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Show A Sermon From tha Hew of a Day. It is seldom that the news of a day does not contain con-tain lit Jenit one story of heart Interest, a narration of facts the reading of which tends to uplift men and women. Yesterday tbo dispatches, told how, with millions of dollars In hrr own right and nllne. ago that reaches bock to tho Normans, Mls Ciiro-lln Ciiro-lln M. Phelps Stokes, daughter of Anson Phelps . Stokes, the New York bunker, hns turned her back on tbo smart set nud diown to marry a ixmmIIcm worker In the East Side Iuiiim in (lothnni. Enrl.v In .lunrt h will become the bildo of Robert Hunter, bend of the rnlvernlty Settlement, leaving th Mill son avenue ninnxlon of her father to make her Immf there In that mean nnd squalid quarter. The match will purely one of love. MInn Stokes, who Is next to;the youngest of a. family of four sons and live daughters, has a personal fortune of more than $2,000,000, and it is said that she will inherit $4,000,. 000 from her father's estate. . She has been an active worker among the poor of the tenement district. There she met Mr. Hunter. Then she interested her brother, the Rev. Anaon Phelps Stokes, Jr., in the work, and he moved from his fine home in Madiion avenue and took up his residence at the Settlement, to aid Mr. Hunter in improving the condition of the need-. It is refreshing to read such a story as this sandwiched between the news of crime and scandal which each day develops. Miss Stokes is a typical American woman, which means that she is a womanly wo-manly woman. Her romance is only more and stronger evidence that gold cannot blind love-lit eyes. And thU heart story is simply one of many sermons that the news of every -day life develops. |