Peabody's gifts to London amounted in all to £500,000, and set an example which native millionaires have done well to follow. But he was an even more munificent benefactor to his own country, where he gave at least a million to education. When he died in London in 1869 _Punch_, in his memorial verses, contrasted the feelings aroused in the two nations with those of the "mourners" of most rich men:-- No common mourners here such office fill-- A mother and a daughter, grand of frame, Albeit one in blood, oft twain in will, And jealous either of the other's fame. But by this bier they pause from jar and boast, Urged by no rivalry but that which strives Him that lies here to love and honour most, Ranking his life highest among the lives. Of men that in their tongue and blood claim part: And well may child and mother mourn for one Who loved mother and child with equal heart, Nor left, for either, Love's best works undone. The beneficent use of great wealth on a great scale seldom evades ultimate acknowledgment. _Punch_ said no more in his tribute to Peabody than that great and humane American deserved. But minor endeavours were not overlooked, even where they led to no immediate results. Such, for example, was the proposal of F. D. Maurice and others to found a Working Women's College in 1864. Classes for women had been held at the Working Men's College from 1855 to 1860. The larger scheme was not realized, but has been revived within the last year by the establishment of the Working Women's College at Beckenham. Such again was the establishment of the London Dressmaking Company in 1865, under the patronage of Lord Shaftesbury and the Bishops of London and Oxford, to which _Punch_ gave a vigorous puff-preliminary in his editorial columns. In 1858 the fate of Emily Druce had shown that the plea of Hood's "Song of the Shirt" was in danger of being forgotten. But sweated labour was not confined to the cheap clothing trade. In 1863 West-End milliners came under the microscope of Parliament and _Mr. Punch_:--