The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-27
Helen Gould.

Helen Gould.
the place Helen Gould now holds
IN me esteem ut the republic eXsm.
plities how quickly the nations
heafi respoLds TO tie touch of geu-
tlrhess.
Years Def re Miss Gould's name
became associated throughout the
country with charity, she was doing
her part In trying To make a world
happier. Every summer she was
hostess to scores OF poor children,
who were guests at one of the two
Gould summer homes; littls people
with pluched, wan faces, and Grip
pied children from the tenemeLts,
we've taken 10 that home and enter
talned. They came in relays, "a new
company arriving CGce IN two weeks,
the lumber Of children this given a
taste OF heaven Oh earth being limi-
ted only by the capacity of the Gould
Residence. This was her first, and,
L am TO d, her tavorlte charity, and
at this moment Miss Gould is enter.
tanning scores OF little friends.
And she gets her eward in eyes
made bright, in cheeks made rudy,
in the "God bless you'll" that falls
from the lips of grateful parents.
All winter long, instead of closing
"Woodycrest'' and waiting for the
summer sunshine to bring about a
return of her charitable opportuni-
ties, Miss Gould has kept in the
place running at full expense. Dur
ing the winter she herself occupies
her town residence. Ordinarily she
would not keep Woodycrest" open
longer than Thanksgiving Day, but
in the winter just past fifteen small
boys were entertained for six months.
SIX OF these were cripples, and nine
were sound OF limD. Though it re-
! CURED many servants and consider
able bother, am told that the little
guests were given as much consider
alton as the same number of grown
pt ople would have received. They
had nurses and physicians for those
who needed them, goveTnesses and
instructors for those who we're well.
All remained until the influx of the
summer guests a few weeks ago.
A business man looks for results.
What impressed me most with Miss
Gould's work was the visible, tan
gible results. Every dollar spent
by her seemed to go, straight as a
bail, to some mark. Miss
Gould has business head, and is
not hv sterical in her work. She
gives, but follows the gift and sees
! that it goes to the spot. She has
studied results and knows which
charity pays premium in smiles,
and tears, and Joy, and better life,
and very little of her money will be
wasted in impracticable schemes.
She has a happy faculty of getting
in actual touch with conditions, re
alizing that she cannot hit an object
near at hand by aiming at star.
Miss Gonld's practical business
sense was beautifully exemplified at
MoDtauk Point. Hundreds of SOL
diers from the hospitals in Cuba and
Porto Rico were suddenly unloaded
there. Elsewhere were government
supplies, - tents and cots and
rations,-but there the sick soldiers
were without shelter, were hungry.
bad no medicine, and were sleeping
on the ground.
Why? Because of red tape. This
young lady appeared in person ana
amazed the strutters in shoulder
straps and the slaves to discipline
by having the sick soldier boys made
comfortable on army cots, placed in
army tents, and fed on army
ratIons,-and this, too, without any
| ''rt QUESTION: She grasped situa-
ton, cut the ropes Of theory and in
troduced Practice. From her own
purse she provided nurses and dain-
ties, and bundled up scores of soldier
boys and sent them to her beautiful
villa on the Hudson.
The camp rang with this refrain
You're the angel of the camp,
Helen Gould,
| In the sun-rays, in the damp,
| On the weary, weary tramp,
To our darkness yon're a lamp,
Helen Gould.
Thoughts of home and gentle things,
Helen Gould,
To the camp your coming brings;
| All the place with music rings
a the rustic of your wings,
Helen Gould. ,
will not attempt TO specify the
numerous projects of charity that
have been given life and vigor by
Miss Gould. / know her gifts in
recent years have passed the million
dollar mark.
| Would you have an idea of her
personality
| IF SO think of q cOOd vonno MON, q >,