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Show Children Munch Dry Crusts and Three Children and Widowed, Sickly Mother Suffer While Salt Lakers Spend Thousands Daily for Luxuries Shiver in Dreary Little Shack I With her youthful beauty and vigor faat leaving her because of poverty and Ickneas brought about by hard work, tha fight for axlatenre of Mr. Marie Morrell. now living in ona room of a aback at Ik North Hexenth Wait atrtet. ! a mot pitiful pit-iful one. Her husband committed suicide sui-cide In Eureka In June of 1910, leaving her with three children and herself to aupport. and alnce then life tu bar has been on adversity after enother until now aha la left destitute In her abominable abomi-nable one-room dwelling alt. .out so much as a chair, a table or a bed There Is nothing to eat and Mrs. Morrell Mor-rell Is too weak from alckneae to earn a living, Hhe aval her three little children, the eldeat aged 7; Prank, age . and j Mrtl the imngrwh age 4 jrriiuiiuli- ) i ng an eta of braatl . as 1 1 ng aoup made from dlstardetl bui.ea, lit fat-t they are Juat I a rely existing snd st-anely that. The entrance lo ihe room Is made hy fitish 1 ng aalde a R old aroi nou t woolen quill tnat has been placed over the door-ma door-ma v I n the ahaeni-e of a door. On a small Move, that would cause a Junk shop shame, (there la ao raoa' Mra. alorrell was cooking her lunch this noon, which waa a tin dish of onions. The offensive iniini artalng from the pan on the stove, mixed with the odor of the Illy ventilated, musty room: the absence of a rhalr or a table H. i with a few bed rlothes spread In one ornert a trunk opened and eltow Ing a few tea spoon n, a half a glass of sugar and old rcusts of dry rya hread. made the condition a nost dtstreealng one for the Intruder. "I am down and out." said the sad mother in. I the taara that she tried hard to auiepreaa rept Into her eyee end ahe hurled a tired face In 'her apron. Her three little children have wonderful blue eyes that looked In wonderment at their mother. The eldest one. Mildred, lookel troubled and grieved Krafflt. whom his mothsr said. eemtlra his ilaar dad." la a manly little fellow and looker) longingly at his weeping mother as If hs dealrad superhuman su-perhuman strength to ml her In the struggle over tha gap letween starvation and life The emallest youngstsr. Myrtle, hung to her mother's skirt. Mrs. Morrell said she has been here alnce Det emoei Hhe came from Oarfleid, where she had been washing for twent-flve twent-flve work m-n "J Wui kel nn aelf out." she declared. "T em not strong and am unable to do heavy work. If f only had a better place to live and a aewlng machine ma-chine 1 could make a living, for 1 used to do much sewing sven when Frank was alive." ahe continued. Hhe declared that In Eureka she had furniture complete, for two rooms, "a range, aewlng ms-hina. and everything." she said, "but I let a family by the name of Oirdner have them. Thsv promised to buy them, hut never sent the money." I'pou being naked how she obtained fuel to burn In the little dilapidated stove. Mrs. Morrell said that In the night, when her three little tots were burled In sound sleep, she crept from underneath har covers cov-ers on the floor, and with a sack went out and picked up coal aa beat she could. "I can't etand to aee my little darlings shivering. It's bad enough to hear their rrfee for bread and butter,' she ssld. Mrs. Morrell declares that she had a Utile money w hen ahe flrat came here. Hhe used It S2 each week, but flnelly her small savings ran out and she has nothing left, not even a loaf of bread. "I am not going to gjve up, but will fight hard until I get on my feet again.' optimistically declared the game little mother. "This Is the first time I have been In dire need of the necessltlee of life, but by the kind help of heaven I feel confident con-fident that I will struggle through snd come out on top." said the distressed widow. Hhe said that she did not send her two oldest children to achool because they had no clothes to wear. All three are bright, good looking, clean, brue eyed children, that show marks of breeding and of a mother's tender care. Mra. Morrell haa never neglected her darltnge once during her fight for existence that Is now nearly three years old. |