Arizona republican., 1903-04-11
FULL HEART AND POCKET.B0OK
Mrs. Jane Lathrop stanford's Gener-
Gus Gifts to the University.

"A millionaire and his money are soon
parted should be the amended form OF
the proverb in these days OF strenuou.
giving as we'll as strenuous living
among modern money kings. In the
race to lose wealth for the benefit Of
the community few endowers of phil
anthropic institutions have outdone
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. widow or
Senator Leland Stanford. who is about
to retire from the active control OF
Stanford university, California, as soon
as necessary changes in the law can he
effected.
Mrs. Stanford has given more money
to the cause of education than any
other woman of her day and generation.
Here in the east, in connection with her
name, little but the Stanford university
is heard Of In San Francisco, how
ever, 100000 of her money have been
spent to establish kindergartens, and ii
her carefully concealed private bene-
factions, whose amount, it is said, will
never be known, it may easily be as
sumed that educational gifts compose
an important part. In Albany, N. Y,
where Mrs. Stanford was born just AZ
the nineteenth century struck the
chimes of it's first quarter, she built.
nearly a dozen years ago, free hos
pital for children at a cost of 100000.
and endowed it with the gift OF an
equal sum.
The story of Stanford university's
cause for being is a familiar and a pa
thetie one. To be born, to live sixteen
brief years, and then to die. is appar
70 mic oil oIa of afi11n
all excuse for life at all. But the
grieving parents of Leland Stanford.
Jr, nobly determined that this should
not be SO with their dead son, and the
5000 or more students who, since the
opening in 1901 of the university, have
received Il free education there, have
taken the gift from a vanished hand,
and answered the call of a voice tina,
was still.
Since her husbands death, Mrs. Stan.
ford has given millions to the univer.
sity as freely as one might pluck flow
ers out of a garden to lay on q grave,
and in the same spirit. Her personal
allowance under her husbands will,
was $1,000 a month. In 1896 she asked
that this be cut down to $4,000, and in
1898 to $1,000, simply saying: II find
this enough for my needs" Tho
amounts thus renowned went into tho
endowment fund of the institution. Her
gift in 1901 of property valued at $780,
600, 900 was three times greater than any
ever before given by one person to an
educational establishment.
Mrs. Stanford'o generosity is of tho
type sung in Sir Launftal," which
gives itself with the gift" A very
pretty story is told of her during the
days when her husband, the wealthy
California senator, kept open house in
Washington. Some busybody privately
demonstrated with Mrs. Stanford fo,,
the unquestioning welcome for any ono
and every one on reception days.
Il have positive knowledge said the
friend, that women department clerks.
people you never met or saw. slip In.
secrete little dainties in their pockets
for the children at home
Thank you for telling me- was the
dgnified reply. 1T rejoices my heart
to think that if any tired, hard working
woman in Washington feels a longinS
to see grand function and taste deli
cacies she cannot afford to buy, she car:
do so in my house. And if she has little
ones at home she is struggling to sup
port, am glad to have her bring them
from the table of Jane Stanford some
crumbs of the feast spread for those
who far less need and appreciate it.
Philadelphia Press.