In recent years quite a number of. enterprising people have come forward with eobemes for systematizing the charity dispensed by millionaires. Advice upon the dishorsement of! fabulous incomes has been abundant, Apparently there are scores of people who, themselves enable to grasp the knack of fortune making, have studied to perfection the art of spending. In this, it would appear, they are very mach in advance of people having control of After receiving requests from iter writers for sums amoantjog in all to £12,000,000, Mrs. E. Harriman, widow of the railway magnate, has appealed to the New York Bureau of Municipal Research to superintend ber mendicant mail," and to assist her in wicely dispensing charity. In twelve mooths Miss Helen Gould has received 50,000 letters oon-taining requests for sume smonntin, to £400,000. These two ladies not alone among the kings and queens of riches in confessing their inability to face the grand attack of the poverty stricken, The solution of their problem is not easy, for the demand will always increase with the sapply. The increase in the number of th who bold great fortunes will inevitably inoresse the number of people who, from necessity or caprice, will plead for money. However carefully the dai of beggars are sifted, the obs di pensed la bound to have " vitisting effect, The Laird of Skibo has adhered to his original beneficent programme of " Libraries," and good may come of it, especially now that the class for which tended is demanding more leisure in order that it may enjoy the arts of life. It might be well if the generously inclined possessors of millions combined some work of constructive charity, which would be of real service to the industrious poor, rather than lay themselves open to cringing appeals from quacks and impostor
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