The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-19
DIED OF A BROKEN HEART
The Story of an Aged and Child Aban-
oCned NJ other who Dies at the CID
Ladies' Home.

From the Chicago Ree9iag. Post.
Shlveriug lii the storm Lear learned
how sharper than serpent tooth 1t Is
to have a thankle5s child, and many
others humber than Shakespeare strlk-
en- King have felt the bitter anguish OF
tiliai ingratitude The story Of one OF
these may commence with the announce
ment printed in yesterdays Post, read
ing as follows:
Lux-At the ola Ladies' Home, Sept 9th, of a
broken heart Mrs Ann Link aged 70 years, mother
of Mrs. Arthur Halifax, of this city
To die of broken heart seems a sen
timental way OF stating the decease and
disease Of some one, who, having no
seemingly bodily ailmeht but suffer
ing merely from some great sorrow, has
gone where the weary are at rest; but
in Mrs. Link case the physician called
to see her, found after careful dag
uosis, that each function of her physi-
cal being was in perfect order, and that
her death could be aScribed only to an
injury of the sensibilities greater than
she could BEAR
Mrs. Link had been at the Home only
few days before her decease. She had
been placed there Ivy the kindly charity
of some ladies who had knowledge of
her history, and supplied as far as in
them lay, the place at her side made va
cant by the desertion of an only survl-
wing child. Mrs. Link has resided at
Elgin with a son, whom she gently nur-
sed as he lay upon bed, resting him
in his last sickness. Consumption will
not yield its victim, however tenderly
watched, and the son passed away leav-
ing his mother unprovided for: W hen
his remains had been consigned to the
resting place which the suffering mother
felt would soon be hers as well, she came
to Chicago, hoping to end her days III
the company Of her daughter, the only
child now left to console her old age, an
age greater than that allotted by the pro-
phets. She found the daughters home,
rang the bell and was received by her
child with cold stare which frightened
her.
Will you not then permit me 10 en-
ter your house?" asked the aged moth
Yes replied the coid-hearted daugh-
ter; yes, you may come IN.
But the mother was soon given to IN
derstaud that she was permitted shelter
for short time only, and that before
night she mast find some other resting
place, as she could have no home with
her daughter.
Turned into the street by the inhu-
man child the poor woman sought the
help of those whom she had not brought
in travail. whom she had not nurturea
in infancy. whom she had rot instructed
in youth and guided IN womanhood, and
having absolutely no claim upon them,
Il. m
from Jerusalem to Jericho, that good
Samaritans, though strangers. are better
than Levites, though relatives.
To enter the Odd Ladies' Home it is
necessary to pay a certain fee, something
like 500, and to come provided With
certain articles of furniture. Money and
goods were supplied the child neglected
woman, and it was thought she had
come to haven OF rest, but she, poor soul,
knew that she had merely found quiet
place in which to breathe her last. She
told to those about her the story OF her
suHerings, but, mothet-like, found eXcu-
ses for the sad conduct of her daughter;
She told them that her death was at hand
and begged that they would bury her
near the remains of her son, who.7had he
lived, would have been support to
her. She asked particularly that her
daughter might not be Informed of her
death, because she might not care to
hear it. She died. The daughter was
informed but never came near the Home.
Remorse might have kept her away but
there were not wanting those who ascrl-
bed her absence to indifference.
The same good friends who were care
ful of the old lady's comfort during lie,
we're mindful of the attentions due her III
death. A handsome casket was provI-
ded by them, tie remains Of the poor
old lady were deposited therein and for
warded to Elgin. They now rest as she
had wished they should.
Mrs. Link 5 days were long in the land,
for she doubtless had honored her father
and mother. Her daughter $ disregard
of the commandment viii be judged by
Him who made it.