" At Urfa, after the atrocities of 1896, philanthropists of all nations had founded orphanages and started native industries.

She helped him train his choir, established an orphanage at her residence for poor children with musical inclinations, and published songs by Gounod and others, including herself, the proceeds going to the aid of her orphanage.

One student in writing of her future plans mentions that, as an "avocation" in the chinks of her hospital work, she plans to raise private funds and found a little orphanage all her own!

To the penitentiary were added an orphanage, a training-school, a hospital, and a lunatic asylum.

Was it really a finer life to chatter at dinner-parties and tea-parties, and occasionally to inspect an orphanage?

Well, there I was, stranded, with these creatures on my hands, all of 'em, as you may say, looking up at me in a dumb way, and wanting to know why I couldn't have let 'em aloneand if ever I smash up another Orphanage you may call me a Turk, and put me in a haremwhen all of a sudden it occurred to me to look up the names of the benevolent parties backing the institution.

She was a gifted writer and wielded considerable influence and could, by her pen, do much good for such a work, not only by her writings but by personal letters asking for contributions to establish and support an orphanage.