Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-07-28

hospital is indebted to her sisterin-
law, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, for
the nurses hall and the new wing for
private cases. Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont
and Mrs. Joseph H. Choate devote
their charitable energies to the Pres
byterian hospital. Mrs. Belmont has
also given 500, 900 to the Nassau hos
pital at Mineola, L. 1, Mrs. Ambrose
Kingsland and Mrs. Edward King give
their time and financial assistance to
the Children's Day nursery. Mrs.
Charles Marshall, Mrs. Kingsland,
Mrs. Ernest F1agg, Miss Catherine
Cameron, Mrs. Charles e. Lawrence,
Mrs. g. A. Irving, Mrs. Courtlandt An
able and Miss Low run the only insti.
tuition of its kind in the United States
the Home for the Children Of Desti-
tute Seamen.
On the other hand, Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, who was Miss Ger
trude Vanderbilt, spends much of her
time in helping poor struggling young
women with artistic tastes to make
themselves self-supporting. Mrs.
Whitney is herself a sculptor of great
talent.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay's hobby is
the lettering Of the educational facil-
tiles for children. She Is also ire.
m~endously interested in the suffrage
movement.
Junior League Work.
Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey, who was
Miss Mary Hartman up to a. few days
ago, is devoted to the work Of the
Junior league. This labors among the
peer children of the slums and Is es-
pecially interested in raising money
to provide dental clinics for the chill
dren of the poor. Mrs. Rumsey has
also equipped a ferryboat and given it
to the Red Cross committee of Brook
Ign to be used in the fight against
tuberculosis. 1t accommodates 800
patients, takes them out on the wa
ter, gives them the much-needed fresh
air and provides three nourishing
meals a day.
With Mrs. Rumsey in the Junior
league work is Miss Dorothy Whitney,
who inherited a large fortune from her
father, the late William G. Whitney.
Her other pet charity Is the founding
Of diet kitchens for the poor. She
Is also interested in the fight for equal
suffrage.
Other young women of society have
other ways for aiding charity. Many
Of them act, dance or sing. Chief
among them is Mrs. Courtlandt D.
Barnes who was Miss Katherine L.
Barney. She is aver ready to give her
time and energies to charity.
For INDECENT Children.
Many Of the> prominent women of
New York society are interested in
the Little Mothers Aid association.
one Of the most beautiful charities of
the city 1t tries to care for INDECENT
children in an intelligent way. 1t
provides outing for hundreds during
the summer and maintains two club
houses all the year round. Entertain
ments where a nice meal is not the
least conspicuous part are a feature
and at Christmas hundreds Of baskets
of provisions are given to those in
dire need Of a little human comfort.
Clothing, too, IL given to the poorly
clad. Some Of the women interested
In this work are Mrs. Charles e.
Sprague, Mrs. Henry Siegel, Mrs. w.
H. Oakley, Jr.; Mrs. John p. Latin
and Mrs. F. A. Hackley.
st. Johns guild, through its floating
hospitals and its shore hospital at
New Dorp, Staten Island, has UNI
doubtedly saved more lives of chill
dren than any institution Of the kind
in the world. It is A years old-this
great work. 1t has taken for an out
ing more than a million and a half of
ailing little ones from their furnace
like rear rooms Of tenements. Creed,
color and nationality are ignored. It
runs three boats with a combined ca
pacity of 1900 passengers. Leading
women in this enterprise are Mrs.
William B. Coster. Mrs. A. d. Juilliard.
Miss Gould, Mrs. Seth Barton French,
Mrs. Samuel s. Blood and Miss Dur
ham. Il
Indeed, as Mr.. Martin justly says,
society Is not all given over to bridge.
and cocktails and monkey dinners, for.
these very women mentioned here are
part and parcel Of New York society.