OCR Text |
Show A LITTLE GIRL LOST. A little girl six years old came in to tho Standard office last evening. Her evfis wprp rrri -with rrvlnc Thin in brief, is the story she told: "I don't know where my mamma Is. We have no home. We came from Price, where my papa was placed in jail because he would not work for us. I went to school with a little girl. I lost her and cannot find where we stay." The Standard called on the police for aid and later the child was restored re-stored to the care of the Martha society. so-ciety. This is a peep into the homes of misfortune. We presume drunkenness drunken-ness is at tho bottom of this crime against a tiny child. This baby starts life dreadfully handicapped. She iB to be buffeted, and If, through adversity, adver-sity, the child reaches womanhood without her spirit of self pride broken down, she can thank her guardian angel, which may be a kind woman, a thoughtful man or just mere good fortune for-tune entering accidentally into her life. Not many years ago a mother and a child, made the victims of similar conditions, would have no sheltering nook. Then the world was as chilly as a commercialized people could make it, and charity was handed out in response to beggary. Today America Amer-ica is developing a heart and a soul, for which we can thank the good women of this country. There now are places of refuge for deserted wives, struggling mothers, and homes for hungering, poorly clothed, lonely children. |