Show FAMILY I OF f fi B Bi i i I IS CHEATED i. i OF f XMAS I Thief Takes Purse F From rOIn I Woman Who Planned I Yuletide for Babes Late yesterday afternoon she ehe wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered into The Telegram editorial room roam Her liar eyes were red from froming crr i ing A little lIlU girl Irl about aboul 9 year ean held the womans woman's hand r J Dont cr CJ cry mother molher she ebe enco n nas a as her par parent l t started to tell ber bet betI berand 4 and oke M-oke into tears tean I Between sobs the woman a Sy sir i told of the coming of ur misfortune J s Jat I I at the th time when evoi every thing Me rj i bright for a fairly ir he happy happ IJ Christina 11 r. r I From what she told luM the men la to c. c Telegram office oice four tour children a y just as much disappointed on mas mal morning as the Immigrant w was ye yesterday ter lI t Even immigrant Ian children know t Santa Claus u I But stockings ire are hard to fill a d I i dinners lOre ire distant when a w l IU 1 I saves laves and skimp skimps for many 1 months month and ami then IhlI loses lOll all 11 of fit 1111 I j hoarded nickels and dimes i t t 4 I SAVED FOR FIVE MONTHS I I For Far five fhe long months month Amelia Id B South Third West Wet has tolled I slaved to free her hei household from and put awi away a a. little for tur a a. rainy Perhaps s a little tl joy iov y at Christmas I t err te i for her four little o ones and her husband l In two months month she succeeded j I I I clearing the boards board of or all but a loan In the lice last Jut three months month 8 has been able through the sale of handwork made by her hei sister In Into S Sto I to lay aside 1 Saturday morning the little wo we whose hose face and body hod show the theof theof of or hard toil toll went ent to th the Me lie Moe- Moe bank banle and drew out this thin paid bills amounting to 1115 1116 The nce ance she was carrying t to her horne home a I. I purse to be paid panl lat later r lo to from whom she had borro all her cares and worries ot ness nese were to have ha ended LEAVES PURSE ON CAR 7 She boarded hoarded a 2 30 2 30 o'clock All An Ani 1 car She laid h her purse on tM 1 t ic seat i and when n she left the e ell t Third West Vest she also loft left the pur puro No Xo o sooner had she left the ca tats can i she missed her purse puree The ell car stopped on Its ItA next trip Th The Th p was handed her by bv the th conductor the money was as missing l v Neither of or the cars car's crew could e lighten her to the smallest detail detili dec ll r to the probable ble identity of ot the who had taken the money n. n was as reported to the thc police and to tb street car management but they nought of the missing man money could help but little With tear bedimmed eyes she ahei I to the office of ot The Te there thero told he her stor story Her Eng Beg poor but the tale was unfolded tho the tran translations lations of ot her pretty eyed black-eyed daughter I IThe The wretchedness of ot the woman complete THREE YEARS IN U U. 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S than three years ears she and f little family has hall been In the land Ian freedom For two t years ears of that t tI ther her husband has haJi been an Invalid In c h fined to his Ills bed and unable to woOn weOn wo we woOn I On her has hu fallen the burd burden making the II living I n Her sister slater In made mado pretty prett things with her I Oh such pretty silks silk and thing thing- said ald These Thue she sold about the halt half half the tile earnings belonged to to the other half she sent to the 1 1 the land Jand far away for her lier supper suppo for tor the care of her aged parent She had borrowed the money months ago to pa pay the duty on a ment of gods fods for the holiday holiday The goods were sold Tn To the th t tIn In Syria half hair was wa sent lent on nn Its It lop Ion ney and there remained a s l fI amount to repay the loan What hat little now Is III left must go for go-for goforthe tor the Immediate necessities of ot the family fam tam family ily 11 PI Please alle help me help me she cried erle-d th the i. tears streaming from her fY eyes The little girl Irl too seemed to grasp the seriousness of nr the lo loss 10 s and with witha a sobbing and pleading olce O cried I nn page A 21 t FAMILY OF SIX Continued from page 1 Oh do you think the man will bring back our money We need it so badly badly- MONEY BADLY NEEDED The couple too gave every evidence that the money was needed The mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's shoes were worn and shabby her coat was thin and tattered and torn A skimpy light weight sweater which has seen Its best days wa was all the wrap which shielded the little girl from the winters winter's cold blasts Her skirt was short and thin and frayed at the edges Where pockets should have been there were only holes There lingers In the breasts of this pair this pair this uneducated immigrant woman woman wo wo- woman wo- wo man and her once faced bright-faced little girl the hope that the tle thief is not such sucha a bad man after all That he or perhaps perhaps per per- perhaps haps she will find a way to return to them their mone money Only that can bring happiness to this now wretched home where poverty and sickness again hold S' S |