New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-03
QUEER REQUESTS
Fund to Help Poor Girls 10
Wed.
by ". W. Mount.

That MARRIAGE is the definite goal OF
woman in India was evidently the convic-
ton of the late Naoroj Wadia, a wealthy
shiDbuiIder o; Bombay, who has Just De
ouea.bed q large fund to assist poor g1ris
into the estate of matrimony. The $1,000
On0 left to Indian charities and the $loO'oo'
scattered 20 beggars at the funeral OF the
kindly disposed Naoroj Wadfa have not
awakened half the interest that this tund
for portion!ess girls has done in lana
where a single woman is looked upon with
contempt and a widow with scorn-
Young man of Philadelphia was pos
sessed of morbid generosity when he made
a will devising $4,000 to Miss Elizabeth
Croskey, of the Quaker City. and then
committed suicide because that young
woman had spoken scornfuliy OF MS at
tentions The wedding of the fair legatee
followed a few days after the funeral OF
the testatcr.
Thirty-five years ago Sarah Marsh, OF
Caldwell, n j., bequeathed to her nephew
Stephen Marsh q Bible This legatee has
not explained his reason for opening the
book recently, but he loudly expressed MS
establishment at the sAS67 80 which ne
found laid between the leaves and MS re-
greet that he had not read that Bible years
ago.
Evidently good liver was man at
Burnham, England, who willed fund SUI
iicient to provide the inmates OF the poor
house of the parish with a Christmas din
ner, accompanied with a proper supply
of ale toba eco and snuff forever.
One Henry Green exhibited more famili-
arity with the pardonable foibIes of women
when he provided in his will that on or
before December q every year four green
waist coats, lined with green galloon lace,
should be delivered to four poor women,
who were expected TO wear this fnery on
Christmas Day
A certain New York man, some time
gone to his reward adopted a curious way
OF discovering charitaDy inclined persons.
II own" stated he In his will, "seventy-one
pairs of trousers. and I strictly entoin my
executors to hold a public sale, at which
these shall be sold to the highest bidder and
the proceeds distributed to the poor of the
city I further desire that these garments
shall in no way be examined or meddled
with, but be disposed of as they are found
at the time of my death; and no one pur-
chaser shall buy more than one pair" New
York has probably never known such an
other trousers sale. and certainly never
discovered in a pocket of the trousers a
thousand dollars III banknotes.
It is no uncommon thing to hear that
woman is worth her weight in gold" but
to be worth her weight IN banknotes falls to
the lot of few. Two Scotch lassies enjoyed
this distinction when they We're weighed, N
accordance with the wishes expressed In
their fathers will. and received in bank
notes the various sums of $4,000 and
$4,000.
Possibly the widow OF prominent Amer
lean was as much to be envied, for the ex-
ecutors Of her husbands will were directed
to pay to her every year her own weight
in gold. True to her feminine vanity, the
widow never attempted to increase her
weight but exercised thrift in another man.
ner She added TO the sum of her heritage
by charging an admission fee to those OF
the public who desired to witness the cere-
mony of weighing. Human inquistfveness
Is such that numbers were always ready to
for ,.iy-