Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-08-06

splendid Maternity hospital. st. Luke's
hospital is indebted to her sister-in-
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 100000 to the Nassau hos
pital at Mineola, L. I. 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 Flagg, Miss Catherine
Cameron, Mrs. Charles E. Lawrence,
Mrs. G. A. Irving Mrs. Courtlandt An
able and Miss Low run the only insti-
tuition of it's kind in the United States
the Home for the Children of Desti-
tute Seamen.
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 sculptor of great
| talent.
Mrs Clarence Mackay's hobby is
the lettering of the educational facil-
tiles for children. She is also ire
mendously interested in the suffrage
| movement
Junior League Work.
Mrs. Charles Cary 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 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 large fortune from her
| father, the late William C. 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 ever 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 feature
and at Christmas hundreds of baskets
of provisions are given to those in
dire need of little human comfort
Clothing, too, is 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 al
New Dorp, Staten Island. has un
doubtedly saved more lives of chill
} dren than any institution of the kind
in the world. 1t 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
J like rear rooms of tenements- Greed
color and nationality are ignored L
runs three boats with combined ca
: pacity of 5000 passengers Leading
} women in this enterprise are Mrs
William B. Coster, Mrs A D. Juilliard
J Miss Gould, Mrs Seth Barton French
: Mrs. Samuel s. Blood and Miss Dur
: ham
Indeed. as Mr.. Martin justly says
; society is not all given over to bridg'
and cocktails and monkey dinners, 10
these very women mentioned here ar
: part and parcel Of New York society