Show STARVED TO DEATH one instance out of a thousand on the court poverty and want everywhere sickness and lack of food takes the pet of the family san francisco april 15 the city undertaker buried the famished little body 0 florence rosa in a weed covered corner of the paupers field the borrowing mother was obliged to remain in the cheerless but cleanly kept rooms ebe calls ber home in the rear of eighth street to care for her seven remaining rema inina sick and helpless chil area A malignant croup ia what the doctor who deigned the burial certificate said was the of florences death but it was the lack of medicine and proper nourishment that caused the child to die mrs rosa says that it she can keep Bickne ea out of the house she will be able to get along her hubband ia in alaska where he went in search of work lie could not find employment here mrs ROBS iteen not any help from him until the winter drives the vessels back from the north two of her children a boy and a girl were cuddled under a blanket eick with an the elmp toma ot which were the bamo that hastened the end of liolla florence without a bite in the house 1 I can get along all right while the children are well the mother eald as she closed the kitchen door to shut out the view of a barren cupboard then they can care fairly well for themselves and give me an opportunity to work I 1 find little trouble in belling work to do I 1 can make few dollars a week my eldest child a boy of thirteen and the boy next to him sell papers after school they aie the proudest fellows in the city when they a a few mickela home with them I 1 desire to keep them at their studies but it ia difficult to dress them in decent clothing it takes nearly 10 a month to buy them shoes As long the children keep well and can go to I 1 will get along all right we could be worse off I 1 suppose it was ordained that florence should die I 1 should not complain |