Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-17
A Woman Who


iFrom Womans Home Companion)
Charles Lamb Ia one Of his lively
ESSAYS on Popular Fallacics' dem
onstiaies that Il Is perfectly proper
even laudabc, TO look a glft horse IN
the mouth Certainly the American
people avail themselves OF this priv
llcge IN respect To- the huge gift horses
of our -millionaires. While Eu-
rope Is lost In admiration at the latest
evidence OF the generosity OF some
one of our kings Of finance. the Amer
can public suspiclously pokes the
giit with stick asking. Where did
he get re- Is % any good? Is there a
string to g.? Us 30 restitution, bribery
or advertising?
But no such questions have ever
been raised In reference to any gilt
OF Miss Helen Gould For her there
| Is nothing but affection, And his Ia
because all know how modestly and
without desire for any sort of personal
advantage she has devoted herself,
not to cold charity, but to warm
hearted kindness. As someone has
said, she brings gifts. she doesn't send
them. She loves humanity not in the
labstract and al distance, but close
at hand. She holds her own unbound
lea liberality as hut small In compari-
son with that OF many. who. with 1T
tie money 10 offer, give their lives to
social service.
Her Home Was a Hospital.
When the liremen OF New York vOt-
ed her their characteristic present. q
fre.line badge. Il was not so much be-
causc OF generous financial aid as ia
recognition Of the fact that az the time
o. the terrible Windsor hotel fire, she
first OF all the neighboring residents
threw open her doors and converted
her beautiful Filth avenue mansion IN
10 an emergency hospital
| When the veterans Of the Spanish
War gave the marching salute az they
saw her face az her window, ii was
not by way OF acknowledgment Of q
check for 100000 to the war depart
ment, or of another for $4,000 to the
Womans Relief association, or even
lof many smaller gifts TO save the fam
il.es OF soldiers from want, but IN
recognition OF personal visits to Camp
Wikoif and the carloads Of fruits ana
medical supplies that followed them
Admiral Dewey has said III the
men on the American battioships had
their way, there would be a statue OF
Helen Gould on every fighting craft
that flies the Stars and Stripes"
Built a Sailors Clubhouse.
Shortly after the Spanish war Miss
Gould In confidential chat with q
igroup OF "jackles" learned from them
that one OF their chief troubles was
ttsh aahars hoA hmm
but the saloons. The very next day
she planned the s450000 sailors home
that now stands near the Brooklyn
navy ward. the finest sailors ciut
house I'm the world a genuiSe per-
sonal interest flayors AL she does
The working girls and working wo
men who are Invited To spend week.
az her splendid estate, LyndhuTst
lneGr irving ou-tho Hudson, come OF
terms OF frank comradeship, She has
. en- lmpulsiva, unconscious way o.
"motherlng" n tired guest with littl'
d comforts instead Of ringing for an az
/ tcudant 90 perform every small serV
! lice The graduates OF the "Lyndhursi
1 Sewing school as her sewing ant
Z cooking classes arc called, receive
e. 4 their diplomas from her hand at re-
cemlon ON the lawns OF I.yndhurst
Last year there were 420 az Mis-
Could girls" and there viii prob
, ably be more in 1912
4 The little inmates OF her home 10
b sick and crippled children at Woody
/. crest. "Hclens Babies have learnel
q TO look forward 10 her visits, for SIN
takes them driving and tells ther
. stories. One OF her most characters
+ tic benefactlons Is the endowment q
+. two cots IN another children's home
FOR the two most urinlereatln
- babies
Is Miss Gould Is q small, dark-hairel
IS swoetfaced young woman, addicted 9
- Quiet. tailormade gowns of black q
II gray. She has an easy viyaclou
s. manner and a girish laugh, is fond
horseback rldlng-and Is afraid e
10 thunder she is rather pleasantly old
D fashioned There is nothing new q
startling In her earnest phrase,