What Can a Rich Man Do to Help the World
A mid edge feature profiles Anson Phelps Stokes and other leading American millionaires as they confront wealth’s burden and duty. It quotes Rockefeller, Astor, Sage, Mills, Depew, and Whitney on charitable aims, prevention, and trusteeship, stressing wealth as a societal trust and urging action toward education, production, and honest employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anson Phelps Stokes
Stokes
Phelps
Dodie
Rockefellers
Vannerbis
Astors
Goulds
Anson
Stokes, Jr
Mammon
Rockefeller
Sage
Hetty Green
Chauncey M. Depew
Trust
John Jacob Astor
Astor
Andrew Carnegie
Russell Sage
Wall Street
Saya
D. O. Mills
Millis
New York
Bowery
John D. Rockefeller
Great Western University
Various Global Tidbits On Money, Oysters, Arts And Education
Bank of Spain reports 3 million dollars more gold than a year ago. Spitsbergen hosts only a tourist hut far from civilization. German demand shifts toward American oysters amid rising Holland oyster costs. Tse-Chan province in China sits atop larger coal beds than Pennsylvania. William C Whitney has up to 75000 dollars offered for Titian painting Danae and the Golden Rain, bought in Paris for 50000. Aluminum transitions to widespread use in arts and utilities. Samuel Mather offers 10000 for every 15000 raised for Kenyon College library fund, yielding 15000 from J P Stevens. Western New York claims world’s largest grape region with 50000 acres. South Africa traveler notes Benedictine nuns building and bricks making over 100000 bricks. Bishop Mallalley urges readers not to read David Harum books said to reek of rum profanity and tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Spain
Spitsbergen
Civilization
Germany
Tse-Chan
China
Pennsylvania
William C. Whitney
Danae
Titian
Paris
Samuel Mather
Cleveland
Kenyon Colleges
Gambier
J. P. Stevens
Champagne District
France
Sunny
California
New York
South Africa
William F. Mallalley
Methodist Episcopal
Masachusetts
David Harum
Family quirks and backyard ramble reveal a lively clan
In a humorous piece Johnny lists relatives quirks from Ma the vegetarian to Uncle John the anti imperialist and Aunt Lavinia who says women should vote. He notes cousins writing poetry and Granpa coughing remedies as he and his dog step outside to find sense in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Bister Sue
Bill
Gran'pa
Eacousin
Jen
Advice to Dyspeptics and Siberian Living Fragments
A fragmentary 19th century column discusses dietary folly and cautions against overindulgence with pickles sauces and sweets. It contrasts aging health with strict eating, then shifts to Siberian hut life where moujiks store grain in ice a season and salvage vitality from plant life, noting the orange leaf can sprout vitality.
Also Mentioned on This Page
America
Necie
Helen Miller Gould
Hetty
Howland
Robinson
GREEN
Henry Clews
MILLS
Chaunce M. Depew
Gonn Jacob Arom
Johnny
London
England
Siberia
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