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Show MOTHER STARVES FOB HER CHILDREH'S SAKE Afler Weeks of Privation, Dies Happy, Knowing f jiitlc Ones Are Cared For. NEW TOlvK. Dec. 28. Happy that her children, for whom she had sacrificed sacri-ficed everything, even tho last scraps of food, had at last found friends, Mrs. Phyllis Trisco died at a Brooktyn hospital hos-pital of starvation. Mrs. Prisco 's hus- i band has been dead some months and with four liltlo ones, the eldest 4 3-cars, the youngest. '1 months old, to caro for. sho labored day aud night until she was taken ill. Tier pride prevented her from asking for aid, so sho paved what; bits of food sho could obtain for her little ones, while sho gradually grew weaker and weaker from the lack of food. The last bito of crusts wont for the children's Christmas dinner, and then in tho morning neighbors heard- the crying of t.ho little ones in tho unfurnished unfur-nished room in which tho mother ami children lived. Thoj' entered aud fouud Mrs. Prisco d3'ing and tho children chil-dren weak from the lack of food and from cold. Tho police removed tho mother to a hospital and tho Children's society took caro of tho little ones. When the physicians found that, all hope for the niothor was gone, the little lit-tle ones were sent for nun Mrs. Prisco was assure! that they would be cared for. The children were happy again, for they had plenty of food and (oys and as' the tired mother realized that their sufferings were ovor her heart was stilled and her sacrifico was com pletc. |