| Show I Lights of New York By L LL L STEVENSON I 11 bite haIred women bowed un under under der er the time weight el bt of years stand In sub subway ay entrances and Ith mute muter r fleas leas In timer Jaded faded e eyes cs es tend e to hurr hurrying Ing thou thousands ands packages or o boxes of chewing gum Usually clad In rusty black some sonic even near tar tho those e caps with chin bows bos bo s that grandmothers used to wear but generally the time thousands are too to lime driven en self occupied or hard hardened hardened ened to the of poverty po Irold In 01 old 1 age ae to note details After nil all time the chewing In gum peddlers are such common sights that they attract no n attention So for years though I millions of human units passed herby her herby heiby by few ev noticed Muriel Starin and few bought bouhL her wares But nut enough did so that t she continued to 10 11 the live e In Inn ina Ira n a room up In Harlem 1 let ct et there been a time when hen Muriel Shrin ltd had known lu luxury ury But that was as not 1110 1 i n by those who pissed her by until at the age of se enty death came to 10 her e 1 I Then It I was sins as discovered that the lh ie e women who ho sold gum was svgs th e I daughter of John U II Starin sib who o I once owned Glen Island In Long Lon Island sound and whose e excursion steamers ran to Coney Island Sta Staten ten Island and andew ew ew Haven lIa lien hen she slie reached womanhood Miss bliss Star StarIn Starin In took up missionary work ork and for a n number of years worked In n Chinatown n Then she went to achurch a achurch church In Harlem an and labored among the lie colored people And Ane v when hen the bears rested so heavily on her that she was forced to give u up missionary work ork and use live by selling gum um In subways sub ays it v was a colored woman oman who ho gave ga her shelter until death closed her ber eyes e She had hd mad another friend also an undertaker to whose si hose father she used to tell her ber troubles That undertaker un saw to It that the bent little old gum peddler was burled buried In her grandfathers grandfather s plot on Staten Island Island-In Island In the French Huguenot cemetery where the 1 an rest S I I That reminds me of oC another little old one woman woman one Using living Ih Ing up on ash Ington Inton with two old mon mor mongrel mongrel grel dogs l hen there I Isn n t food enough for the time dos dogs and herself she e goes without t She doesn t mind In nU all this tills great city those two t dogs are the only friends she his has she told a social worker recently And Anda Ana a bird dealer once told me ins th Ili It 11 parrots ind such n a sale In sew ew fork ork because they are ale corn com company con pany pany for Cor the lonel lonely S A patrolman who ho swings a mein club In the mid to town ton n sector but bu who vho ho Is a friend of or all the hid kids told me this one A ragged youngster approached a well dressed man and asked him If it he had lost anything 1 the he min man spotting a fat wallet In Inthe inthe lithe the lad lads s hand promptly answered ans ered that he lie had bad So the boy turned the wallet over oser to him 0 er and received a dollar as a re reward I But nut the he chits chis chiseler eler found when hen he lie opened the time wal ival wallet wallet let that It contained only tl tI tissue sue pi piper paper per lie He made a squawk k to the cop coi and and got chased for Cor tr trying to Ing to out outsmart outsmart outsmart smart an apparently honest boyl boy I then 1 hen there was as that truck drIver who stopped his big vehicle on a narrow v side street In such a mom r er that he tied up everything An officer plo plowed ed his way through the dIn of horns and sought ought the offend offender er He tie was found In a place where strong liquids are dispensed and anI Et ec explained that his hands hid had become so cold that he ho was sins afraid to 10 drive without warming them theme 0 e Dell sa Sn SD n IoU W Service s |
