The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18

Mrs. Hunter Mcclure. OF this city. and
her sister in law, Mrs. Hugh Mcguire
Of Alexandria The luncheon table
was arranged with "A bowl OF spring
flowers and Mrs. Clay invited To meet
the guests OF honor Mrs. Henry D.
Stevens. Mrs. y, X. Lawson, Mrs VIII
lis Wilder Miss Beckwth. Mrs NAL
Loeb. Mrs. Abram &. Reed and Mrs
j. c. LeHardy.
Or. Hugh Mcclure went to Savan-
nah on Saturday to Join Mrs. Mcclure
who IS the guest Of MIR. and Mrs. w
l.. Clay. In. and Mrs. Mcclure eX-
poet TO leave Savannah to-day for
Charleston. :. c. where they will
spend a few days. before returning to
Virginia. Mrs. Clay is expected in
Richmond this week.
At the Womnn's Club.
''Philanthropy" was the subjec, of
an interesting address made by Dr.
Walter l.. Lingle before the Woman's
club Yesterday afternoon. DR.. Lmgle
is man of very sterling and strong
personality. and the truths he pre-
scented TO his audience of wide inter
est He is native Of North Carolina.
ana occupies q chair at the Union
Theological Seminary here. and has
been prominently identified with phi
lanthropic work in the South Miss
Jane rutherford introduced the
speaker.
DR.. Lingle began his address by saw
ing that lie considered the business of
being woman the greatest business
i'll the world. and that he had not come
10 the club TO give an Grafton or read
hnished essay, but to have a heart :
to-heart talk. There is great need
in these days of straying from the
original meaning of things. that one
stop to define. or rather redefne. the
meaning of the word philanthropy. and
he made an interesting aggression in
giving the derivation and origin OF
the two Greek words that go to make
this word mean lover OF all mankind
In philanthropy ii is not simply Civ
ing money; it is the giving out of love
and self that must right the wrong
and smooth the rugged way. The Man
of Sorrows was the greatest phiInn-
thropist that ever lived. All of the
enormously wealthy people who dis
pense their millions to their fellow :
men are by no means all phlanthro-
piats: there must be a genuine love
for humanity back of the great gifts.
There are such vast opportunities. for
good to ones brother-man and sister
woman almost unlimited.
DIR. Lingle dwelt at length on the
| known and organized lines of philan-
thropfes. but urged the club to take as
their part in great philanthropic move
ments OF to-day some OF the neglected
and out loft hc-way channels. where
there is so much more need OF love
than there is OF the actual money. He
said that lie considered the working
girl the greatest moral and spiritual
problem of the world to-day, with all
| the thousands of homeless, friendless
young girls that need the flowing phi
lanthropy." The Young Women'a
Christian Association la demonstrating
what can be done to aid In this direc-
ton. The main trouble is that there
is everything to work on and so little
to work with. There's a philanthropy
needed among the down and out class
that great body of human driftwood
that Is sweeping so swiftly out to the
! sea of certain destruction.
DR.. Idngle's talk was very instruc-
| tive. He laid bare the need and urged
and called for aid along the many out