Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-05

own views Of life at the present tlihe'
1t runs
NHught but u soul can know a soul,
a heart a heart awake;
A noble thought draw forth the light,
a kindness kindness make.
A friend is sure to make Il friend,
A foe will make Il foe;
And love shall win love In the end,
AS seed Il plant will grow.
The truth shall ever meet the truth.
And richt and right Shall meet;
And every sweet word spoken
Shall call forth words us sweet.
Deeply contrasting in it, view. yet re-
gardcd by Miss Pastor: nance as one
of his most precious possessions. are
these sad little lines which she once
wrote. at a time when, a Struggling
writer. she was literally suffering from
hunger. having but a crIst Oh bread De-
tween her and starvation.
Little sparrOws, take your fill
OF crumbs from off my window Sill
| know YOU look to me for food
Look to me for livelihood;
And 7 cannot keep the crumb
From such little creatures dumb.
So now pick them off my sill
Little SparrOwS take your I'LL
Take Your fiji! then. chirp Your prayer:
Thank the One who gives His care:
Gives His care. and gives His love.
PourS it from his heart above.
"My last crumb feed to you:
/ pray the Lord to feed me, too
For I'm so hungry brides sweet.
And no noe gives me bread to eat.
THE crumbs you pick were laid away
From bread I ate Ger yesterday.
Since when | have not tasted food
Rut-Iie will care and 'All is good.
MY heart is full my table bare:
Yet All is good and He will cHre:'
So little SparrOwS. take your fill
OF crumbs from off my window sill.
Yesterday writing lines like these.
not out of the impcrsOnality Of mere
poetic imagination out Out Of intimate
and tragic experience Of the terrors Of
want. this toi!ing. ambitious. starving.
splendid little Russian girl. whose soul
was, in n fever to help the humanity
she saw around her. pa:haps never
dreamed some fairy prince would some
day come to her. But today she is the
affianced wife of a millionaire philan-
thropiSt. able and eager to fulfill every
longing. be It for self or others. of her
ardent young soul. This was the dra-
matte Presto. change!" in her Iife
which Fate had in reserve for Miss
Pastor. when. a bar. three years ago
she was sent by a wcli-krown Hebrew
paper of New York TO interview James
Graham Phelps Stokes, who had left
luxurious home to minister to the poor
AS resident ut the university settlement
in Rivingtnn Street.
Surely the olden fairy tales are
right and our present-day cynicism
wrong: surely we will now be obliged
to say. "As true as a fairy tale" when
such things happen. Toll. obscurity.
brave surmounting spirit finally re-
warded by the dazzling event Of the
fairy prince. 1t is the story of Gin
derella over again. And. rs i'm the too
OFT disdained fairy tale, difficulties are
leveled, the sky swept clean of clouds
and everyone made happy as the day
is long. A mistaken report arose at
first that the parents of Mr.. Stokes.
now travelling in Europe. disapprovcd
the match. That this is completely
false is eloquently shown forth by the
following calbcgram from them. re-
Gently received by him:
"Tunis. Algeria. March GIVE most
congratulate you and wish
you all joy and happiness. Give our
love to Rose"
Much that is tawdry and sensational
has been written about this genuine
romance. which. told in simple outline.
nd fvne
stories Of two Of the young BRIDE
elects prototypes i'm Hebrew sacred
of Ruth, who won the
heart of BoaZ while cleaning in the
wheat field. and of Esther whose pas
sionate loyalty to her downtrodden
people brought her to share the throne
of the magnificent Ahasuenis. Miss
Pastor while cmphatically and proud
ly working girl and daughter of |
The EAST Side" element is not. as has
been said. a child of the streets. The
head worker Of the university settle.
ment, under whose roof the love affair
grew up. made this plain in his recent |
statement that, while it is true that
Miss Pastor at one time earned her
Ming by rolling cigars, it is simplv q
Ease where worthy young woman
lid not reach her proper sphere until
,ate had ordained that she should.
Miss Rose Harriet Pastor is % wears
If age. She was born July IS. 1879. in
Augustovo. Suwalk. Russia, When
hree wears old she was taken to Lon.
ION. where Ter parents. respectable
Jewish people. struggling for a foot
loid In that great maelstrom. gave her
Ill the education she was ever to re-
GIVE by set forms and from textbooks
Few years in the common schools.
When Rose was IL her father died
ND the family-the mother. herself,
no nVe younger children-crossed the
ceah TO America. They settled in
'leveiand. Rose was notya strictly :