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Show Invalid Writes Letters To Bereaved Families Most everybody called her "Cousin "Cous-in Martha," and she liked it. A New England woman with a trained mind and an intellectual face, she was invalided when only a little past middle life. Thus it came about that she spent her days as well as nights abed, scarcely able to move her body. Happily, her eyesight was unimpaired, and her patrician hands were scarcely ever idle. During her waking hours "Cousin Martha" was usually reading or writing. She began to write letters shortly after reading the daily paper,, pa-per,, which she spread out on the bed and consulted often. For a long time no one knew what it was that kept "Cousin Martha" busy writing innumerable letters, though there was much speculation. But one day the secret came out. Every day that saintly shut-in read the obituary notices in the paper pa-per and straightway set about to write a note of sympathy to the bereft be-reft family. "It is all that I can do," she explained, when her secret was . known, "and little enough at that. But it may help somebody in time of loss and sorrow." f Imagine the effect of such a let-, ter, beautifully written, reflecting a sturdy religious faith, coming into a home from which some member of the family had gone out. |
