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Show WIDOY'SCUP OF SORROW Series of Misfortunes Follow Fol-low Track of an Ohio . Woman. ' CLEVELAND, O., May T.f. The suicide sui-cide of her tbirteen-year-old daughter lona is the latest chapter in the tragedy of Mrs. Ruth Mason's life. Eight years ago her husband died, leaving Mrs. Mapon with six children-three children-three boys and three girls. Misfortune has followed misfortune. , Two weeks ago Mrs. Mason . was knocked in front of a car by a bicyclist. Her little daughter drank the carbolic car-bolic acid kept in the house for use on her mother's Injured arm. It was Just after breakfast. Elsie, 15, was washing dishes. Ruth, 10, was helping her. Iona approached them with a comb in her hand. , "Wliryou comb my hair now, Elsie?" She asked. "When I get through with the dishes," Elsie replied. . ! "Comb it now, won't you?" Iona persisted. per-sisted. "When I get through here," answered her sister again. . Iona said nothing more, and walked away. Her sister did not see her again until a -few minutes afterward, when she came running in with her mother. Mrs. Mason had gone across the street to a neighbor's. Iona had come running to her, crying: "Come homef mamma: oh. come home with me." . When they got inside the house lor. told her mother she bad swallowed carbolic car-bolic acid. The girl died I a an sn. balance ba-lance on the way to the horpluL |