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Show MESSENGER BOYS I FIILYJJISTHE3S Good Cheer Club Provides Food for Needy Mother and Three Children. Touched by the grief and suffering of a mother and her three ragged, starving children, who had been left absolutely i destitute when their father had deserted : them two months ago, the boys of the Utah Messenger Service Good Cheer club last night went to the home of Mrs. George Lainge, No. 1 Kendall Square, where they found her despairing, and took with them enough food to supply the family for several days. Mrs. Lainge said her husband deserted her unexpectedly two months ago with a baby 7 months of age and two other children too young to care for themselves, one 2 years and the other 32. She told the boys how she had struggled along in the endeavor to conceal the fact that she had been deserted, entertaining hopes that her husband would return. In the course of a few days, she told the boys, a letter came from her husband with no return address and describing vaguely the work he was doing in an unknown un-known town. Then, she said, she gave up in despair and sought the assistance of her friends. "The rent is two months' due now." she muttered. ''The children are sick and hungry. My strength is giving away. Something will have to be done to bring my husband back to me and help take care of the children. I have appealed to the police and I want them to find him." As soon as the messenger boys learned of the woman's predicament they bought a variety of provisions. lard. meat. rice. , coffee, bread and other foodstuffs, and ; took them to the impoverished family last night. They expressed their determination determina-tion to take care of the distressed mother and her fatherless children until something- more is done for her. "The children were an awfni sight." said one of the boys who had listened to the story of the stricken mother. "The kids had no clothes and were wrapped in bandages and pieces of cloth. It was a pity." |