New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-08
ST CECILIA VAS DEPOSED.
THE LITTLE INvALID's MOTHER LIKED PATENT
MEDICINE POSTER BETTER.
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THE LITTLE INvALID'S MOTHER LIKED PATENT
MEDICINE POSTER BETTER.
Work at the college settlement has, like almost
every other phase Of lfe its sad, Its tragic and its
tender side. and one must keep steady control
over the heart, nine times out Of ten il will
run away with the head. and dash It up against
hard corner in the wall Of social experience,
which is not pleasant and often tounces the milk
Of human kindness out Of ones nature. But those
interested in "the other half" find humorous side
there we'll 1t is not always the fippant jocu-
larty which the professional funny man has caught
hold OF. but often pathetic, even grim humor,
which makes you laugh. but Historically, and the
tears never very far back. One day last winter
a college girl who had taken spasmodic interest
In the Rivington-st. house happened TO see J., the
window Of a Twenty-secondst. picture store a copy
OF Naujoks "St Cecilia at the Organ" and she de-
cided TO get II for of her most interesting
patients q hopeless little cripple about ten years
old.
His name was Demosthenes-such weighty
name for such atom Of human!ty-but 1t really
seemed to have brought some classic inspiration TO
the youngser for he displayed a keenly discrmi-
mating taste in matters aesthetic. which apparently
had not come to him as brthrght from his
wofully cosmopolitan parentage and ancestry
The college girl had with her that day manly
escort not that this Influenced the charitable pur-
chase, but the story OF Demosthenes certainty maze
a pretty tale told with bushing cheeks behind
spotted veil as the clerk did up her parcel. But
the picture unwrapped Immediately TOT the
escort insisted that most ridiculousiy elaborate
frame should be added to the gift So ST. Cecilia
with her ornate binding. came TO be quite feature
In the little back ROOM three flights up. over the
LIQUOR saloon, and 1t seemed indeed a continual
source of delight to the little sufferer. But the
tenement walls even thus enlightened. were not
long to hold the diminutive Demosthenes ana news
OF his death came soon.
The other day a young woman went up 10 see
the poor Irish mother. and 10 look over her want
column" which Is always as long as the IRA
ditiona hotel bill OF extras, with Il view 10 md
ing one or two practicable relief items among the
rest What was her surprise on entering the room
10 find the charming Cecilia departed and in her
stead a patent medicine poster flaming from out
the frame. 1t showed gaudy red and yellow
angel of generous proportions offering the world In
general a bottle of some liver regulator The
woman saw my look and remarked, The bye did
git tired of viewin the lady at the panner. and
then bein' near the Ind. thought that were inter
| Somehow the visitor did not want TO laugh then,
but the idea Of Offering this liver-reguating chrome
TO the child kind OF extreme junction. has
something OF the grewsomely incongruous In 1t.
Aferward as she smiled sadly over the episode her
great wonder that in her intense orthodoxy
/ the good woman had not happened on the still
more symbolic poster for Salvador Ointment
which has been decorating blliboards this sum.
mer and which represents His Satanic Majesty
as emerging from the sulphurous realms and being
| interviewed as to the value OF the above ONT
ment for burns.