AMERICAN CHARITIES.
Known benefactions to education, religion, and charity during the year 1910 total 163,516,125.62d0k. Andrew CaPnegie contributed 20,516,000d015. of this amount, including his recent gift of 10,000,000d015. towards the establishment of universal peace. John D. Rockefeller gave during the year 15,132,000d015., which amount does not include the sum promised by the organisation of the .Rockefeller Foundation. Isaac C. Wayman, of Sa-lem, Massachusetts, leads among the individual bequests to colleges with his gift of 10,000,000d015. to Princeton University. Women were num. bered among the large benefactors, among whom were Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. Mary W. Harriinan. "I want to see you just a minute," nays the lady at the bottorv of the steps, "but this hobble skirt is so tight 1 can't climb the stairs. You conic oui, v. on't you."' "I would if I could, tut ihis new hat of italic is too wklo to go tlii'ou r ;ii die douiway," sighs the one oa thu in=iQD
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 13
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159AMERICAN CHARITIES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 13
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