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of subordinates. They knew, too, that
there was a lot of injustice in the crit;
cism to which they had been subjected
Many of the properties which outsiders
thought were owned by Trinity and for
the foul condition of which Trinity
was held responsible, were not owned
by Trinity. For 100 years Trinity had
been giving away land and buildings
to various organizations dependent on
1T to some degree. Some of these or
ganizations had sold the property Trim
ity had turned over to them. Some had
allowed the property to run down or
get into bad hands. But at the same
time, Trinity had allowed its own tene-
ment properties to be neglected. The
structures were old Some of them
We're a disgrace to such a great and
prosperous institution as Trinity.
There was no denying what Miss Din
widdie stated. A clever vestrymau,
probably with a legal mind, saw an op-
portunity in her report to lift Trinity
out of it's dilemma. He suggested that
she be employed to take charge of Trim :
ity's seven or eight hundred structures
and that she have a free hand In bring
ing them up~to the laws requirements.
Some of Trinity's buildings were IS
years old-some 100. some more than
a hundred
There isn't tenant Of Trinity that
Miss Dinwiddie doesn't know personally
There isn't room In any building owne1
by Trinity that she has not gone ovel
with microscopic eyes. She has made the
Trinity properties far better than they
were before. Every bit of repair work
everything from new wall paper to put.
ting on new roof has been done by
her direction. She has absolute control
She may be said to be the greatest WON.
an landlord In America. She rules tn.
old Trinity farm with it's thousands Of
| tenants. She has done excellent business
for the Trinity corporation, and mag
nificent work for Trinity's tenants TIL,
| properties she has in her hands have
value of millions of dollars. She is very
| quiet and very modest and Is perfectly
satisfied with the designation Trinity
| gives to her on its roster and that is
Emily Dinwiddie. clerk.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given away
third of the immense fortune LEFT to hel
| by her husband What she is doing ant
what she has done will be appreciated
more 20 or 90 years from now than 4
| Is today. Out at Forest Hills Long Is
land, she is giving a practical example
| of how to develop a community, how t
| make beautiful homes and yet homes tha
Will be within the reach of persons o
modest means. She has furnished tn,
money for thousand inquiries or exper
iments in housing. She has.financed tn,
| surveys OF conditions in many cities. Sh
has given bountifully for childs welfar
work. She has been very discriminatin'
in her gifts. She has employed many sci
entists to study school hveiene, to ge
at the fundamentals of health, to pro
vide proper ventilation, light and dres
| for the young. She has thrown NOR
light upon the Industrial conditions Q
| workers than any other one woman. s.
far as is within her power, she is usinl
her great wealth for the good of hu
manity. She is employing the best mind
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~ LDEST among American churches
is the church of the Pilgrims.
~ which was founded aboard the
Mayflower in 1920. That church after
ward was divided into two groups, one
of which became the mother of the
Baptist church of America, but the
original body was the mother of Amer
lean religion and of American civiliza-
ton. 1t has come down in history as
the group of Congregational churches,
petuate that spiritual freedom which
they crossed the ocean to secure, dem
ocfacy seemed to these old heroes the
right form for a New Testament church.
They made no attempt to coerce the
mind of any but they expected of each
the highest and best that he person.
ally could bring to the general fellow
ship. 1t was an ethical and spiritual
fellowship, not formal or metaphysical.
There was no interference of one local
organization in the affairs of another.
Each was reckoned supreme in its own
right, a very house of God, not made
with hands, but inhabited by the Di-
vine Presence. In that conception met
the EXTREMIST sort of Low church SYM
pathy and indifference to forms with
the opposite extreme of highest rev.
erence for the decisions of the church
meeting, as certainly an expression OF
the will of the indwellng Spirit whose aid
was sought before reaching the con-
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AMERICAS MOST USEFUL WOMEN-By Richard F. Spilane

has even gone to the length of putting
a swimming pool in her grounds at
Tarrytown for the children of the
neighborhood. Certainly her life has
been useful in many, many ways
Lillian Wald has done. a marvellous
amount of good. Twelve or IA years
ago she started q nurses settlement in
Henry street. New York. In that dis
trict there are 100 nationalities. She
knows no race, no creed where good
is to be done. She has done more to
teach hygiene in the tenements of New
York than any other one person. From
the little start she made in Henry
street. the nurses settlement has spread
and ranified until it embraces all the
city. The nurses under her direction
unquestionably have done much toward
the reduction of the death rate in New
Iork and in making the city what 1t
Is today. the healthiest great commun-
ity in the world. Miss Wald has many
of the characteristics of Jane Adams.
She has decided administrative ability,
deep sympathy for the poor, and great
faculty for winning the confidence of
those who come within her sphere.
There was a time when the nurses set :.
tlement had to struggle for existence,
i but Miss Wald has accomplished so
much and has developed her work on
/ such broad lines that today some of
the greatest millionaires of America
are proud of the opportunity to give
| their money to aid her. not only in the
nursing field, but In any other enter
prise to which she lends her name for
| the good of humanity.
| Emily Dinwiddie Is comparatively
little known. She is of the famous Din
widdie family of Virginia. In many
ways she Is remarkable young woman
| She was connected with the tenement
! house committee of New York and with
the Charity Organization society at the
time that the Trinity corporation came
4 in for bitter criticism on account of the
condition of it's tenement property in
New York. The tenement house COM
mittee assigned Miss Dinwiddie to make
an Independent investigation of condi-
tions in the Trinity's properties. The
report she drew up was presented by
| Lawrence WELLER and Robert w. De
| Forest to the property committee OF the
vestry of Trinity church. The vestry-
men were shocked: they felt grieved
over the criticisms of outsiders and tine
| public generally, but they resented the
statements made by Mr.. WELLER and Mr.
| De Forest because they had considered
Mr.. De Forest and Mr.. WELLER their
| friends. They even questioned the ac-
curacy OF the statements made. There
| upon Mr.. WELLER called in Miss Dinwid-
die. She told the vestrymen that sha
/ had prepared that report and it was
based on her personal investigation
/ She went into details and she reiterat-
| ed every statement that was in that re-
port. but singular as it may seem, the
| vestrymen could find no fault with her
when she made the statements. She
Is mild of voice. very earnest and a
sincere seeker for the truth. Those ves-
trymen unwittingly had been lax IL
their management of Trinity's affairs
They did not give to Trinity's busines,
the attention they would have given tt
! their own. They accepted the report.
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SOME ALLUSIONS IN THE PLAYS-NO 4-By Dr. W. E. Evans

to treachery, and treachery of the worst
kind, even Inconsistency and adultery. In
the Winters Tale, we have Paulina say
ing,
.'And thou, good goddess Nature. if
thou. hast
The ordering of the mind, too, 'mongst
all colors,
No yellow in 1t; lest she suspect, as he
does,
Her children not her husbands
And In Cymbeline, Act II. scene 8, when
Posthumus, husband to Imogen, suspects
Iachimo of treachery against his fireside,
he says,
IT thought her
AS chaste as unsunned snow. o, all the
devils!
This yellow Iachimo -. -.
And in Cymbeline. act II. scene S, when
allusion Is made In Richard I'll, in act I,
scene O. The body of Henry vi is brought
into view, in an open coffin, followed by
Lady Anne as mourner, and guarded by
gentlemen bearing halberds. At the COM
mand of Anne. the pallbearers "set down
their honorable load.' While she Is
lamenting the death of Henry, the Duke
of Gloster enters. Anne reproaches Clos
ter with being the murderer of Henry,
and exclaims,
20, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henrys
wounds
Open their congeard mouths and bleed
afresh.'
Then turning to Gloster, she cries:
Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deform-
ity;
For tbs thy presence that exhales this
From cold and empty veins. where no
blood dwels;
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the middle west, and probably has done
more to make better men and better woIa-
EN- of the rising generation than any
other one person, Chicago has produced.
Ida NJ. Tarbell has worked In a wholly
different field from Jane Adams, tut
the result has been almost as important.
She Is one of the greatest thinkers and
one OF the ablest of writer's. She carries
this message to women today: Study
your own special qualifications and then
make the best of yourself" She is maxi
ing the American young women realize
that one of the most important things
within the scope of woman Is to qualify
herself as good home maker She
breaches household efficiency and proper
rearing of children, and tells them this
is the great big job for women to do.
She was the first person in America to
focus public attention ON the shortcom-
ings of big business. A long series of ar
ticles which she wrote with mastery
ability laid down the lines which public
lists now follow In the Encouragement of
business affairs in America.
On the foundation which she laid. laws
are being made today In relation to money
and to trusts. She probably has done
more to shape political lines than any
other one writer of modern times. She
would have made a great lawyer. She
would have been great in almost any
DTdnCn OIL eIlueaNOT III WHICH she enISTeQ
Nothing Is more remarkably in relation
to Miss Tarbell than the fact that she. a
woman. has had such a tremendous n
fluence in the affairs of the greatest ma
ton on the globe.
Helen Gould Shepard probably has
as high a place in the affections of all
the people as any woman In America.
There was time when the name of
Gould was not held In esteem by many
| t<.,& r. L n1~~ Ill u
She has poured out her wealth through
many channels and always for the good
of men and women. She has been the
good angel of the army and the good
angel of the navy. She has been the
good angel Of the railroad boys and the
good angel of the blind and the Grip.
pied. 1t would be difficult to give q
list OF the Young Mems Christian asso-
citation buildings she has established
throughout the country. 1t would be
far more difficult to tell of all the good
these institutions have done for fire.
men, engineers, brakemen, conductors
track men, engine wipers and others
She spent tens of thousands OF dollars
at the end OF the Spanish American
turning soldiers and to care for the in
| valided. To the men OF the United
! Stct.ss navy she is the most glorious
woman In the world. She has done fol
| them In the matter of Y. NJ. G. AS the
same as she has done for the railroa'
man.
Aside from the soldiers, sailors and
railroad men she centers much of hel
attention on New York university ant
on various hospitals for the care Of
crippled and blind children. She il
more democratic than any of the othel
of the rich women in America. Hei
estate is always open to visitors. She
has great love for children and the,
are always welcome at her home. Shs
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homa, that would have been stolen by
the politicians, IL it had not been for her
opposition. She was elected commissioner
OF charities and corrections OF the state.
All the children or Oklahoma We're her
wards, all the poor and the r.eedy are her
charges. She hag worked systematically
and well. she Is one of the biggest powers
politically in that part OF the southwest,
but all her power is employed IN tho
cause of those who cannot protect theni-
selves.
Anne Morgan daughter OF the late }
Ptorpont Morgan, is one of the most use4
ful women in America. She has almost
as much energy as her father, and al
mot as great a gift for Organization. Ia
special work she is Q wonder She psac-
tically had charge Of the relief work
at tho timo OF the Triangle fire in New
York, when nearly $50 girls met deara
in that awful holocaust. She was .is
leading spirit, too, in the relief work IL
the time of the Titanic disaster Shs
never spares herself at such time. She
plays large part In the management CT
the lying-in hospital which her father
established and which was one of his Pc.
charities No one knows how much good
| that lying-in hospital does. 1t would ha
we'll If every city in the world had a
hospital like 1t. The monument to Miss
Morgan, however. is the Colony club
That is the most distinctive and probably
the greatest women's club In the world.
Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalama-
zoo. Mich, Is an evangelist in social
ethics. She is the leading municipal eN-
pert of America. She has done more
for cleanliness than any other 10 wom-
en- who ever lived. For the last 10
years she has gone around the United
States teaching cities how to be decent
She has converted backyards and dump
heaps into fairylands of flowers ard
sweetness. She has established domes-
tic science schools for children. manual
training schools for boys employment
agencies for men, and at the same tinlo
she mas taught municipalities how TO
keep books. how to run their affairs
economically. how to reduce the tax
rates. and how TO improve living condi-
tions. She has reduced the management
of cities to a basis of good housekeep-
| ing. She is in the hfties. All her life
she has worked in the cause of the
people. Twenty years ago she was IN
the pulpit. She didn't preach creed.
but she preached the Christian spirit
| She called her church the People
] church, and she spoke on ethics seven
| days in the week, ana she worked each
| OF the seven days. She never spared
] herself and she never went To rest ae
night unless she was satisfied that :har
| day she had done at least one good
work, had improved the lot of at least
one human being, or had lightened tho
burden OF some one person who was in
distress.
Julia C. Lathrop is chief OF the chit
dren's bureau at Washington. She IS
one of Jane Adams girls. She is a
miss, but she is the mother OF the juve-
nile court in America. She established
! the first juvenile court the United
states has known She WAS a worker
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A MER1CA'S most useful women are
"A confined to no class and no Sec
a tlon. Among them are women OF
great wealth. and women to whom dol
lars are few; women who were born In
palaces and women who were born in
sordid tenements. They form group
of the most remarkable workers In the
world today. Some are so we'll known
that their names are household words;
some are obscure, but the obscure labor
no less earnestly and no less worthily
than those who have the recognition of
the millions.
OF all the useful women in America,
Jane Adams is perhaps the most widely
known. She has become n tremendous
influence for the betterment of mankind
She has made Hull House, Chicago,
known throughout the world. Her name
and that of Hull House are associated
in the minds of all who know or hear
about her. Hull House is her creation.
There We're settlement house In England
years before Hull House was established.
She went abroad to study them. When
she came back she started settlement
work in the heart of the foreign section
of Chicago. In that section Italians,
Poles, Slave and Jews are herded together
In great number. Before she went among
them, they knew a thousand miseries.
What she has done to bring these people
ND to better conditions of living never will
be told adequately. She has their con-
fidence and respect They go to her as
children go to their mothers, and pour
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ana their business troubles, and look to
her for guidance and for aid. She is the
mother confessor of tens of thousands OF
the poor and helpless.
She knows not only how to counsel and
to aid, but how to encourage and uplift.
Her work of minimizing the temporary
emparrassments OF the foreign popula-
tion of Chicago has been small In COM
parison with the constructive work she
has done to wipe out conditions that tend
ed to pauperize and keep submerged the
poor and the ignorant. She has developed
Industries, established employment agen-
cies, taught the young, heartened the old.
assisted the Ill, lightened the burdens
Of the unfortunates, and In the doing OF
1t all she has made Hull House the model
kettiement Of the west From England,
Germany. France, Australia and distant
parts of the globe, men and women have
come to study her methods. She IL that
rare combination of woman who does
not allow her heart, big as it Is with sym
pathy. to run away with her Judgment
She has rare business ability. She has
become a great force in the social and
econmic life of the United States I'm
questionably she is the leading citizen
OF Chicago. More than once she has beer
called into conference by President OF
the United States. She probably has
done more to improve conditions for
working girls than any other woman in
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blood had begun to ooze from the dead
monk nostrils; it crept slowly toward the
thicl<et of his beard, where, In the course
of a moment or two, ii hid itself" "Of
course, you know the old superstition
about this phenomenon of blood flowing
from dead body" said Miriam. How
can we tell but that the murderer of
this monk may have just entered the
church" ! have stood within the dark
shadows of this same church of the Ca
puchins, and just where the body of the
dead monk had lain. In my imagination
| called up the scene that Hawthorne had
drawn. An old monk, with the dark brown
habit and hood of the order, precisely
like the monk of the Marble Faun, would
now and then pass me and lose himself in
the dim shadows.
Benedick, in Much Ado About Moth
ing" act II, scene l, says "I will fetch
you a tooth picker from the farthest
inch of Asia; bring you the length of
Prester Johns foot; fetch you a hair off
the Cham's beard-rather than hold three
words conference with this harpy." Pres
ter John has figured In history and leg
end for many ages. He was said to
be a Christian king In Ethiopia His
name was simply John, but because he
converted many of the natives he was
called Prester-presto, to change. One
story Is that he was blind, and though
the richest monarch in the world, he con-
stantly pined for food. For whenever
his table was spread, harpies came. seized
the food, and flew away with it. He
was the most inaccessible of all mon
archs in the world. 1t was said of him:
while like the mighty Prester John,
Whose person none dare look upon,
But is preserved In close disguise,
From being made cheap to vulgar
eyes"
Yet BenediclS was so confident of his
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only see Prester John, but. take the
measure of his foot, and fetch a hair
from the great CHAINS beard--he will find
the great man as tame as that, and, in
stead of finding him unapproachable he
will be so familiar with him. as to bring
away a ''tooth-piell." And yet with
all his boasting Benedick quailed before
the lady Beatrice, saying as he retreats:
81 cannot endue my lady tongue.
There is a curious alusion in the sec
ond part of Henry " act 9, scene l. The
scene is room In the palace. Insomnia
has fallen upon King Henry, and he ad-
dresses the god of sleep. He says in the
course of his soliloquizing:
20, thou dull god. why Hest thou with
the vile,
In loathesome beds; and leay'st the
lSingly couch
A watchcase or q common 1arum bell?'
+ believe instead of "or" in the last line,
the author wrote for so that it read
originally.
"A watchcase for a common 'larum
bell"
But why a "watchcase?" How on
earth could the kings couch become like
a watchcase? Easily enough, If we once
know what q watchcase is. Can we
say with him of Much Ado About Moth
ing,' 1--WE know what belongs to a
watch?" Any dictionary will tell you
that "a watch is an abbreviation of
"wachmen," men designated to watch
over the property, or persons, or inter-
ests of others. The watch is supposed
to be out in all weather, day and night
Therefore, humane sympathies suggested
that the watch" should be protected
from rain and snow. In other words,
that the watch should have a cover
ing about him; for the word lease"
means a "cover," or box. So that the
"watchcase" is a watchman's box. AL
thnugh the 1yatch ahnllld he nrntectnd
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France, with its growth of olive trees and
grape vines. To the ardent French this
was rosy dream and on these western
borders they saw In vision mansions and
palaces. spacious grounds and the afflu-
ence of gay society to which they were
accustomed in their own brilliant capital
on the Seine. Dreams like these heartened
the host and eclipsed all care and worry
and banished the prick of ills to which
they We're destined to be subjected. Ar
irving at Philadelphia, they fingered for
many months during the negotiations
with the American government for do
main of land on the distant Tombigbee.
They commissioned a French statesman,
Nicholas S. Parmentier, as their agent
to consummate the plan. There was ac-
cordingly adopted l/by the American
Congress in March, 1918, granting, to
these refugees four townships. fronting
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their life in France by having their own
local laws, they would at the same time
bring themselves into practical conform
ity to the constitution of the United
States. We shall see how fully their
dream was realized.
Once in America they ELECTED the aid
and cooperation of a DR.. Brown of Ken
lucky, who had spent much time in
France, knew the French people, and
was endeared to them. DR.. Brown acted
as an interagent between the French and
the federal government in the introduc-
ton of the cause of the refugees. That
which they sought was the utmost con-
fines of western occupation. for two rea-
sons, one of which was because of the
cheapness of the land. and the other was
because of Its segregation. At that time
the Tombigbee was that western bound
ary. Here was to be established new
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the watch must never sleep while on
duty. From his box or case, sleep is
forever banished. And so King Henry
troubled with sleeplessness, likens his
royal couch TO a "watchcase," where the
lonely, wakeful watchman stands ready
to sound the alarm ben should need
arise.
In the same act and scene as the above
'watchcase." the Earl of Warwick, in
addressing the king, says:
"Rumor doth double, like the voice
and echo" And in Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, scene 8. in the Capulet garden.
Juliet says,
Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak
aloud;
Else would tear the cave where echo
lies,
And make her airy tongue more hoarse
than mine
With repetition of my Romeo"
The allusions call to mind the beau
tifully poetic NEUROLOGICAL story of Mar
cissus and Echo; which, though so uni
versally known, will bear repetition to
the end of time.
Echo was one of the most beautiful
nymphs, and was wont to pass much
time in woodlands, and in hills. Be-
cause of some displeasure which she
had given Juno, she was sentenced To
perpetual silence. except in one parti-
cular use of her tongue. She might
make reply, and nothing more. Echo
saw Narcissus one day in n forest and
loved him on sight, and followed him
whithersoever he went. She longed to
speak to him, but she could not--she
might only respond to his words. One
day the beautiful youth Narcissus, be-
ing separated from his companions.
called out who's here?" Echo an
swered, Here" Narcissus, looking
around and seeing no one, called
"Come." Whereupon Echo said. Come