The evening times., 1896-06-19
IS READY TO LIVE AGAIN
Little Lillian Lovelace Rapidly
Improving in Health.
BE WELL IN TEN DAYS
Kind Treat nent at the Hospital Has
Brought Her Around-The Future
Looks Dark, Though, for she Has
But Few Fricnds-Something Must
He Done for Her.

Little Lillian Lovelace is rapidly i'm
proving under kind treatment ut the Gar
field Hospital
She is the young girl who was found the
other day in such Il terrible condition in a
miserable cellar room in the rear of
basement shoe-shop at 326 street. Her
situation is most pitiiul, and deserving of
something more substantial than mere
sympathy, which can be extended when the
circumstances surrounding her case are
known.
A Times reporter called ut the hospital
this morning and saw the child. She has
been so weak and feeble up to within
the past four or five days that no one eX-
cept her grandmother. Mrs. Bent, has been
permitted to see her, though many who had
read of the sorrowful case have visited
the hospital to inquire after her welfare.
The girl is about fifteen years of age;
slender, but of womanly form. Her short,
Jet black hair, which was cOmbed in be-
coming style and tied in the back with a
black ribbon, was IN striking contrast to
her thin, pale face and sunken eyes.
Her pinched featuresand worn countenance
told of the suffering she had endured.
RECEIVED GREAT CARE.
She was dressed in a common shirt waist,
with simple black skirt aud belt, which
are all the outer garments the girl Possesses.
She was somewhat averse to talking about
her financial condition.
Everyone she said, had been very kind to
her, and She had received every care and
attention. The girls at the Bon Marche,
where she had worked for a brief period,
had raised SO for her, and it had been
most gratefully received.
Up to the first of this week she had occu-
pied private ward, and though it had been
given free the regular price of $50 a week
seemed like a fortune to the child, us
she apparently thought of the real neces-
sites of which she so sorely stands in need.
DR.. Marlowe, whois to be credit ed for bav-
ing the child removed to the hospital, visits
her daily, aud to him She considers her
life is due
The girl is very bright. Since she has been
out of bed, for the past few days, she has
been reading a book called Darker Days. :"
1t was not love novel, she explained, but
story OF person who had met repeated re-
verses in life aud finally trumphed. She
thought it might well happen to her case.
her. are the cots of Mrs. Buxton and Miss
Maud Buxton, the victims OF the Gathers
burg tragedy, with whom she has made fast
friends. ll,e
HOW SHE FEELS.
81 feel as If l ought to do something to
help pay my way hereli' she said, land so
/ help the nurses all ] can, and carry the
food from the dining loom to tie patients.
81 am anxious tS ~ home, but do not
know what am tp do when get there.
Papa is in Newport News and is unable to
get Work. and my poor GRANDMOTHER can't
take care Of me. the allows, me to
eat anything now. and do enjoy it So"
Mrs. Bent. the g5pnalmother. nalm called this
morning and brousltithc little une some
slight tokens sent by friends. The doctors
think she will he entirely well in about ten
days. but. owing TO her destitute crcum-
stances, tile worst may yet come.