Show Heartrending Misery Faces Children Do Your Part to to- Relieve Conditions Hungry Little Girl Faints in School Scho l You You- should have seen the way Mary Jane Jane gobbled gobbled up those graham crackers And the way little Julias Julia's big browneyes brown browneyes browneyes eyes sp sparkled when she drank her ner milk It certainly would have made even the most call callous us wipe away a tear to tosea see sea ee those two fine tine youngsters eat They were hungry hungry awfully awfully hungry In n fact not even a crumb had they eaten for two days Mary Jane Is 7 and the prettiest you'd ever care to see She's a aroud proud roud little scamp too for even tho though hough gh her daddy has not worked for months and even though she hadn't had lad a bite to eat In In- two days MaryJane Mary MaryJane MaryJane Jane didn't complain No sir She didn't eyen even miss a day U. U at school but was but was in her scat bright and early every everyday Mary MaryJane Jane attends a school over on the west westside side The other day she went to school as usual Her happy little face didn't wear its same smile her her cheeks were not of the same ruddy hue She tried to play with the other children but for but for some reason rea rca son her once chubby little legs wouldn't work Mary Jane Is just the kind of ot youngster who wouldn't give up Then all of ot a sudden the Inevitable happened The childs child's classmates went screaming to their teachers Mary Janes Jane's fallen tallen down in the snow they cried Yes It was true Mary Jane had Continued on OD Pate Pace one 1 MISERY Continued from race Face Seventeen S fallen down In the snow But Dut more mon pathetic than that Mary Jane had fainted She ShI had hod fainted because she had had nothing to cat for two days not days not even a 1 glass of or milk mUk THINKS OF SISTER BI Bit Big tears rolled down the youngsters youngster's youngsters youngsters youngster's young young- ster's hollow checks cheeks as she l lay y on a acot aj ai cot in the school rest room and related re- re through stifled sobs her heartrending heartrending heart heart- rending story But get et Julia she sobbed her weakened little body shaking from head to foot I am Julia Is 6 She's every bit as pretty as her sister But Julia Julin too had not eaten for two days The brave little littlechild littlechild child chUd had managed to get to her class though hough and when teachers found her hershe hershe hershe she was sitting with her head on her desk too desk too weak to pay attention to what was vms happening Then there was all hustle and bustle around that school Teachers rushed this way and that A couple of or big bottles of milk mUk were obtained and a a. heaping box of or graham crack crack- ers Mary Janes Jane's eyes almost popped out o of her head when she saw what was being placed before her And did she eat And Julia too Those youngsters ate n e but the cracker boxes They were hungry and theres there's no doubt about that TOUCHING POVERTY But even then the real story had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet been told A teacher accompanied accompanied accorn- accorn Mary Jane Janc to her home At any rate Mary Jane called caned It home It Is a no little mUe frame two-room two affair Inside were Mary Janes Jane's mother and three younger brothers and sisters rs huddled around a stove The youngest young young- est cat Is a e eyed bright ed baby boy still nursing There was ns only a small mall fire tire burning burning burn burn- ing in the range the range the only stove Inthe in inthe inthe the house On the bare table was a partly filled bottle of milk the milk the only food in the house and that was be beIng being be- be ing big saved for the baby Well it wasn't long until something something some some- thing was done for that family Great piles of ot food were heaped in the cup cup- board Coal was ordered and now Mary Jane and Julia Julla go to school on full tull stomachs But that wont won't last for long Christmas Christ Christ- rna mas Is coming coining around soon but Mary Jane and Julia dont don't smile when the they think of th that t. t Their brothers and sisters are too small to know yet but bu Mary Jane and Julia remember last las Christmas They recall how they rose early Christmas morning to find Santa had failed tailed to call can BARREN DAY The same thing will happen this year for those five fine children Unless unless un un unless less something happens Christmas will b bs a barren day for them wIthout without without with wIth- out toys and goodies And that's where you OU can help By subbing for Santa you OU can brighten up the lives of those five youngsters more than you ou can Imagine Will wm you help There are more cases even as pathetic pathetic pathetic pa pa- as those of Mary Jane and Julia Julla By clipping the coupon In The Thi Tele Telegram and sending It to the Sub Sub- Santa for department Qu will be bi given the names of worthy children for whom you can play Santa They need your ou help |