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Show Lesson in Poor Widow's Gift to the Red Cross THE Intense nnd widespread Interest In the work of soliciting funds for tho , Red Cross, among all classes, is thus Impressively described by Mrs. Mary Katherlnc Hnnsbrough In the Tnmpn Tribune: "I rend in the morning paper of Morgan's gift of n million dollars to .. the Red Cross fund In New York city "3ti. wf lojfk 1 and I compared It to n gift made In 'Mff , I l ll Tampa to the Woman's Red Cross com- lltiFuS I L Y5S.lffl mltteo of which I wns chairman. 'llllmSjli IK?tlli "Wo were working the very poor- 'I HLvJ PvlPi " est district of Tnmpn, where tho strug- lfc Wj S 1 1 J F gle for existence Is n raw tragedy, iMJiw5EHj! vl7 U Ij where tho contributions, willingly --DuifliU Wl""lli I mnde from tho necessities of life, were -M vyfll WHcl' ' nickels and dimes. In an Ill-kept cot- -? MTtI) JIWPPk - Nf tnge, bare of furniture and every sem- '.S'ifiagj'g g bianco of comfort, I found n woman bj- , ' ' nnd three children. Her shoulders were bent with lnbor, her hands were hardened with toll, her hulr streaked with the gray of sorrow und poverty, but her eyes were still ullght with human sympathy. I talked to her a bit about my mission and the soldier boys wo were sending away from the America they loved so well. Her eyes filled with tears and she asked w 1st fully : "'Would you let mo give you two cents? It Is nil I have and I would llko to feel that I havo helped some soldier even such a little bit.' "Suddenly I was carried back 1000 years to a temple In Jerusalem. I saw tho millionaires making their gifts and tho widow casting In her mite nnd heard tho voice of the Master : 'She hath cast In more than they all.' "The two cents may not buy comfort for a wounded soldier but tho Influence Influ-ence of its loving bestowal should touch every heart." |
