Show l J Her Hel Reward Be Being ng a True Story of a Brave Womans Woman's Compensation Com Com- On n On Earth Not in Heaven Time is is' the great adjuster Patience Patience all patience all ye weary J laden ones time will work out the pr problems now distressing you if you l I are true The sting of today's sorrow regret I or injustice renders you dull to the truth of this ancient admonition doesn't it You dont don't want to be preached to to eli eh Well will you listen to the tine story of we of-we wo shall call her Lydia She was true and patient and time HAS adjusted adjusted ad ado juste ALL for her Lydia was a truly beautiful girl A dainty figure brown curls framing a abright abright abright bright and radiant face she possessed a manner both winsome and graceful IIer Her paramount glory was in her eyes golden Jolden brown wide and glistening There is a photograph of Lydia as a aI girl of 16 or thereabouts which rather I I dims those of the tike movie stars we see all about us these Ulese days The rhe old lady who showed us the photograph and I told us this true narrative the other day is confident that Lydia twenty- twenty five or thirty years ears ago was one of the most beautiful girls in America From the shelter of a small town inthe in the middle West Lydia was suddenly sudden sudden- ly forced into the open of a great city Her mother had died and her father was wrecked by whisky She started to earn her living Alone thirsting for companionship she quickly quick quick- ly met the tike man the man the wrong man His hideous cruelty robbed this charming girl of her innocent contentment and her prospect of the normal the useful and th the happy life as wife and moth moth- er It wasas was as if a satyr had crushed the butterfly Unprotected unschooled in the worlds world's w way responding to the I false impulses of love real to her but false in him little Lydia presently I faced the blackest situation that can I come into any womans woman's life The girl made marie her de derision decision islon She would not try to right a wrong by adding wrong Sh She Sho was was was not a cow cow- ard i Ile e primitive instinct of motherhood mother moth motherhood r. r hood dominated her her for for she was good The fluttering of the the life Ilfe to come was precious Lydia fled to a distant city and there the boy came There are a few just few just a few who few who know today how bravely the mother fought during the years By her toil she kept her son with her clothed him and ted fed him and instilled into his soul soula a sense of goodness and love abundantly antly flowing from the break in her heart What do you think he did 7 exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed the old ady Jady who told us the story He won a university scholar scholar- I ship at 18 His mother went with him kept house for him and for the first year continued to earn for them both Then he began to write college sports for the newspapers and he lie earned enough for them both to live on That wonderful boy graduated third In his class He had done some remarkable writing and the day he lie left the university he had saved more than 1000 from front his earnings Ire He went into business He Is rising rising rising ris ris- ing magically He soon made a beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- home for his mother One night he came in beaming Mother they have sent me to Europe for three m months he cried clasping her In his arms Never a night in his life had he hc slept under a roof that did not also shelter his mother This was to be bethe bethe bethe the break but she was happy She would write him every day It was his great opportunity And then then then- under her plate at the supper table she found the envelope containing a along along along long green steamer ticket for HER And he laughed and she wept and lau laughed hed They Then are like lovers She has grown as young and fresh and interested interested interested inter inter- ested as you see her in the p photograph J almost The Tho boy knows the tho whole story of course No Not Nol for that reason but but because because he lie adores his mother he heIs heis heis Is compensating her In full measure The house becomes a bower of flowers flower on her birthday She is his theatre companion his church fellow and his business confidant and guide The Jewels that one man forgot to place upon her hands the son has placed there Utere in manifold The fearsomeness and the drudgery of the early years can scarcely be remembered by Lydia today In the whirl of gaiety and life that her prospering son indulges for her sake And she is SO happy said the old lady Patience patience weary laden ones TIME IS THE- THE GREAT AD AD- JUSTER |