Show one year without kuin ruin two yeara years afterward it was said to one visiting that tenement house 1 I wish you could see the woman who lives here pointing to one of the tenements but ehe she ie is out coming lack back the woman was passed in one of the alleys and the expression with which she looked at the guide was such as the visitor had never seen on any human face it suggested the mount of transfiguration she invited the caretaker and the visitor into her room she carried on her arm a baby eight months old a beautiful boy the visitor knew there was a soul history to be told and briefly tills this is it that mother from the time she was sixteen years old had never been off the island longer than eleven days shoo sho married a huckster whose record almost equaled hers the story of their first married life is ano horrible to contemplate rarely was either seen without the marks of the finger nails or the boots of the other but for one year neither husband nor wife had appeared before the police court judge nor had either of them tasted that which robbed them of manhood or womanhood aril lood their home was as clean as could be and the husband brought his earnings every night to the caretaker and three months before had opened bis his first bank account christian union |