Show IP Paper aper Clues Clues' I Saves Blind Babe BabeS S IE SACRAMENTO TO Cal Cat Dec 26 8 D By N NE N NE E E. A A. A Service A Service A scrap of ot newspaper r tiny Lorenzo j swaddling clothes saved him from a foundlings foundling's r fate tate t Saved hi l hl mother from lifelong regret regret regret- and awakened a tardy maternal love lo Put Cut saved sated him to a life lite of ot blindness I Maria Marla Matranga year old Italian girl dreaded revelation of 01 her great and terrible secret That secret ecret had begun with a fleeting infatuation for tor a fellow countryman on the way over from Ital Italy It haunted her while living here with distant relatives It Itt I drove her out Into t the e night to deposit her nameless infant on the steps of 01 a church There her un unwelcome unwelcome unwelcome un- un welcome first born might die If it were BO so ordal ordained d and her secret be kept In her tren led hurry she had snatched up UlY a scrap of Italian n newspaper which might have been the babes babe's shroud aft alJ as well as birth vesture The paper hl had d been mal mailed ed t to her her from the hom homeland land and It pore bore lore her name and address Police Police- found the babe and readily traced the mother by the mailing slip Folks with whom Maria Marla Matranga lived found t. t th the Q girl eirl in III her room wild with fear and remorse She was nas rushed to tot t tia the to count hospital al with t the rescued res rescued t tot Yr veres where h b belated m mother r love ve seeks tomake to tomake make amends for the deed of 01 fear tear Little Lorenzo named for tor Marlas Marla's own good father fater h In lieu of or f the hbeo boys boy's parent et ind J will live say doctors r but he is doomed to blindness because of ot exposure And thus Maria Marla pays pas vicariously for her fleeting fleeting fleet neet- h ing love e aa and her hour of t desperation desperation- 01 because a a scrap of paper pe would not let lether let her social debt be canceled r |