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01 THROUGHOUT THE
METROPOLIS
TV TO TH
E iFORTUii
2VIps. Thomas Fortune Ryan, One of the
Most Philanthropic, as She Is One of
-the Most Wealthy, New York Women
Who Devote Their Lives to Doing Good
to Others.
SPENDS A MILLION DOLLARS YEARLY ON
HER VARIOUS CHARITABLE SCHEMES.:
Wife of Wall Street Baron, She Lives Plainly,
Builds Churches, Helps Hospitals, and Spends
All Her Sparc Moments Making Baby Clothes
for the Poor Gives Without Ostentation, and to
All Who Are Worthy and Unfortunate.
Day in and day out she sits and
Srnits and knits and knits, with a
teadfastness of purpose that ruled
4he fingers of Mme. Jacobin. But the
etitches she takes are not the record
of evil destinies. They mean succor
ior the sick and heavy-laden, work
for idle hands, bread for the hungry,
enlightenment for the untutored.
Gentle, sympathetic, intensely pious,
a. home-lover and a home-maker, is
this woman this mother in the old
fashioned meaning of the word,- the
"wife of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
The characteristics of Thomas Ryan,
money-making prince and Wall street
fcaron, in a way also rule in the life
of Mrs. Ryan, builder of churche3,
hospitals and schools, and the little
Jraown but enthusiastic cooperator in
every move making for the betterment
of the human kind. It has been said
of her husband that he has had a fin
;ger in every big financial pie in the
Hast decade. She has had a hand in
.nearly every philanthropical work in
INew York, Virginia, the District of
(Columbia and the southwest in that
time She is now giving away more
rthan $1,000,000 a year.
This woman, of whom the world
knows practically nothing, has built
.more churches, hospitals and schools
rtind endowed more places for the wor
rshlp of God than perhaps any other
ittviug person. She gave $1,000,000
slast year alone to the churches and
schools of Virginia, her native state.
Publicity is Mrs. Ryan's bete noir.
To give without ostentation is the only
-way to give, according to her belief.
There is no difference between Mrs.
'Ryan of 30 years ago and the Mrs.
'Ryan of to-day. It was of no moment
4o the public then what she did or did
mot do. She cannot understand why
It should be interested now. She
counts herself as doing no more than
4he wife of a poor man who gives of
place of honor there, and on the walls
are a few good engravings. This hall
is like those found in all the fine
old southern mansions. On the first
floor are the library, drawing-room
and smoking hall.
But it Is up a wide staircase to the
second floor that one must go to find
a room about 20feet square, furnished
with chintz-covered chairs, hung with
pictures, such as have long since bsen
consigned to the fashionable and
wealthy to dusty attic corners, and
strewn with sewing tables, chests, a
tea table and a music box. Everything
is old-fashioned, with one exception,
and that is an up-to-date desk, with a
telephone attachment, which stands
unobtrusively in a corner. This is the
room, with its windows filled with
red geraniums the year round, where
Mrs. Ryan plans her good works,
which the wealth of her husband exe
cutes. There Is never an idle moment when
Mrs. Ryan' is in that sitting-room of
hers. No visitor is so Important, no
conversation so interesting, as to ab
sorb her entire attention. She has
a sympathy for the comfort and in
terests of the friends who go to her
there, but always begins the visit
with:
"You won't mind my going on with
my knitting, will you?"
Not very long ago, when Cardinal
Gibbons called upon Mr3. Ryan, his
eminence was shown to the sitting-room
where Mrs. Ryan was busy, between
telephone calls, knitting a baby's; pink
and white sack. After a formal salu
tation to the churchman, her fine
white fingers began to ply the yarn
in the weave again.
"You will pardon mr doing this,
your eminence," smiled Mrs. Ryan,
"but if I worked only when alone some
babies wouldn't be as warm a3 I like
them to be."
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stltutions or clothing bureaus for aid.
Mrs. Ryan calls that person her friend
who tells her of such people in need.
There is a score of families, rem
nants of fcroken-down aristocracy,
whose sole support lies In the fine
needle-work which Mrs. Ryan gives to
women otherwise unfitted for the bur
den of self-support-Over
in the south corner of the sitting-room
there is a big chest with
many drawers, each carrying some ab
breviated label. In this chest are kept
exquisite alter linens, the making of
which has teen the liberal support of
families in need. As fast as . these
suplies are accumulated they are
sent out to poor missions or heavily
mortgaged parishes where the people
are unable to contribute such things.
There is another chest full of baby
things, and, dearest of all to the heart
of: Mrs. Ryan, a well-filled medicine
chest.
"I don't believe you look well," said
Mrs. Ryan to a little needlewoman re
turning a package of fine linen one
day. "How do you feel? Do you ever
cough?" And in the end the woman
went away with three bottles of hypo-
of months, and come around here to
morrow morning at ten o'clock. I am
going to put some thing3 aside and
wait for you. Good-by, and God bless
you!"
If you wandered into the big sitting-room
any day you would hear
many talks like that.
Mrs. Ryan 13 a great traveler, and
owing to the ill health of one of her
boy3, who has been compelled to spend
so much of his life in arid lands of
the southwest, she frequently takes the
six-days' Journey from New York to
the Painted Desert in Arizona. During
these trips she always travels in her
private car "Pere Marquette," which
includes in its furnishings a conse
crated altar and all the fittings for the
celebration of mass. At such services
her car. i3 always thrown open to any
in tho villages who mays wish to at
tend. It was because of her son's ill-health
and necessitated stay in the southwest
that Mrs. Ryan interested herself in
the missions to the Indians. She has
built 11 churches throughout the
southwest and she has done much for
tuberculosis sufferers in that region.
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THE FIRST COMPASS.
Was S&aowa. to Sailors Before the
Twelfth Century Indispensafclo
. ; Adjunct to Navigation.
Some Asian people, perhaps the Chi
nese, ylscovred, many centuri3 ago,
that a fcind of Iron ore possessed a very
peculiar quality. We call this ore
magnetic ore, In more common lan
guage, lodestone, and it Is very widely
iistributed, especially In the older
crystalline rocks. It was found that
If a bit of lodestone were placed in
water upon a piece of cork or straw
braid It would turn till the axis of the
stone assumed a north and south posi
tion. A phenomenon of magnetism had
been discovered by means of an ore
that is; peculiarly susceptible to mag
netic influence.
It is San open question whether the
Chinese utilized the directive power ol
the lodestone, but it is certain that the
first rude compass was not used on
European vessels before the twelfth
century of our era. By that time the
true magnetic compass - had been
evolved through the discovery that if
an iron or steel needle were stroked
on a lodestone it would receive the at
tractive and directive power of this
ore. With this wonderful appliance
placed at the service of navigation, the
vessels that had hugged the coasts soon
dared to venture even out of sight of
land. A new Impetus was gradually
given to cartography, for now the true
directions of the coast lines might be
charted with some approach to accu
racy. It was the hapy fortune of Ital
ian sailors to make the surprisingly ex
cellent surveys of the directions and
lengths of the Black sea and Mediter
ranean; coasts and along the Atlantic
to British waters that have come down
to us in the so-called Portulan maps.
Cyrus C. Adams, In Harper's.
a slim purss to others. She
:from a richer purse, that's all.
Old-fashioned as Mrs. Ryan is. she
Is a woman combining all the business
qualities and foresight demanded " by
the times. She is a woman of affairs,
.yet her home life comes first.
A glimpse into the favorite residence
of Mrs Ryan the old MInturn house,
on the northwest corner of Fifth ave
nue and Twelfth itrcct i3 a mental
tuttlx after tho gXtter and glare and
arnUhncis cno usually meets in the
liomca of the rich, decI.ircU a" writer
in the New York Times. You enter
through a hlgh-ceillngcd tall,. draped
-with soft sarnet hangings. A paint
ing of the master of the house has a
gives
"And whose baby are you working
so hard 1 to clothe?" asked the card
inal. "Oh, a poor dear little girl who will
appreciate it," and then the subject
was changed, but not the thoughts of
Mrs. Ryan.
A few friends who have been in the
sitting-room many times can tell of
dozens of packages of haby clothes
made by the nimble fingers of the
rich Mrs. Ryan. And besides, she
keeps a corps of sewers making chil
dren's garments, which are delivered
to her residence and by her given in
person to thxt most unfortunate of all
the classes, the proud poor, who will
not ask at the doors of charitable ln-
phosphites, which would have cost her
as many dollars.
Mrs. Ryan-s life has not been with
out cloud and bitter grief. Death and
long illness -have weighed heavily on
the mother-heart, and that great flood
of sympathy given her by nature i3
ever wide to a fellow sufferer. Long
and intimate acquaintance with illness
has given her practical knowledge.
and she knows more about medicine
than many a man with a license. Two
of her boys have been stricken down
with lung trouble, and the great whits
plague holds greater terrors for her
than any other physical affliction. She
has given of her financial and personal
aid toward the cure of those afflicted
with this disease.
"I am more afraid of a sneeze than
of a sprain, and a cough than a broken
bone," she said one day. "Oh, I jus"t
can't talk about it. It breaks my heart
to think of the flower of the manhood
and young motherhood of our country
being cut down by thi3 terrible . curse.
When I think of other mothers who
have seen their young sons He down
in their youth before their life work
had begun, victims of this disease, I
long to do something, anything, to help
find a cure for it all."
A tear dropped on the Ivory knit
ting needles and the usually placid
features of the kindly face set in an
expression of suffering. .
A ring of the telephone bell and the
knitting was put aside.
"Oh, 13 that you, Mary? Now', don't
assume that coldly polite manner and
say nice things about appreciation and
all that business. It's purely a busi
ness deal. You are mot fit to work.
and you know you are not. Suppose
you die, who'll take care of the
mother?
"Oh, oh, oh, that cough! Now, look
here, little friend of mine, you do as
I ask, or you will make me very, very
unhappy. What good would any
money of mine do me if I thought
people I am interested in and like
would die rather than let me help
them? Now, look here, you go up into
the mountains until you get well and
strong again, and then you can come
back and pay me back, if you want to,
some day. Let me look out for thing3
for awhile.. . -
"Lose your position? Good thing!
Ill get you a better one. . Now. I am
busy knitting. You tell your chief to
night you won't be there for a couple
There are tent villages outside of
Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa and a scor j of
other desirable places where con
sumptlves find Nature's cure, which
has been furnished and supported by
Mrs. Ryan for afflicted men and wom
en whose means made such measure
impossible.
If Mrs. Ryan hears of a boy or-girt
who has shown any talent and haa
not the means of developing it, her
handsome, motherly face brightens
with one of her happy smiles as she
says: "I am so glad I can do this
little thing for some other mother's
boy." It is always "a little thing"
that Mrs. Ryan does, whether li be ti
build a church, a hospital, a school.
or help the ill in body or mind. It's
always "a little thing" for the handa
which give a million dollars a year
for good work to spend long hours
making baby clothes for some little
one whose mother finds life a poorly
fed, overworked, back-breaking prot
lem. It's "a little thing" to take i
worn-out shop girl away from her
drudgery for a month or two of rest
and comfort where God's air is pure
and undeflled. It's a little thing" to
send some young boy with a hard
cough and red spots on his cheek bones
out into the eternal sunshine of tho
southwest for a new lease of life. It'
a little thing" to go out personally
and hunt employment for the support
er or some iamiiy, to provide com'
forts and necessities for families in
want, to make employment for men
and women unfitted for the responsi
bill ties which have fallen upon them.
It's "a little thing" to educate ambi
tious boys and girls, and to do all thess
"little things, with just one stipula
tion: "You won't say anything about
it, except sometimes remember me la
a little prayer."
In the big public subscription
where donors' names are advertised
for what they have done, Mrs. Thom
as F. Ryan's name is never seen.
Avoiding always publicity, she is th
same quiet. retiring, great-hearted
woman who came to rsew xorK me
girl wife of Tom Ryan, a clerk with
nothing but a baby and a genius for
making money,' S4 years ago. There
are women in the old Jesuit parish oc
Sixteenth street who still remember
the sympathetic little woman who
lived there a quarter of a century ago,
and who' helped many an unfortunate
from the earnings Thomas Ryan
brought home on Saturday night.
ALL. FOND OF PEANUTS.
Delicacy Relished by All Animals-
Even the Hippopotamus Devours
Them with Pleasure.
"The peanut is a delicacy relished by
all creatures," said a New York animaj
lover. "I have come to this conclusion
after having offered it to every animal
in the Central Park zoo, and having it
refused by none.
"Oh, I know it isn't allowed; but I'm
not one of those individuals' who offer
animals indiscriminate numbers of
hard-boiled eggs, frankfurters, cheese
sandwiches and cigar stumps. It's for
that sort of nuisance the rule about
feeding is made. A single peanut can't
ruin the digestion of a pamel or of
any other creature, for that matter,
and I never visit the zoo without a
bag or two of those legumes to distribute.
"Yes,; the camel is. fond of them
very; and so are the peacocks. The
hippopotamus -obligingly opens his
mouth to let me toss one in, but the
mouth is so large and the peanut so
small that I doubt if he can quite de
cide whether he likes it or not
"The kangaroo pokes his funny,
horse-like head out to me, munche3 the
peanut : with relish, and then begs for
more. The elephant, deer, ostrich, and
even the lion, are all lovers of the peanut."
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PE-fH STRENGTHENS
THE ENTIRE SYSTEM,
Mr. Chas. L. Sauer, Grand Scribe,
Grand Encampment I. O.' O. F. of
Texas, and Assistant City Auditor,
writes from the City Hall, San Antonio,
Tex.:
"Nearly two years ago I accepted a
position as secretary and treasurer
with one of the leading' dry gxxxla
establishments of Galveston, Tex.
" The sudden change from a high ancl
dry altitude to sea level proved too
much for me and I became afflicted
with catarrh and cold in the head, and
general debility to such an extent as to
almost incapacitate me for attending
to my duties.
was induced to try Pcruna, and
after taking several bottles in small
doses 1 am pleased to say that I was
entirely restored to my normal condi
tion and have ever since recommended
the use of Peru na to my friends."
Accept Signatures in Irish.
Irish ; language revivalists have just
scored a notable victory. The dlrec
sjrs of the National bank have agreed
o accept checks signed in Irish, pro
vided the signature is repeated in
English. One of the advantages of
this system, as the bank points out,
is that , it acts as a double protection
against forgery.
"The; Romans had small regard for
human life in their amusements."
"Yes," ianswered the man of violent
prejudices. "It's a matter of great
surprise to me that they failed to dis
cover football." Washington Star.
Food
Products
make picnics mors enjoy able by making
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Easier to carry; easier to aerre; andjurf
right for eating aa they come from the can.
Libby's cooks have first pick of the best
meats obtainable and they know how
to cook them, as well as pack them.
If you're not going to a picnic soon you
can make one tomorrow at your own table
by serving some sliced Luncheon Loaf.
It is a revelation in the blending of good
meat and good spices.
Booklet fre, "How to MU
- Good Things to Eat." Writ
Ubby, McNeill H Libby, Chicago
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