The sun., 1901-05-12
NOW MISS CHASE HAS GONE.
ARTLESS AND SWEET. SHE CAPIIvATED
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS.
Loan Her Money while She Was Engaged In
Gods work. Why. Yss-Quite the Thing to
Have Her to Dinner . Delightful
Borrower-A Broken Idol. They Sigh.


Gods work. why. Yes-0uite the Thing to
Have Her to Dlnncr--Suoh . Delightful
Borrower-A Broken Idol. They sigh
reluctantly and with a heavy heart, vastly
more In sorrow than In anger. Columbia
Heights Brooklyn. has yielded TO the convic-
ton that Miss Chase" is no better than she
should be- And yet even now the Heights
bas moments when II feels that. after all.
it may be mistaken; that maybe Miss Chase"
will still stand vindicated a. better, q vast
deal better. than she should be. But at tho
present writing--that is. at the last moment
when the sentiments Of the Heights were
colls cted-it was the general consensus Of
opinion that she isn't
As the Heights. throwing OF the last ves-
tse Of the hypnotic spell cast over 1t by the
adroitly meek. modest. low-voiced Miss
Chase" overhauls. not so much tho soothing
words as tho strange deeds Of tho vanished
siren, tho melancholy verdict 10 that she Is a
regular wrong un' That IL not the way
the Heights puts II. but that 10 what the verdict
comes to-
And the curious thing is that nobody on the
Heights quito knows how Miss Chase came
among them. She seemed suddenly TO bo
evolved out OF the rareied Heights atmos-
phsre and TO be with them and Of them. With
out Introduction. coming no one know whence.
tho gentle-voioed. sweet-faoed little woman
with her frank earnest faith In her mission
OF promoting the study OF the Scriptures.
hsr quiet air Of good breeding. her perfect
taste In dress and her touching little wom-
anly ignorance Of money things and the still
more touching little embarrassments In
which this delightful financial experience
involved her and out Of which IL was such
genuine pleasure to help the dear artless
thing suddenly--no one quite knew how or
why-permeated all tho Heights society.
To md Miss Chase at dinner was quite
a. natural to the psterfamilas ofthe Heights
a. TO nnd his own wife and children there.
II was not an invasion. Ono day there was
no such person as Miss Chase Tho next
day Miss Chase was matter OF course
something that no Heights home was COM
plcts without.
Nobody seemed to AJAX whence she oamo.
Nobody had tho remotest idea how she got
there The FIRST thing that was known
Mas Chase was among then all and one
OF hen--eating their dinners. telling OF the
dear society at Worcester for the develop
lamenting tho evil days that were leading
people from the grand old New England
custom OF searching the Scriptures. and
20 earnest and 50 enthusiastic in her zeal TO
bring back those good and pure old timos
By instructng and training u lay force Of
leaders and teachers OF the Bible.
And she never asked for money. oh.
dear. mol She was In close touch with a
publishing firm In Worcester and another In
Springfield and sho left In the Heights homes
gave as presents beautiful little religious
volumes that came from these Laboratories
Of pious literature. OF course there were
her embarrassments-puzzl things about
monoy-that is. about not having Il Just when
she wanted It at some crucial little moment
when Just little moro would have helped her
on 90 very much in her good work. 1t quite
veIed her at times. And somehow she did
not tell this. The homes on the Heights
where she visited somehow OWNED II through
the artlsss outbursts Of her zeal in the cause
Help Ter oyer these miserable little money
obstacle-t Why OF course you helped her
lol couldn't help helping her. II was just
natural somehow. TO do It And then, IN
hey own impul-ivc, generous way she had
given away all her money. and there was a
dI,dgreelbe man bOtheriug her about the
rent of her fat that dear mysterious little
fti somewhere No one quite knew Just
whore 'Nn Att was Her accounts of how
TO GET there were 80 Charmingly confused
FlgSt You went up and then you wont down.
and then came into nowhere town and there
you wore Al any rate state street was in
yolved somewhere in getting 70 it and then
there Was NeNIUs street mixed up in II sOmc-
whef" And these were the only solid land
mg place, there were on the road to that
charming no,t Of innocence. These werc
TIE only hard facts there we're these and
tho absurd circumstance that the rent was
due
md they help her 10 pay that re0t2 Well, !
rather Fiyc-d0llqr bills, two-dJllar bills. and |
larger bIll- ~tli, why. they were AeII out 10 |
hcr an around The only fear in giviuy her |
money was that The dear. generous ming |
beforr that dl,agrccabie rent pcrSon ne caWsht
~ with mr.
For many davs Miss Chase" thus nuttrred |
brightly IRON home 10 home on NJ heights
a prominent member ~ Plymouth ChIrrh !
Mr. Si irryV IowrlIoflGi to'uubi, bctybts
and Prot Rp-,j'rr " Raymond, long nnr
n 'L. pll1., or pIyw.vM Ihuuh. ot which /
tho E.y Dr Newell Dwi-hr IIil,l,i i pa, a,tor ali .
m ... know Ms. Ch4.n" and believed In bpI
And with every umn they -qw her they tne,y
lar better or thou. no they dd-and be-
,nr"i in her moro, beyond any question Of
Ngt 'h"N thoro aro alwavs doubling
lhnuH~c, IN this ln!-h world and one day
In the height Of 'Nri.s tnr.e'-" Caroer rrror
'hew Nrn'" % the Publishing firm in NorcD-- !
.er H'd - tho 2. b.'-hjug firm In SpringicI
and ov"' ~ the Boston SUNDAY school riuu,
a'' - =" - -nN a.. of 'u"-r concerns oddly
."r ruH1rei Nj Chase Then son chuiv
wrote . N"w Bedford and got % r"ply that
Mi Chase lnd'"t had been there and
hI' -hchdl lefia-oT,U,ng wake Of creditors
And tron on tie heels " IN. came dark
fn~."- Of costumes costing a. high ~ $50
N 'H MISS Chg-"' lld bought IN depart
e'' stores lu EruoklNn, using tho names