The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-19
ADOPTED TWENTY-FIVE
KINDLY WOMAN WHO HAD A
HEART FOR THE MoTHERLEss
st. Paul Woman Who Has Returned
From Europe Thinks We Might
Learn Some Lessons From Oider
Countries How She Was Treated
Here and Abroad.


The story of the woman who adopted
tyantv-five children and brought them
nm n he good citizens and then re-
GRATED that she was too old to take
more has a very large moral to II.
There is more of Christian charlty III
taking children out of orphan asyiuns
than there is in putting them In, al
though there are occasions When II -
a great mercy to the little ones TO sehA
them to some institutions OF that KIM,
Rut what a different world this would
be if all childless parents, VINO are aple
TO. would give homes to the honleleSS
ones. Perhaps before long we Would
he able to get along without asyluns
and homes" What blessed time that
would be, for oh, the world OF diLer-
ence there is between nome ana
homei Do you remember that story OF
Hopkinson Smiths about the two Ola
divers who had been lifelong frlends
One-Tom-ha eleven children, anu
John had only two. Finally John lost
his life. and his friend, Tom, took MS
wife and two children home and cared
for them as his own. When some one
spoke to Tom about it and said Whae
a noble thing it was for him to 90,
Tom failed to see anything remark
able about it, and, replying, said that
it was fortunate for poor John that 1t
was not he who had lost his life, for ne
had eleven children for John to take
care of. 1t never occurred to him that
there was anything unusual about TINS
procedure.
A st. Paul woman who has Just re-
turned from wear in Europe was
talking to Marie recently about some OF
the contrasts between the old and new
countries, and, strange to say, thougn
she is a patriotic American, she -dlo
l. hot AlaA nYofi
countries had everything to learn from
ns and We nothing from them. On the
contrary she drew some comparisons
between the courtesy of the people over
there and that of similar classes here,
that were not in our favor. She spoke
particularly of the treatment Of GUS
toners in the shops In Paris, she
said, the women who waited upon her
were so very courteous and helpful
that it was a delight to buy. On the
contrary, she remarked, the way she
was treated in st. Paul store the
other day was a sharp contrast. She
said she went into the ready-made de-
partment of a certain store here and
it was some time before any Of the
young, women even rose to their feet 10
wait upon her. Then she found some
thing she wanted to try on, she put 1t
on entirely without assistance, while
the young woman sat in chair and
waited until she had struggled with
the hooks. She thought of Paris and
sighed. Now, this is all wrong; and
there is too much truth in what she
said.
Another thing of which she spoke
was of the electric car service in Turin.
Italy which is so perfect that we might
take some lessons from it. Fancy our
condescending to learn anything from
Italy, which we are pleased to call
effete and decaying. And yet this st.
Paul woman says we can learn a great
deal from Italy and much that we sore
ly need. 1t is surely difficult for US to
realize that we don't know it all. How
ever, this country is good enough for
most of US,