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Show VICTIM OF CANCER WILL HAVE GOOD CARE Mrs. Charles Smith, tho victim of cancer and a cruel husband, of which tho latter affliction seems the worse, was yesterday removed from her miserable home to the Holy Cross Hospital, where she will receive the tender care nnd attention at-tention which her condition demands. Mrs. Smith's case, which was first brought to the attention of a charitable public by The Tribune, was later taken up by Dr. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Hill and other members' of the Humane society, so-ciety, with the result that assurance has been secured that the remainder of her life, which must be comparatively brief, will be spent by the suffering woman wo-man in peace. It is believed that the woman would have actually starved to death had not neighbors provided her with food, and cruelties even more terrible ter-rible than the failure to provide food kept her in an excited and nervous condition and added greatly to the horrors hor-rors of the disease which was eating her life away. Ora, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Smith, is now anxious to secure a position as nurse maid that she may aid, little though It may be. In meeting meet-ing the expenso of her mother's care at the hospital. A concert for the benefit of the sick woman will be given by St. Mary's choir in the Salt Lake Theater on Monday Mon-day night, April 11th. Manager Pyper has donated the uso of the Theater for the purpose, and other necessary expenses ex-penses are almost entirely donated, so that the performance should net a handsome sum for the worthy cause. Those who heard the choir concert an St. Patrick's night will welcome an opportunity op-portunity to hear it again. |