Show SYMPATHY iN THE WO ln By HERBERT QUICK Author of On Board the Good Ship Earth nd ad Other Works Onto there Ibero was a woman who want wanted d to 0 dl dip dt She was suffering from Crom an nn In Incurable In In- curable disease Shut In ii and helpless the tho only thing she a was aR release Medical I science had pronounced her loom oom It could neither give I e back her life nor not free tree her from pain rain She Sho Ina made c cone one at last request t of ot science In view o of He Its helplessness hc S to to heal to-heal h Iteal nl her she asked that It H U use C Its skill to Rive give her a painLess pain pain- le Less leas s 11 death 3 tho Science cl no refused J To put ut an end b by death even Jo 10 o torture which It could 1 not lilt e would be murder o science reto re- re oj to do anything anything- Then Thon this miserable noman 11 wrote a aJ J I 16 a ii dall dally daily paper In which she voiced her I at the law which keit It I In the broken body the life which t 1 only illy It a burden but She a asked the aid j 11 f all afflicted in like manner nt o of all who felt C felt lt the Injustice she abc believed ed herself her her- self to be suffering suffering- to with Ith her In ft 44 movement t to secure the enactment of or la aH A i nJ 1 lIch mich lives h as he hers to be snuffed tJ out by hy the science vIette t which could vf K 1 th them na no iii other relief She r received thousands ds o of letters In pl Others rs of ot the shut hut in class her for the stand she he had taken A Al At t OlO she found he herself In the midst of t a H of friends and scattered scat scat- I l widely hut In I cation allon through that most wonderful of or inventions In the ta servIce Ba A till did not Jet get her 1 law w pas ed hut But the result was marvelous for Cor all that The Journal of the American Medical Association describes It Th The 1 of or messages o of sympathy from froni all alt over ocr tile tho world suddenly filled h hie Her life lIr with an Interest It hod ad not ot x OS- OS o s- s aiB HIlI had hat friends SI Slip She was the the- recipient of ot I n ny n flood lood of ot ym- ym I Even n hn it IK Is created b bv by such a common object as tho demand V for tor I death sympathy th makes life sweet Sh Shi forgot her desire for tor death She Sho wanted to live JI Man Many of ot her correspondents had hail similar simi almi- l lar r experiences experience Sho She still corresponds with them Rn and occasionally she he receives a letter from one of ot these Incurables of or IiI hi his cure nn thanking hu heaven n for Cor the law for lor the protection ot of the lives even cven of ot Invalids 10 This stor story in s a wonderful one to me I do not feel that I can e. e express resl its KB full tull m meaning Sympathy h la is tho the whole holo difference differ differ- once ence 1 between twEen society and solitude Mere bodily association with another do does not make Bodet society It Is sympathy which b makes companionship Sym means with and pa pathos denotes feeling or passion arid and unless ono one has a community com corn of or feeling with his fellows fellow he it I absolutely alone Ione This woman t was ill In body but she aha was as still more III lii In soul Sho She was starving starving ing for that communion of or spirit which I we call can sympathy Once blessed with that her bo body y linens became o of le less s moment mo- mo ment merit She wanted to live Prior to that j I I time she ahe had not been living She I wanted l complete death In lieu lIou of or In Incomplete incomplete In in- complete death but she received rEcel complete complete com corn life ICe In place of Incomplete life S Sympathy lh Is a tonic It Is a tonic In th tIme the m medical sense arl aI and it Is a n tonic which j will ono one da day heal society of ot Its grievous OUS wound I |