The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-05
ONE DAY WITH A
CHARITY WORKER
By ARTHUR w. BORTON.

ernoon and see what can be done TO
fix you up. Here's a quarter to get
some breakfast for the youngsters"
Then he quickly disposed of half
dozen other cases.
You hustle around to Robinson's
department store, Mrs. Thompson, and
see the head of the baby linen depart
ment. 1 told her yesterday you were
great at needlework, and she's willing
to give you job. Mind you make
good, and don't get to drinking
again."
The Ex-COnvict.
He turned to a gaunt. hollow-eyed
man, who had been discharged from
State Prison the day before-a nerv-
Gus wreck.
"Out of stir at last Howard" he
exclaimed, shaking him heartily by the
hand. Its bully to see you again.
Well soon get you in shape and find
you a job. You've turned the gang
down for good, have you? That's
good! notwithstanding to fellow
worker-"can you take Howard out
to the home to-day and see him fixed?
Tell them he'll need a good long rest. "
He picked up a ragged little girl,
street urchin of seven years old,
who had been hiding shyly behind the
others. and sat her upon his knee She
trembled with nervousness, and her
eyes were bright with unshed tears.
Say. Polly he said gaily I've got
some chocolate" and he pulled it out
of his pocket. 81 must have known
you were coming, you little wolf"
He waited until she had greedily
devoured the chocolate, and then
asked:
"Well. what's the matter with moth
err now?'
BY slow degrees he coaxed the
story out of her. Mothers cough was
'orful bad"-the child did not know
she was dying of tuberculosis. Moth
er couldn't go to work, and the jani-
tor said they must get out. There had
been no breakfast that morning, and
only few dry crusts last night.
miss Hayes, you had better look
after this case" said the charity work.
er to a woman colleague who had just
produced rag doll for Polly. Get
a doctor, and see whether he thinks
she had better go to sanitarium. |
believe they are Catholics. so you can
get the St. Vincent de Paul people TO
look after the youngsters. Trot along
with Miss Hayes. Polly"
A sweet Faced Italian Girl.
So he weeded out the cases until
there remained only a sweet faced
Italian girl. whose pure beauty recall
ed the Sistine Madonna. She was the
type of girl whom the traveller sees by
the dozen in a days tramp on the up
lands of Calabria-the type of girl
the old Italian masters used to choose
as the models for their pictures Of the
Madonna.
Her age was about twenty. and she
had a WE'LL beloved "bambino" nearly
two years old. A year ago her hus-
band was sitting in a cafe drinking
Marsala with his friends He heard
another Italian mention her name
lightly. and his quick stiletto avenged
the insult. He was sent to State Pris-
on for seven years. and she was left
to shift for herelf and the "bambino. ="
She could have lived luxuriously in
certain way. Was she not the beau
" of Little Italy'?' But she would
not do so, for her native instinct Of
purity had been well trained by the
good sisters of a Calabrian convent.
Voorhees, and starving, she crawled
away, like wounded animal, TO die
alone in miserable garnet in one Of
the worst tenements. There she was
found by some charity workers and
nursed back 10 health and strength.
The "bambino" was well nourishs 1.