| Show nard nara Ti joew 1 1 1 s si 3 A WIDOWS A 1 10 I 1 A gentle gentie gentleman man a member of the firm of wilcox gibbs met meta n lady volunteer visitor of the guild and requested her to examine into the merits of a case with which ho he had accidentally become acquainted this lady called at the address given a bac bae backroom haek baek kroom room in the upper story of a rear house in sixth street here in one of the worst tenements of a wretched district she found a starving widow with two sick children if the he room she do scribes as an oasis of cleanliness in a desert of filth nith tho the floor was polished white and tho the few articles ea cles cies 3 of furniture a table two chairs and a cot bed were scrupulously neat tho the only food in tho the house was vas a dry crust enist of bread which one of the children was diw dividing alding into three parts one for his little sister oue one for his mother motherland mot heraud herand and one for himself the poor woman told her simple story born and married in england she had come to america with her er husband to seek their fortune they had not fared well in the New World save that children welo were born to them to share their struggles and partake of the their r misfortunes A few months ago the husband died of smallpox small smail pox the tile widow eold gild all their furniture save the few articles alluded to above piece by piece to buy bread when tho the last sa leable article had gone and the last morsel hail had been eaten slie found temporary work she was employed by the proprietress of a furnishing furnis lurnis hing store to stitch buttonholes in iri ladies and ga garments she towed owed t till she had earned when wilen her employer sold out her business and disappeared without pay paying her hen held beld how H 0 w she had struggled day and nj night g ht to care for he her r sick children no one can tell her H r quie quiet I 1 heroism in the midst of destitution tit ution lan ian 1 an sickness and sorrow will some soine time win for her a reward greater than that which attends the successful seeker after fame or fortune in at least two hearts the mothers image will bo enshrined in all the glory of love and deyo tion R Y geraid berald craid erald |
