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can women who come to them, they extend aid to far away 

 peoples — Russians, Armenians and Mexicans aUke profiting 

 by their benevolence. 



The art galleries of New York point to Mrs. Elizabeth U. 

 Coles and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe as philanthropists through 

 the avenues of art ; and the country to Helen Gould and Grace 

 Dodge, Gail Hamilton, Mrs. Stanford, Mrs. Hearst and Mrs. 

 Reed, whose works and gifts have been ever towards the up- 

 lifting of young women in all the paths of knowledge. 



Mrs. Newcombe gave to young women in the south a 

 college, a church and an art gallery ; and Miss Annie Howard is 

 not the only woman in America who has built and endowed a 

 splendid library and presented it to the city of her birth. 



On the rolls of American philanthropy shine the names of 

 an innumerable company of women; names revered in the 

 hospitals and asylums and homes which they have built or 

 made possible ; in the multitude of libraries and schools which 

 they have scattered broadcast all over the land; most of all 

 glorious for the work they have done in reaching through the 

 young to attain to the highest and best standards of manhood 

 and womanhood — to obtain the greatest good for the greatest 

 number. 



