Show BIG HEARTED WOMAN i I 1 1 r gyp 1 ryr P U UI I Vi j I Y t s spY pY 1 t. r fr 4 i NEW V E YORK I. Irs DecA-Irs Mrs Bella Della Cook the tho e e second mother mothr to tho limo children of Second Se l avenue 1 as she ghe has been beD known for tor the th last half century i is nt fit theo the point of death For tho the last four fifty years she ha has been confined to her hor boil bed a n help a-help- help help- loss lees II s i invalid cl on tho the second floor of tho the I brick house in in the rear of No Xo 40 I Second avenue During the th week ek she fihn has bas been beon sinking inkin rapidly nail and her hr death cleath I is expected on any day clay She Sho is is Si 87 years old I Despite tho the fact that thal she sho has not able ahle to leave 1 her bed for many years Mrs Cook ook has never n allowed Thanksgiving Thanks giving ivin day or to pass without without with with- out pro i providing dinners for or the neIt needy in inthe inthe the tho c district where sho bo lives li On Christ Christ- inns mn all nil the tho children n in in the nj neighborhood have gathered d nt at her hl bedside il and have havo received tOYS from her trembling chari chari- charitable charitable t table hl hands Many lany parents in in that part of Sf Second avenue recall having in received Yuletide gifts itA R ns as children at her bedside bed bed- gi side ll forty fort an and l 1 fifty years vein ago t O. O |