The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-22
Health of Big Hearted Young
Woman Failing.
WHAT SHE HAS DONE
Labors Have 0ut-Done Car
negie by Thousand Fold.

hard in the interest of her many philan-
thropic projects, they say, and must
cease all these activities for a while.
She may ride in the park, enjoy the So
ciety of her friends and entertain her
self pleanantly, but if she would ward
off physical breakdown she must for
get for a time the manifold enterprises
for the betterment of humanity in which
she has been engaged.
Miss Gould, with a staff of devoted
secretaries and personal attendants with
limitIess wealth for the purchase of as
much assistance as she desires with a
future and a full and contented present,
has yet been unable to avoid that penalty
of the strenuosity Of woman, that nervous
overstrain which preys upon all of her
sex and makes them so much less capable
than mere man to withstand the wear
and tear of life.
That she needs a rest is therefore not
remarkable. The only remarkable part
Of it is that the need has not been felt
before. She has been able to do so much
work so quietly and so steadily because
of her possession of qualities unusual in
woman, but in spite of her ability to
conduct great things quietly she has for
a brief moment succumbed to that trait
of the feminine nature-call it sympathy
temperament Or what you wilI-which
makes woman's work, especially if il
arouses her emotional feeling "a constant
strain upon her nervous force.
Miss Gould's labors have not been light
ones. The proper management of her
mail alone is tremendous piece of work,
and, although she employs a number of
secretaries, sometimes as many as seven
at one time, there are an infinite number
of questions which must have her per-
sonal decision
She probably receives more begging let
ters than any other woman in the United
States. and one days mail alone contains
more than enough narrowing tales TO
provide an entire ladies aid society with
a years work. In one week Miss Gould
received requests from begging letter
writer's form sums amounting to $500,
600, which they desired to expend in var
ious projects that were to make their
fortunes. This is nothing. unusual, and
was only noted because it was one occa-
sion on which any effort was made to
But the correspondence of a rich and
generous woman is only a small item in
the demands on her attention. The beg
ging letter writer supplements his writ
ten requests by calls, and, although he
is not received, he sends up by the butler
many sad stories which must be given
hearing lest one really worthy and needy
might be turned starving from the door.
His ranks are augmented by the aims
asker of higher standing who comes in
dorsed by a personal acquaintance and to
whom some attention must be paid for
courtesys sake he philanthropic work
er also appears demanding-and getting
hearing for a few and deserving words
or old and tottering charity.
In this class of the days work rank
also the calls to attend charitable and
philanthropic meetings of all kinds, to
address schools, church societies. insti-
tutions and societies on anniversary days
to lend name and fame to bazaars and
sales for the benefit of good works, to
pour tea at settlements and asylums on
gala occasions. to work as committees OF
conventions for the furtherance of rights
and to organize public protests against
wrongs.
Once launched on her career of philan-
thropist this was the work Miss Gould
found the community had cut out for her
In the midst of these numerous demands
equally pressing equally pitiable, she
has been able to work out for herself an
individual line of effort.
As Miss Gould is herself intensely pa
triotic Purtanical. conservative. unshak-
en- yany modern questioning of the old
American ideals of right and wrong, SC
has she endeavored, perhaps unconscious
ly, to foster these traits in the commun-
ity and all her more individual efforts
have been in this direction.
1t was in line with these very strong
personal convictions that Miss Gould
gave money 70 the government during the
Spanish-American war.
She is the one American woman who
has ever given money TO the United
States government for military purposes
on May. Il. 1S9S, her check for 10000
to be used for war purposes, was for
warded 10 congress. The gift is directly
in accord with the military traits of hel
character Believing in the justice OF the
( Spanish-American war. she proceeded L
uphold the government by every means IL
her power II is the one incident in hel
career Of giving which makes her in
diyiduality strongly felt She was eagel
to show her loyalty = the government
and her interest IN the American arms
Not only by money gifts direct to con
sress did she propose TO do this She be
came the leading spirit in the Woman
War Relief Association In this orsaniza
ton she was the power behind tbs
throne. Her generosity and. 10 an ever
greater degree her business ability made
that voluntary organization almost as ef-
fcient and far reaching in its efforts e
care for The sick soldiers who passed
through New York as the government il
SELF could have been had ned tape not ties
its hands
Having made this War Relief Associa
ton business organization. Mss Could
found out what needed 10 be done ard
did IL with a quiCkness which n com
harrison with the relief work OF the gov
eminent and other relief associations
seemed magical The association did ths
work when that was possible. and Wher
II was not Miss Gould did q; individually
When Nontauk IVES AT its worst. sh'
F tclerraphed To Mrs. Z. =. Nalworth
the president OF the War Relief Associa
ton and its representative camp 70 cra~
or her for * 90 II vas the ore thinz
+ needed. Every one else even The ries
women. were trying % raise funds
/ She simply gave them
/ That was her method throughout N.
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