Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
COUNTRY PEOPLE.
Bah Proves Their Kindness and SYM
pathy With One Another.

LIVING NEAR TO HUMANITYS
HEART-RICH IN HOSPITALITY
LITTLE CHARLOTTE TEMPLE"
RECUPERATING IN THE COUN-
TRY THE TOUCHING STORY OF A
WAIF OF THE STAGE-"I GOT so
TIRED OF BEIN EVA"-LIFE IN A
THEATRICAL BOARDING HOUSE.
THE DISSIPATED MOTHERS
VIEW OF THE LOSS OF HER
CHILD-THE CURTAIN DROPS ON
SUFFERING CHARLOTTE BE
YOND THE SMILING AND THE
NG"-THEC COUNTRY CHILL
DREN PAY TRIBUTE TO HER
MEMORY.
F'rom Our Regular Correspondent
Loeb Sheldrake, N. Y, Sept. 4, 1885.
One has to be not only in the very
heart of the country, but in the heart OF
the country people to realize how good
and kind they are, and how close they
become, in a neighborly way, TO each
other. Joys are doubled by the SYM
patty of ones neighbor; sorrow is light
ened by the willingness OF the neighbor
10 help bear the burden. And all life
is made better by people living IN a
natural kindly way, each near TO the
heart of humanity. And they are so
rich in hospitality. This year | sit out
under the shadow of one Of the big trees
and try to read. The book drops from
my hand, my eyes close and see a PIC
ture Of last year. Word went out from
| the household that there would be well
come one little city girl, who had no
country people of her own to go to.
! She was not to be older than seven
years. and the Fresh Air Fund was ask
ed to please select a gentle little girl.
/ One bright afternoon we went TO meet
her. and when she was lifted on the
train, she stood a picture OF fright ana
misery. Small for her years, she had
! long fair curls and great big blue eyes,
while her clothes were pitiful TO look
at. She was very shy, and that night,
when she was put in high chalr that
once belonged to a baby girl who now
has a baby OF her own, she refused to
eat ANYTHING but bread and tea. She
said, very hesitatingly, that her mamma
told her it was vulgar to eat much
A FRESH AIR FUND TOT.
The next day found us busy making
some clothes for her, and we were IN a
constant state of surprise because OIL
the prim little way she had of speaking,
the correctness Of her language and the
ease with which she carried herselI.
II took us twenty-four hours to ind out
her name and when she said it was
charlotte Temple" our eyes grew big
with amazement. Later on she con-
fded to me that that was not her real
name and still we were too stupid to
understand. On the fifth day she gave
MS the information that her mamma
was 4 professional, and she said this
with as much pride as if the aforesaid
mamma had been q leader or the fOui
Hundred. And then we understood
This poor little lady was a child OF the
stage. who worked hard during the Jhe'
atrical season, and, as we aIJerWaru
found out. helped to support her mother
and her father. Her only glimpse OF
home life was that which she got by
being counted in with the children OF
the street. Perhaps you do not kno"
that the Fresh Air Fund only permits
each child to stay two weeks. SO, BE-
fore the first week was up, we wrote
and had her time extended, for we
wanted 10 send Charlotte Temple back
with the plumpness of a partridge and
with cheeks red from health and not
from rouge. She took an immense
amount of interest in her new frocks,
and when she heard that the Sunday
school was to give an entertainment
she begged and pleaded for PERMISSION
to recite at it.
A MINIATURE HAMLET.
At last consent was given, and fancy
orr establishment when Charlotte Tenn
ple. aged seven years, recited "To be or
not to be" with the stiff gestures pecu-
liar to the late Lawrence Barrett. An
enthusiastic encore brought her out
again. and the tears streamed. down my
face as this baby repeated "The Little
White Horse" She was happy llIlle
tot in her own quiet way, devotlng her-
self to chasing sunbeams and playing
with the puppies. dressing the very
newest in an old nightdress and singing
il TO sleep. We tempted her appetite,
and taught her to eat some
thing else besides bread and
tea. and when letter came
from her mother ordering her to come
home. as she had an engagement for
her. we all escorted Charlotte Temple
to the station, saw her safe ON the
train, with the Youngest puppy IN a
basket. huge bouquet OF flowers, a
box of luncheon, and a tiny trunk 1lleo
with an entire new outfit for her
She promised to write to us and TINS
| letter came about a month after she
had gone:
My dere Missis Mary
| got home all rite & L am engaged
TO play Eva mi mOmma vii play two
but my poppa vii not could not keep
the puppi-my momma sold him luv
Il al & vii cum mex sumer am til
deth do us part
yurs fecshunately,
CHARLOTTE
temple.
AN UNTNIELY VALENTINE.
Poor Charlotte Temple! The worka-
dav time was beginning early with her
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