The National tribune., 1907-12-26

women are growing better and more
unselfish all the time, and feeling more
keenly all the time, too, the RESPONSE
bility resting upon them to lift up and
help those less fortunate than they. But
we need more Maud Ballington Booths.
The old men spoke of her as if she
were saint. Could any of the saints
of sacred history show a more beauti-
full, unselfish or useful life than she?
The year just passing has been un-
equaled in the annals of history in the
generous gifts made by our rich men
and women to the cause of philanthro-
ply, education, etc John d. Rockefel-
Ter heads the list with something more
than S63,553.00O to his credit, given to
various good causes. Mr.. Carnegie has
given about S9,000,000; Henry c. Frick,
of Pittsburg, over s10,000,000: A. B.
Widener. of Philadelphia, $4,000, 900;
Pierpont Morgan over S1,000,000, and
so on. Among the women Mrs. Russell
Sage stands first, her gifts amounting
to S13,SS0,000, but while none have CIV
en- as large sum as she, many have
been most liberal, Miss Anne T. Jeanes,
of Philadelphia, donating s2,312.1OS:
Mrs. Galland, of New Haven. $1,000, 600,
and Mrs. H. A. Currier, of Manchester.
n. H, s1.000,000 In all it is estimated
that S121,256,973 has been given away
by these 1iberal-minded men and wo-
men, who have been more fortunate in
the possession of this worlds goods
than most of u.s. over one-fifth of this
vast sum being contributed by women.
OF this s121,356,973, s61,737,257 has
been given for educational purposes;
$7,SS2,5 500 for hospitals, homes and asy-
lumS; miscellaneous charities, S15,1S6,-
800: galleries, museums, societies, S22,-
161,770; churches, Y. NJ. C. A. and
home missionaries, s6,265. 900; libraries,
$2,132, 900, etc. Besides all this money
given, many people have contributed
land for various purposes, and in addi-
ton to the large sums to be used for the
benefit of American institutions gener-
Gus contributions have been sent out
of the country to help along other good
causes. 1t would seem as if there need
be no legislation to restrain the growth
of fortunes if the possessors of them
are going to keep them cropped in this
fashion for the good of the country and
humanity.
Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French
woman, who will go down to spOsterity
as perhaps the greatest emotional OF
| tragic actress of her period, kept her.
| self for many years very much in the
public eye by her eccentricities of char
acter. She was the despair of her man.
~ w
she might refuse to appear in a play
or. indeed break a contract, and the
| fits of rage in which she INDUCED when
ever things did not please her were not
/ only frightful to behold, but aroused
the liveliest concern lest she die in one
AS wilful as a spoiled child and as eX-
acting, she led most of those who came
in contact with her, in, her private as
well as her professional life, a dance
| indeed. Her strange and unusual tastes
notions and actions afforded the curious
public with no end of entertainment
Her latest cscapade was the favOrite
topic of conversation in Paris, and
what will she do next?" on every
tongue. 1t was thought she could &C
no further, when her active brain
searching the realm of the bizZare fol
suggestion, evolved the grewsome no
ton of sleeping in her own coffin, which
unpleasant idea she actually carried out
At one time when playing in England
she visited Cross's Zoo, and tried tC
purchase from the proprietor two lions
Failing in this. she bought wolf dog
a chetah and six chameleons, being al
ready the possessOr of a parrot an(
monkey. On one occasion she hat
Paris gasping for breath when it be.
came known that she had gone off il
balloon, and this in the days when 6
balloon was a decidedly unknown ant
dangerous quantity. Nine. Bernhard
may not have been averse to the at
tention she attracted, and perhaps went
! a little further sometimes than she