The evening times., 1896-11-04
CHAR|Ff's LOAD TOO HEAVY
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne LathrOp
Lying on a Bel of Sickness.
HER SELF-CHOSEN HOME
She Went to Live with the Poor and
IN Nurse Them for the Dread Dis
ease ef Cancer-She Is suffering
With Pneumonia-Hope Felt for
Her Recovery.

1 New York, Nov. Mrs. Rose Haw
| thorne Lutbrop has fallen victim TO he
| own devotion To the suffering poor fheu
| monia has stricken her in the midst o
her seIf-saCri ficing work on the Eas
| Side, and she lying seriously Ill In mel
| tenement quarters, No. / Scanned street
So patient and gentle a victim is she
| that even her fashionable friends uptown
have not known work OF her misfortune.
only the poor, among whom she elects tC
| live, know and Grieve over what has be-
fallen the gracious woman who lives among
them in order tuat she may bring comfort
and sympathy into their lives.
In her East Side lodging Mrs Lathrop
is being attended by an East Side doctor,
and visited only by East Side friends
humble, grateful friends OF her own ina t.
ing. And yet she has the best care that
the most luxurious of individuals cOuid
wish for. '.'r
A devoted woman, woman whose life
has been spent in the care OF the sick,
and who had ioined Nathaniel Hawthorne's S
daughter in order To help her In her
work, is layishing upon the sick woman
all the attention that skill and aifec-
ton can dictate. And to one or Mrs.
I.athrop's acute sensibilities, affection and
comradeship count for more than mere
luxury.
STRONG HOPES OF HER RECOV ERY-
The physician who is ATTENDING Mrs La
throp W as III ore hOI "ful OF her recovery yes
tcr,lay than he had lcen for many days.
lie believes that ii is only a Question or
time and careful nursing now to restore
her TO her cid yiGOr. What lie most fears
is that his dintineui shed patient may allow
her enthusiasm for her self-chosen WORK
to tempt her to renewal ol cxcrtioh ne
fore the period Of cGnvaleScencc Is Iassed
That period has not yet lceun- ana u VIII
bro - al IL
In leave her led: hut even at the height OF
her Illness she was thinking and speaking
constantly Of her patents, Sud chafing at
her enforced idlcnuSs rather than at her
pain and weakness.
IL has been an anxious time at No. l
SCANNED street The tenants Of the house
and of the EcighhOring houses ana cf the
neighbOring streets have taken almost as
deep an interest in the welfare OF the SUI
fercr as her own nurse. There is a little
hov ou the floor leiuw who feels for her
very keenly. He is a whitc-faCcd boy VINO
does NOS play with the other children roun Il
about. because there is something the mat
ter with his knee, and he is Il cripple
He loi;ers about the stairs these dayS,
listening wistfully for the door upstairs
to omen, and sometimes tohtlng painfully
inward SO that he can hail the nurse an d
ask her whet her the lady lS Letter, aht
whether he can do anything for her Ana
when the IOlstcruus children Of the neigh
rgrUoOd stray anywhere within caIshut of
No Scanned rect in their games OF tag
or whatnot, this white faced hoy limps forth
and with earnest gestures cntrcats them
to go away. so that the lady" may not be
disturbed.
No ONE ALLOWED TO SEE HER.
By the doctors orders no one - allowed
IL see MIS-. Lathrop. Her East Side Wis
ilors must be content to hear the news of
her condition from the nurse outside the
door Of her tiny rooms That door Is dis
tiucuiSl!ed from the other doors in the tehC-
u!emt by an iron knoCkcr attached 10 IL III
the English fasitien- And the rooms with
in are distinguished from their neighhors
only by their dazzling cleanliness. and the
flowers and religious emblemS with which
they are adorned.
Mrs. Lathrup i the youngest daughter OF
Nathaniel Hawthorne. and the wife u
George Parsons Lathrop. the writer. a rev
years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Laihrop created
sensation iU society By renouuCing the Cnita-
ran faith ur their New England fathers anu
becoming Roman Catholics.
Within the last Few months MIS-. Lathrop
gave rise to another ripple OF polite agita-
lion bv taking a course of instruction Is !
nurse in the New York Cancer Hospital, and
then establishing herself III the tenement
quarter to nurse inCurable sufferers who
we're too poor to receive proper attention
She threw herself into this labor OF love
with so much energy that she contracted
uleurisy. which was the precursor or her
r,rasput att ork uf UutuIupp.a.