Why do not the great number of rich people who
leave their money to Charities take a little more pains to think of adapting those charities to the newer wants of the world. In America they do seem to do this. We have not only lately had a modern type of University endowed by such a testator, but the late Mr. Alexander Stewart, the great New York millionaire, founded a "Working Women's hotel," which is almost completed, and will soon be opened. It has cost £400,000 to build and furnish, and this great sum is given absolutely to the enterprise. For the rest, it is to be self-supporting. The main dining-room will seat 600 persons, and the library and reading-room are to be good and large ones. The hotel is intended to give to women who earn their own livelihood the best rooms, best furniture, best attendants, and beat living, at a charge not exceeding for the whole £1 a week. Surely a happier device for charity was never suggested.
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