. Calvin Brice was the pioneer
president OF the DOrcas Library for
Young Girls in Thirty.second street.
Mrs. W. D. Sloane has given nobly to
charity, the Sloane Maternity hospital
is her lasting monument She often
appears among the cots at the hospital,
distributing flowers and fruit.
Mrs. arthur ". Dodge is actively in.
tereSted in pretty charity. OF which l
believe she is one Of the founders, the
Virginia Day Nursery on Eighth street.
Mrs. Russell Sage's subscriptions to
hospital work are always generous.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is very syste.
matte in her charities, and causes all
needy cases which come to her notice
TO be investigated, and gives help
where it is deserved.
Mrs. j. Pierpont Morgan takes an &C.
tive part in the many charitable organ
izations connected with st. Georges
church. One OF her notable deeds IS
yearly feast given to the three hundred
members OF the Girls Friendly society.
-ppeR-these occasions Pinard serves the
supper, Lander furnishes the music
and everything is on quite as grand
scale as when Mrs. Morgan entertains
the immortal Four Hundred, or rather
the One Hundred and Fifty.
Mrs. Frederick w. Vanderbilt visits
hospitals, makes gifts to prisoners and
teaches in a mission Sunday school
Mrs. Vanderbilt is very sweet and ut
terly unostentatious in her way OF do
ing things.
ing tho winter, spends the morning at
the Christian Association for Young
Women. She usually assists thelibrar-
ian at such times.
Mrs. Elliott F. shepard's pet charity
is the Margaret Louise Home, which
she has built in connection with the
Christian Association.
Mrs. w. II. Vanderbilt has built
fine mission house to be used in con-
nection with st. Bartholomew church.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt gave the Pro-
testant sisterhood Of ST. Mary's a coun-
try house for poor children at Islip, l..
l., not far from her own country home.
Mrs Grover Cleveland's pet charity
is q mission garden on First avenue,
Of which Mrs. Richard Watson Glider
is the president Mrs. Cleveland gives
the children food and clothing, and is
altogether as delightful as any Lady
Bountiful eau be.
Miss Coddlngton, Of New York, has
given the City Mission $4,000 for the
building and endowment OF boys
club house for the poor boys Of the
city.
Mrs. Ernestine SchafTner, OF No 20
West Fiftieth street, has fairly earned
the title OF "The Prisoners Friend"
Mrs. Robert w. Chaplin is interested
in babies hospitals.
Mrs. Lamadrld founded the St. An
drew's coffee stands.
Mrs. Frank White the beautiful
widow, ia a regular visitor at Bellevue
Hospital.
Mrs. John Archbold is frequent
visitor at different hospitals.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould supports cot
at the Sunnyside Day Nursery and two
at the Babies Shelter Poor, sick and
crippled children appeal strongly to
her sympathies.
Mrs. Alma @. Johnson's charity has
become very popular one, known as
the Society OF Little Mothers"
Among other ladies actively interested
in this charity are Mrs. William Tod
Helmuth, Mrs. Henry Herman and
Mrs. J. S. White.
Miss Iselin and Miss Potter, daughter
Of Bishop Potter, devote much of their
leisure to the interests OF the working
girls. They give talks to the girls on
practical cooking, homework, dress
making and the wisdom Of economy,
neRtness and temperance. A little
more interest Of this sort from the re-
fined young women OF New York
would be the .salyation of our shop
girls.
Mrs. c. P. Huntington uses great
deal OF her wealth in a most beneticent
way for the good OF her fellow creatures
and womankind in particular.
Mrs. D. w. Bishop has done much in
the way OF establishing sewing schools.
Mrs, Edwin @. Stanton provides
summer home for little folks rear her
own country homo ut Great Neck, l. /.
Mrs Theodore Bronson is one OF the
active members OF a cooking school for
young girls.
Mrs Annie Louise Cary RAYMOND
hospital, besides fitting up rooms for
the general use Of the paiients. She
spends her spare time knitting warm
shawls for for poor old women.
The benefactions OF Ellen Terry, the
English actress, takes this practical
turn also, and her friends, when paying
her calls, are requested to tako up the
needles and help on the good work.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has the old
fashioned idea OF dividing the favors OF
the gods. Whenever her publishers
send her check she smuggles coin
for sweet charity's sake, either for a
babess shelter or Tor child's hos
pital.
Mrs. William Amory Is one OF New
Nork's many fine and fashionable ladies
who fulfill every social duty and at the
same timo live sweet, unseltish lives.
Her chief interest in life is her phlan-
thropic work. AS head OF babies
shelter, or croche, deal of distress