Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE Is. 1912
HOW MILLIONAIRES GIVE
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easy to get hold of as the men of their rank;
but when a woman is once thoroughly con-
WINGED and aroused, there is nothing she will
not do for her pet charity. She may be less
catholic in her benefactions than man, but
is likely almost to bankrupt herself for line
of work that appeals strongly to her.
1t is no secret to call attention to the in
spring examples set by Miss Helen NJ.
Gould and Miss Grace Dodge; and it would
be interesting to know how far ahead of
their current incomes they sometimes pledge
themselves for Young Women's Associations
and other attractive philanthropic projects
The popularity of Miss Gould is perhaps
greater than that of any other woman in
charitable work, and she is famous from the
Women's College on the banks of the Bos-
porus to the decks of Uncle Sans warshpS
and home again. She has placed her sex
under extraordinary obligations to her for
educational and recreational opportunities.
This is true in more limited degree of
other wealthy women. In New York city
the gifts of Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson and
few other devoted people have been of the
utmost help to Barnard College, enabling it
to take high rank among wornen's universe
ties. The higher education of women and
men in California has been largely furthered
by the munificent gifts of Mrs, Leland Stan
The widening scope of women's pililan-
thropic work is illustrated by Mrs Sloanes
founding of the Maternity Hospital. The
millions devoted by Mrs. Sage for the inn
provement of living conditions among tene-
ment jewellers doubtless gave the impetus
to many other excellent projects. A notable
example is the Shively Apartment Houses
erected on the upper East Side of New York
by Mrs. William K Vanderbilt for the spe-
cial benefit of poor families afflicted with
tuberculosis tendencies.
TN attempting to enlist the aid of women in
charities, good deal can be done by
means of correspondence. This must be fol-
lowed up by telephone and personal calls,
especially in cases where the recipients are
social favorites and are pressed for time.
One soon finds that their hours are nearly as
much taken up as those of business men.
"You may telephone me at nine in the
morning, or after luncheon at two" volun-
teered an attractive young matron, whose
days | found were pretty well given over
to the Music School Settlement, the Speed
well Country Homes for Children, and the
Charity Society.
One must be prepared to call on short no
tice. A young woman whose father is at the
head of large hotels in Philadelphia and New
York telephoned one afternoon that she
would like me to drop in and see her about
the league at six o'clock. This obliged me
to forgo an invitation to dinner.
ayes, the society is doing lovely work;
but I'm going to be married this spring and
must cut down my charities she laughed,
and wrote out scented check for twenty
five dollars.
The league for several years had as treas
urer young woman, said to be worth fifty
thousand dollars a year in her own right.
She had even made money in her invest
ments. During all this time the society ex-
perienced the customary chronic deficits,
and the president or director had gone to her
with all sorts of hints, but without avail
Not cent was forthcoming.
As one of my duties was to try and break
the charm that seemed to keep her money
beyond our reach, called on her and spoke
of some of the new supporters secured for
the work. After considerable meditation this
heiress volunteered to start her career as a
philanthropist by gift of twenty-five dollars!
The shrewdness of women in promoting
their individual charities is proverbial In the
course of call on woman whose daughter
subsequently married the son of a former
President of the United States, collected
her customary gift of one hundred dollars to
the league, and then found myself listening
to what her Childrens Society was doing.
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