The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-08-23
Women With Too Much Money.

Il L MINE L, DIS wise men declare, As
the root of all evil then the devil
may have been the first banker.
But he was other than the evil one
related to the temptation in Eden, for
there is no record that Eve carried
either purse or script during her life
upon earth. For that matter, her
descendants for centuries cultivated
the land, raised focks and exchanged
produce among themselves without
ever seeing the color of a coin.
Our first recollection of money seems
to come with the visit of the Queen of
Sheba to King Solomon, because we
cannot disassociate the idea of money
from the lavish bestowal of gifts re-
corded, together with their value in
coin. These gifts may have enriched
the temple of Jerusalem, and perhaps
such intention was in the queens mind
when she brought them to Solomon.
Did the queen of Sheba live in Christ's
time and under the New Law, she
would have been admonished to sell
these gifts and give the proceeds to the
poor. AS it was, she acted only as
other rich women do in modern times,
who take queer notions about the dis
position of their wealth. The other
woman of note in ancient times with
too much wealth was Cleopatra. If
what she spent in order to dazzle the
vision of that infatuated Roman, Marc
Antony, was used in the purchase of
corn, it would have tfded over one of
those Egyptian famines we read about.
It's a long step from Egypt to Chi
cago and from Cleopatra to one of the
rich women of the empire city of in
land America. But we are writing
about the follies and foibles of women
with too much money; so time and dis
lance cut no figure. since woman has
been an enigma since the Creation and
will ever remain the same. Now, con-
corning this Chicago woman with too
much money-more than enough to
dress herself paint and powder her
self, give pink teas to other women
and otherwise make it known that she
is superior to those of her sex without
money.
The Chicago Tribune of recent date
announced the formal opening of a
"home for friendless dogs" The phil
anthropic idea of providing a hospital
for sick dogs originated in the brain
of a woman with too much money, and
her picture ornaments a page of the
Tribune 1t is announced in connection
with the opening of the dog hospital
and home" that stray and homeless
cats also viii be cared for later on.
No distinction of caste or pedigree will
be observed in the selection Of canine
or feline objects of Mrs. WIS philan-
thropy The yellow cur will be well
coined just as heartily as the spaniel,
and the cat that makes night hideous
will be cared for just as tenderly as the
Maltese tabby brought up at the hearth.
Sensible women with not so much
money will ask themselves what kind
of a heart beats in the bosom of this
Mrs. w. Has she no love for children,
no charity to bestow upon the aged
and infirm poor? The chances are that
she is not a mother-the demands of
modern society as we'll as the time
necessary to bestow on her notions of
philanthropy banishing all desire for
and removing all Inconvenience of ma
ternity. The glory for Mrs. W., how
ever, in the eyes of society consists in
this-she has originated new fad in
philanthropy" to take the place of
the worn-out charity of endowing hos
pitfalls and asylums for human beings.
Her home" for dogs and cats is the
talk of the town, her picture lin a
decolette gown appears in the great
daily paper, and the interest she has
excited brings other rich women to her
aid as board of directors in the dog
and cat hospital