Show 4 1 i zt I 1 I 1 fler I 1 I 1 1 UEE I 1 SAD STORY OF POOR LILY THE DWARF I 1 she had soul and mn mind but I 1 use bar body wat was V dl that chat of a child children of her own A to in ply with her N the floor of the I 1 little room used by the family as a parlor r where she had suffered all a I 1 I 1 her h e r I 1 child sorrows and known cerione joy lay the small frail 11 body of uly getzoff the dwart dwarf who killed herself the other night in new york her sisters and brothers gazed with dumb grief at the black shroud which hid her familiar features from them in the corner her mother sobbed aloud and called the child wo m man by name almost within touch of the little folded hands so terribly scarred with the marks rna k ot of the acid with which ae killed herself was the piano that was the little dwarfs sole source of happiness in the life she has ended lily was waa born bom in russia seventeen years ago the family were possessed of some wealth and when hen it was seen that lily their first born was weakly and leftely to die the father devoted his bis small fortune to saving the girls life it was five years before she could talk or walk like other children but the start once made her progress was wonderful and soon she became known as the brightest of all other children had come to max getzoff and his wife another daughter and a son but none was so dear as lily whose laugh bred happiness eight years ago the family came to america and the father started a delicatessen store at madison street new york living in the rear they were prosperous but sorrow had been born to his daughter lily whose trail frail body grew no larger her mind developed and broadened and a deeper soul looked out of the blue eyes but the form f arm that prisoner ored it remained like blittle a little childs it was the family who first discovered this calamity but the knowledge of her misfortune soon dawned upon the girl giri too she was helplessly hopelessly a dwarf doctors were called in and men learned in the profession were prayed to cure the childs infirmity but their wisdom availed nothing there was no deformity for mity no unsightly hump or stoop merely the strange phenomenon of arrested development that chained to the girls advancing years a body that belonged to a child of 8 neither did her features grow older or wizened but remained as they had been like a ba bys As the knowledge of her affliction and its meaning grew a melancholy settled upon the child and she remained alone she read all that she could get to read and became fluent in russian german and english her knowledge was great and the little dwarf came to be looked upon as the oracle of the tenements but the children of her own age shunned her half in awe tacey aliey tried to consign her to girls of her size their games were barred to her and in their enjoyment she had no share she would watch from the doorway when they danced in the street and many have seen her turn her chi child id face to the wall and cry as women do 1 I am alone aloie she often said to her father the little children I 1 cannot play with the older ones will never play with me grown people treat treal me as a child and children look upon me as aa a witch they tear fear me r 40 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 ULY LILY and andi 1 must mast live ap apart ikirt to comfort her herthe the father bought the little dwarf a piano and ail for bior a while it seemed as if with it sho coul forget the lack of other companionship she learned fast the tiny fingers could not stretch an octave yet like infant prodigies she lew learned to render the worlds ai ot the I 1 icat im masters hour after hour perched on the stool atoo her er afeei teet not near jy to touching the floor sho she crould play ahe he scores of grand gravid operas alei b ra ther aber samuel I 1 her lunior junior but big and ta tan I 1 1 to i baythe pay the violin dathel and the two P 4 together kl I 1 days d ays and ad nights bhea M thet the I 1 thisie adnot not wish to play yet ped UP pt of the child J woman reamed 1 for music to express t urr her 1 the neighbors say sib she boil aba I 1 haird I 1 I 1 improvising weira elrd aft ide I 1 0 I 1 soup 0 aal ayl 11 M and zhe she would alt add I 1 afagh t div tn ji s to ibi 1 7 11 lit ul Y I 1 T A it I 1 camejo came toabe waxel eare 11 U r I 1 1 cw 1 I over I 1 et 1 it th I 1 I 1 jl jr i A ai 1 J t lur K ta i I 1 i Q k 7 k 11 4 I 1 d rc 1 kiil I 1 k 1 I 1 I 1 d a i p t 67 so i 6 it f 1 V oman f 17 1 I 1 bu tf V ii 03 11 a af L ih I 1 t 4 g E T sta st 1 adf y fety af r I V IV custom to aid all she ae could about the 1 house and the little hands were never idle she could do much that was useful and her st sisters beautiful and well grown left the little unfortunate to tb help their mother two weeks ago a malady came to the frail body the doctors said that it was rheumatism and the hands became cramped and useless and the fingers could no longer bring music from the ivory keys eya then hope left the little body and she took refuge from her sorrows in death there was no bright future for her nothing but the dark abyss of despair and to her mind there was no other way to turn for relief |