The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

the children take away TarIeton bags | filled with nuts and fruit. and with a crisp one dollar bill folded at the bot tom.
 Last winter Mrs. James L. Kerno- chan was in mourning and early on Christmas day she drove over to the
 poor house near the estate followed by
 surrey filled with packages She
 gave the aged poor the most sensible and gratifying gifts. The old men re- ceived pipes with enough tobacco to last a year. and the women had knitted shawls and mittens.
 Mrs. Konochans practical charity
 Is in contrast to that of another veal
 thy woman, sometimes known as the
 most exclusive woman in America"
 Last Christmas she sent to the poor
 of the village near which her country
 house stands, hot house melons and
 French artichokes. The story runs
 that several upstate housewives made
 the strange melons into pies. thinking they were new sort of pumpkin. The Vanderbilt women are little
 known for their charities Mrs. Corr
 nelius Vanderbilt gives vaudeville
 show for several orphanages in the Bronx and provides genuinely good
 programme. Mrs. William K. Wander
 bilt, Jr., takes part in all the Long
 Island bazars and entertainments. Mrs. Reginald and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt
 are identified with charities in New port.
 | The many members of the Dodge, Phelps and Stokes families are busy on Christmas day. They have built up several "settlements' in the East Side, and at the University Settlement
 grand entertainment Is given every Christmas. All the neighborhood att tends and the concert programme is provided by distinguished musicians.
 Miss Melissa Stokes has as many in- terests in the East Side any woman | in the wealthy class. Another woman who sees that Christmas Is bright day for the East Side poor Is Mrs. Isi- dor Wormser, the bankers wife who has a long list of worthy families on | her list.
 The three churches in Garrison, N l Y, are practically supported by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and the Sunday Schools are entertained on Christmas with well laden trees. Mrs. Fish and her daugh- | ter Miss Marion, often appear and empty their gold purses for the child
 ren. Mrs. Fish believes that children should be amused and his vaudeville artists on hand for this purpose. Mrs. Eldridge T. Gerry engages all the Punch and Judy shows to be had and sends them down to East Side
 halls. SO thousands of children on Decembeer 25th shriek with laughter. thanks to Mrs. Gerry.
 Randolph Guggenheimer's Christi | mas dinner to newsboys is one of the | fixtures in New York. and Frank Till- | ford of Rye Manor always has a | Christmas dinner for poor children | in New York and Rye.
 Mrs. Russell Sage has many chari- table irons in the fire. and working .t..u, @tN NAA N-.A N 2lN | holidays she has entertainments for | them and few women pass as much time in personal visits as Mrs. Sage. No list of charitable women would | be complete without the name of Miss
 Leary. the picturesque spinster. who devotes so much of her time to wo-
 men who are i'll. Miss Leary has per
 suaded her smart friends to send flow CTS after every entertainment to the hospitals, and on Christmas morning Miss Leary brightens many charity l patient in the city hospital by plants | or boxes of flowers.
 Before her marriage to William R. | Wilcox, Miss Martha Havemeyer gave | up much of her time to her proteges
 in the slums. Her fathers enormous | fortune was at her command. and she herself gave children's parties on Eas- 1 ter, Thanksgiving and Christmas for l the Italians. Miss Havemeyer became
 a sort of saint in the eyes of those chill | dren. Another young matron who is I noted in this work Is Mrs. John Me- Cullough. formerly Miss Anna Dodge.
 MT. and Mrs. Hamilton Mckay | Twombly and their daughters are the boon of the Italian colonies near Nor ristown, N. J. The Christmas parties they give for the little aliens are ar ranged by Mir Twombly's agents, but
 the result Is none the less gratifying. Mrs Adolf Ladenberg believes in
 brightening the lives of children. and
 besides giving money to organizations.
 she buys toys and donates them sec
 retly to poor children who live near
 her country home at Westbury.
 I Although the Astors give bountifully
 to the large charities. they do little
 personal work. Mrs. Astor. like Mrs. I Clement c. Moore. gives the servants
 in her home the most amazingly cost | ly Christmas gifts.