| Show I Help lp tine th Weary W arSh Shop p Girl To Enjoy Her Christmas tea Ono One A stop loU 1 rent fOil far The 1111 Holiday season cO OIl toM loU loUr m by 1 m In II Thor ThI ork 11 U n t II rho h t kw r of N Vow ew w York Ill Ir II Is Ia no city Ih the of r un Ilon belle ring bright Its on only Interest f for r ants out but bul the It would 1 I k 10 Christ r f iii tel tellie fate tl in n enough tit doctor bo be bernand II lie Ill Iu give fin you nil all I pa pain ran la III that rm Im nn no writer trouble rouble ro The tro I te n co ho o many man c tl moro mOre or orK orI orleas iv earn w sod Bud 1 details H It that a K go good Hl l many I leas Ilk Ilke K b mind hind Ill ghe nil 1111 U I Ican UA c can Lat Last A er on II Christmas Jf girl came omo my m u It I Io ka but about l 1 u ao 0 closing clo up She watt vu III oil to worn porn orn her hr face so 80 white while suin ling ur f k h it t for granted tho wo WM a al 1 Iok that lt I 1 that with n II l I Ln et wt u t laugh taugh 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se r I p ra 5 were off oft ome some Si sit s lay laj 11 on nn her back her herI and then than her hertle I tench ha dl Ido ol tried tle ur UI ure tithe th suing lIIng When hen I tried 10 to e tj k qUI ho her nT only r reply Py wa was wall u II uI lIb I sin hart F BOTH BITH ERR EHE S ST T J turn turned to In the Ih older sister ler who is 11 rd II she lie ga gave mo me the tho of oC ofas su lIS the sae as ast W ri tut lule he talked she ho ha sat I sate Il t e st Irr rn n 11 Ii chair hair then than rose ro e and i o d abut ium hut But her hor voice had herself She t quirt quiet see nil sn I In han land only J I wish I h I could 1 it n III H 11 in her ier r word and In full for forIr Ii T our r ral a I vividly real rial Her Herr J Ir r gg a plain plain ria In and to 10 the tho point U It Un n about abul b ut like this Their lr mother had hd died lonG ago aRO They The Thed d ed 1111 father a R clerk He died t 1 IS i yea ears back and since o P i this Ihl rm hAd hud been their home hom homei tome tomeI i I 1 Eart Ea hart hail rk d since the legal ag agn age n u One line eur u lean Ia oars tho the other two tWI store lit The Tha fh liter b Mr r are TB r m in the tho Same name 0 rE Kill K s IId M Id mid toys toy The Tho wrapped i up P parcels Six anti and cur nir a 1 Wk week w ek made mada their wages i j THIS n CJ i v 1 Patti rani alii tor for rent e rod lOd K d and andi i 1 h thes rt J 13 3 a R week eck breakfast for tor torn fort t i s i I en n un um n II for two tO 20 0 conta canto contaT t r w ppe T her I two 31 cents centa on an average li st otlee IT was u as cooked over the th thetis I cut The Tie other r two tV meal were wn bought ii Tieh ili h jv m The total for meals meals i ut u J a 1 I a 1 week Mk Adding the rent renta as a e Is o when It rained added aMO au JD 3 nt more mort and made trade the thet eaten t nC c 47 Jw 7 w Of Ot the JIM left each pd tl e U ft 1 a 1 week on laundry Ind nr or nt Fifty Fitly a I stet tt had ilK brn saved In two years rears hM bd b 4 not quite quit KO ZOe JOo a brief VM a ss hating 1111 wiped d out 1140 They Thy ThyL sent M ra 1 L g to 10 live in a R regular are Th tile I bem for a It home grew out of oftie tie be fITI guts lub they belonged to tn It Itan III an ana ens night a week Tl In I 1 n this club curb Jf ned with mth lix other girls Kirla In m D Save up and ond lent two to small fi ra e flats adjoining und no so not ark t i a L e how home ht 4 n wv sae orl 1 They n needed 4 l 1 1 s 6 TV Tiro h mia euon I hud bad como come on For tilt the last six Ih weeks they had nork worked d with money mOM At Al AtH I H r t only otili on two tuo nights u a k till 10 Then three IhNo nights and In tho the thelast last six 11 nights a 11 week eek till 11 It One Olle sold toys the tho other othor em up Tho Jc loco l Wee Wn fast unit and never neMT lot let Ie t tip tipIs tipis I P PJ Is J that package of or mine never ner com corn comIng tug Ing you hurry hurly it up UI TIM The T e girl girl who vho wrapped em m up grew nick Not really Pall sick but hut enough to tomake make mok both loth sisters nervous Three nights night a age co It grew laud Imd enough M so on the tIl vr way y home hums at It 11 It p in m she walk welk quit quill straight tier Her slater sister had Iced tn to help helt her hl l lW Jl II W Rn Thoy They lied iMul t the thing that night faced the Ihl th thag tg till l Y u II m rn Th The oi Jc lion tIon to 10 her olk wt was WAI this thill Last winter Inter New Vew York had out of oC work If Jt rho ho threw IIII up UI her hei Job she he might not trot iret t It b beck ck If stir sin hp goodbye to that Uvular home hOlne Thoy They lound n a way out cut The fhe name nunie of the way 11 I give eh 11 It H a one onu un of th the worst of oC the latent nt nerve neive ti ik And tho the thing worked ut u I amt Hk like a charm chun She Jiho hardly 1 lidded III moan meals oven and simply along until the day dt be tie fore furo t began to happ n inside I I 1 that afternoon it Jt hIl neu more moi hour Il UI Ily y 9 at t night lIght u it t wa bad b 11 enough lor tor her to lean leun ito down n from h hn hee r wrappers p and tell her hir sister to 10 keep ke one eye oye on nn her hrIn herin In UW take pl plate ui The 1110 queer IU thing Ilk pines plair pili about hout fl 0 j An All hud huet l Iteen hn n stun 1 tad And that wits H ell all that the tho older girl could tell me ins ex pt that h her r enter had been like this thin KM as w scum on oil as aa they th the r It u Iced bad scared bet hei h and she hl hwd hod to m me meBy J Dy By y non it wee nn near noor is U o io k kA A writer I like 1 I suppose et l I this stage In lu the game geme v mild l lw have ve gun Kon Konto gunto to 10 the th window tar out oUI st the tho city elty with eyes that KJ sac into a mil tall lion hones home Into et ensa and the tho like Would hay have felt frit the great ret hush that la lay over ocr th town Trot For Iii n a 1 few tew minutes the hour would find and Christman day dy w with Its message of pence peace and 1 good will to men would begin Hut I 1 was waft only a 1 doctor with witha a damnably bitter blUer message to standing by b tho the window 1 I only racked my ny brains for tor some seine other way out of ot atthe tho the trouble Well or she flie he asked al ed from front behind me mI Its It nervous prostration and a bad had badon case on Shell have hac to quit work go to the country and ond stay ilia there get a I good rest NIt test Two months at least leat How lIow t she ho asked WAS IT MERRY CHRISTMAS This of ot course was Willi the tha trouble I 1 wont scent over It all In ht my mind again Hospitals wont take suck such cases cuse they the lie ate Ie overcrowded at nt this time of year Charitable organizations wont send a 01 girl to tho the country PI two to month months freo when the tho girl has ha US Its saved At toast least not last winter where were UK wo many sick nick girls who n R cent Anti Ami A rul what monO money I 1 had hat I had already used med Have Hare you no relatives None There watt was one on of ot those Iho e long mean silences IIII You mean that MS US 41 she said Im Jm sorry orr Yos 1011 Another twi tense c silence She was 1113 quiet enough Well she he said titan then It cant b be helped Anyhow thanks for coming so IIO late hUe at night Perhaps you ou can ean onto como again tomorrow and tell tIll mo me m where whereto to send lInet liar nar h r What ought I to give gho h her tr r tonight OO As An I J was Wol giving a few brier brief diced the midnight bells bell began on to tl strike Some SomA fool tool across the courtyard threw open Orion wide his hili window and boute Merry terr Christmas to somebody room rooming lilt lag down below helon Yes Yea the girl pulled through It 11 wiped out tit tl e money mone of or course Thy They re II Ih InK Ing still In tho the same namo furnished room Th This younger ouner one got back her job In Inu InIn Ind Sim Simla d u a aIn In la August she came ame to me for tor a and told al i t they had lin l already I 13 saved I Jo Ive vo tried triad to 10 her hr her Job but bul times are still tart hard and nn Jobs Jub urn are ten few Ho ilo II shell probably stay so when hl she hll In Ill do what hilt I cnn can canto to o pull her bar through this coming mery As A to what whitt you to write rUt theres no tto need of ot adding 1111 many litany rants Ask Ak your ur renders to la look Iok for w they thy the fixer faces behind tA the Ih counters Only an sit a doctor d tor I 1 want wad to tl add this thin Most dont know that In iii tene tenc tenement ment rooms cheep warding hoarding house houll houserooms rooms roO thousands thousand of men women woman and mill young girls some nothing nut but bill kids Mdelle lle Ile II sick and exhausted on day Ive 10 heard hurd bitter talk on nick k boll loth but bill none HO so 0 littler hitter ns RII talk Ie JH lowed heard then thell Hospitals nil all up way 6 over thou their limit lima Five Fh or r six hundred at t I t from tram N Nw New w York Yorks busy bU bus shops one ai al nick In b bood bd d for tUI a week or more inure INI ably II 1 close elite to tn a 11 hundred die dielA lA r Its nut not only jut just after fter Christ Christina mall ina that trouble In this tense tens rushing lushing Iu city cU Ufa lit the keen k n autumn months sod slid the month months of ot December l me OIl tI tin to tn store stars UI up the strength 1 het takes lakes people through the mw raw months he d Step lip I their tJ lt strength lh nt lit Christ Christmas sac mas sad r pneumonia a finds easy victims In Much March So t n the shadow of Christmas Is I tIll cast ahead IlI 18 IS A SPAY AVAY W Y OCT OlT OI T hs to b be dime It this Jovi Jovial al rush rush Of course Its a R knotty knott l The public I sup suit UI lies HM might do 10 Its shopping earlier curlier nr In 15 a tune some WilY fore tho the big stores store by law to In lilts hire oven eten moro inure extra help hell than II lIn they do 10 say work wink them In dy day slid nd evening shifts Of or Morse there hart Is III n a way out If It the Hi th public wires cares to 10 find and U It Its Jl It a pity pit come nemo t Olle may moy sa lid sato lidh lay to h furor foron such rouell gloomy thoughts on us its itson III on I tilt duy Its t a II time hue for hap hp Christmas Is I 1 pil huts thaI what I 1 was thinking myself my myself m self elf as aro I the tho white hll taro fate of nf thus the child on the lied bed 1 Yes Tee It Its a knotty knoll problem On One of or the kind that Christ 1 I suppose would be tackling If It h Ie he were fOrtI here on this mighty birthday birth birthday day a of or Ills hula hi followers gather ather round oun Christmas trees to celebrate his hi name nam |
