Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-05-03
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romance Of Rose Harriet Pastor,
the brilliant and genuinely pbiIan-
thrOphic young Jewess who is to
we'd a millionaire, J. G. Phelps
Stokes, says the Birmingham
News. And when you read you
said, "Oh, be married Der because
he just happened to meet her
doing the same work he was
undertaking."
Not so many years ago this
young woman was a babe in that
most benighted and blighted Of
Of cOuntries-Russia. There the
race and religion Of her father and
mother and their forbears were not
merely frowned on, Int dispised.
Her family and friends have trem
bled under the persecution Of Rus
sian officials; some Of her relatives
may have been brutally knouted;
some may have spent years in that
sOul-destroying landau called
Siberia. But this young woman
as a child was fearless. She felt
that there was work for her.
When she came to America she
looked about her, and her keen
and sympathetic eye caught the
picture OF the crowned Ghetto Of
New York, where many OF her
own ace were gathered in a hud-
die, unprogresiye, unleavened
mass. Though freed from the en-.
vironment that had long crushed
them in their native land, when
they were confronted by the OPP
portunity to rise above the line
of their meaner, lower lives, they
we're old and sheeplike and lead
eress. The constant repression,
caused by cruel customs and
harsher laws, had takenaway
their spirit and killed their ini-
tiative.
Rose Pastor realized that a rare
opportunity had been rendered
her. She went to work seriusly,
schooling herself by day in study
and spending sleepless night seek
ing to solve in some simple fashion
the problems that stand in the
path Of not only her own people,
but that hamper and hold back ali
the poor il the crowded corners
Of cosmopolitan New York. She
found little sOlace in her earlier
work, but never for an instant was
she discouraged. She saw that
sociology as a science was q
splendid staff for the teacher and
leader, but that sympathy alone
made it possible to step down
among the ignorant classes and
point the way. And so, simply
and unOstentatiOusly, she worked,
living among the poor and turning
her talents into a devoted interest
in their welfare
Some years before the birth Of
this little Russian babe, q son was
born to q wealthy family in the
United States. He was named J.
g. Phelps Stokes. The conditions
surrounding him on his entry into
the world we're more than the OPP
posite OF those in which the Rus
sian infant found herself couched.
Young Stokes was destined to be a
wealthy man a leader in society,
and a participatOr in the govern
ment Of q great and free country
where religious federation aud
personal liberty are the pillars
that hold up the constitution.
Possibly his parents and his nncles
and aunts, al proud over the ad-
vent Of a boy into the family, said:
"Well he'll grow up to be a great
fnancier and viii add millions to
those be viii be given By u.s.
When the little Russian girl was
ushered Waillng into a hut the
parents we're not 80 proud, but
they said: "she looks like she
will be q strong woman some day
and 60 peddling or help dig 10 the
feld.n
Now the vision Of the parents in
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