Show STRICKEN fAMilY IS IN If DIREST NEED U OF CARE AND HELP Father in Hospital Mother Bedridden and Children Attended by Neighbors There is one pitiful and aud iD deser case ease of destitution in this city which S the charity associations which hav S been doin doing such splendid work alop these lines of late h have ve overlooked Th The S Sease case ease is that of the family of Aaron I MaYb rry consisting of a father mother moth moth- er an and three sma small children residing a at al L 1372 Park avenue a For three month months S past their bodies and anti souls souIs have ban bees beEn I kept together only through h the kindness kind kind- ness and compassion of nei neighbors So fo for whom in in keeping leeping up their own lies ies a also so it has been an arduous task At t present the father of the tho family i is is C at St. St Marks Mark's hospital where he ha has has I been for two months with an illness 3 which threatens to keep him there mud much S longer on er unless death deaths in III the meantime ends his Isis suffering and the wife and sac I mother of the youngsters j is bedridden 1 with physical and mental menta suffering a at al t her unhappy little home borne The husband husban 1 has s not yet been apprised of the serious II illness of his isis faithful wife but as each 5 day passes and she does not visit him a al at I the hospital as she was wont to do before be fore her sickness he becomes morand more mor S Sand and more certa certain n that all is not as wet wel I with her as the physicians and nurses nurse I would woud have ha him believe An Au additional I worry and fear is ie thus added to his hi his 3 wretchedness At the poor home bome a son i 1 12 years Jears old od the thc oldest of the children stands a faithful sentinel at his hill mothers mother's moth moth- ors ers bedside The other little ho boy r mana manages es to keep at school thanks ti to the neighbors Neighbors to the Rescue The little girl the youngest in th the S family was found by a r representative yesterday afternoon S playing happily in the back bark yard vard with wit witha 1 a pet rabbit all an unmindful of the un ua unfortunate fortunate circumstances which place pace heso he hes her r so near isear actual hun hunger er A warm hearted hearted heart heart- ed nei neighbor with little ones of he be her r own has offered to take the baby gir girand irl irland and caro care for her until such suh time as girr he bei her r parents parent s may again arain be on their feet bu but beit t thin tho- child is still loyal hoyal to her lies mother and Iud even oven the tempting bribes of pretty new dresses and ansi toys which have ha offered her have baYe as yet yet failed to induce her to leave ea e her home hoine The neighbors state that the children are well behave be be- have bayed and just as helpful as little folks folk can ean bo 10 around the home A A. big wood woodpile woodpile pile in the back yard testifies to the tho in in- indu du and thou though thoughtfulness of the youngsters who a are e of course scarcely old enough to realize what real ral poverty means Mr Ir Mayberry is a carpenter by trade and is a a sober ob l' l and faithful worker More than three this months ago while hile em- em cloyed on a building in Murray he fell from Erom the roof and suffered a a fracture of three ribs His injuries were attended attend attend- ed cd to toby by a physician and nd it was thou though ht that hat I in a week or ten days ho he would I be ic able abe to return to work He lie seemed I Ito to improve for a short hort time but later started to vow grow worse again and the clotted blood having ing formed an abscess on m Isis his lung un he was told tod that an operation opera opera- tion ion was was' the only ony thing that could sa save his bis life ife Operation Takes Savings The Tho little litHe earnings he be had been able to lay by were eaten up durin during the first month of isis his 1 s illness and when it ame ramE to a a. question of taking him to ton toa a hospital he was unable to m meet et the tho expense expense ex- ex ex cx- pense that would thereby thereby- be incurred T The e physician however made the necessary essary arran arrangements and for tho the last two wo months the victim has been leen at St St. Marks He lie is still in in such condition that hat his nis ultimate recovery is doubtful Mrs Irs Mayberry was sick at the tho time of her liar husbands husband's relapse but she ebe mana managed man man- managed a aged cd to keep on her feet until ten lays days a ago o. o when she was forced to take to her bed Again the nei neighbors lent tent assistance assistance assistance as as- and aud the services ics of a physician were secured for her lies It was feared for fora a time that her bel illness would prove faal fatal fatal fa- fa tal al but for the last two days dare she has las shown hown some somo little improvement and has bas hopes lopes of bein being able to be up and about a again ain in a short time tune The Mayberrys have no relatives to whom they can look ook for assistance and their heir food fuel and lifes life's necessities have lave been furnished for three months as its stated b by the nei neighbors The chil- chil Iren it is is said arc are wearing the tho only clothes they the have and ere loner ionic will b be without shoes stockings s or covering o of any kind It is a pitiful case of real I bard haid hard tick luck and the doubly s stricken family amily is s evidently very deserving of something some- some thing thin more substantial than sympathy |