The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
ROMANCE or A BUSY CORNER.
TIE SALVATION ARMY WOMAN
VINO cor MARRIED.


--H3Ck AGAIN WItu VI ACCOuUN OF a
Honeymoon 20 Explain Her Absence.
A little woman in the blue uniform and
demure poke bonnet OF the Salvation Army
has stood for years not far from Broadway
and Thirty-fourth street collecting con
tributlons to the cause of the poor and the
needy.
Although few know her by name she
has acquired in the course OF her work
an acquaintance as large, as varied and II.
many cases as distinguished a could be
imagined. Shoppers stop 70 drop a coin
in her outstretched bowl. exchange a word
and a smile with the gentle woman with
the patient face and pass on, feeling some
how a good deal kindlier and better for the
moments experience.
Women stepping down with a swish %
lace from their carriages stop to ask how
she is, M doesn't she mind the cold wind
and what a brave. plucky little thing she
must Re. Then the coins go into the bowl
in small clinking showers.
So she has stood for years., plying her
mission Of charity and giving TO the lives
OF all the women who clink every coin from
cent 10 gold piece into her howl at lesSt
one sweet moment in their daC.
There was disappointment in many
hearts when one day about two weeks
ago the hurrying shoppers found her gone,
There was another younger woman 10
her place, clad in the same blue uniform
and the demure poke bonnet. And there
wa the same outstretched bowl But il
was not the friend OF years.
Many a woman who had stopped with
ready coin 10 win the smile passed
mechanically on, coin still in hand and
disappointed at the absence OF the patient
little friend. And the girl who hsd sup
planted her did nos bring In any such
welghty harvest for the poor as che had
day in and day out for many a year
But last week there was the od face
again. She was back with the same gentle
smile as IL she had never gone, az IL Ebr two
weeks the light Of her good will had not
even been dimmed. much less taken en-
tirely away.
All day long a little knot-of wounen OF
every variety OF dress. speech and social
station we're gathered around her, telling
her how glad they were to see her back
how bare and cherries the corner had
been without her. Why had she gone
away, and she surely wasn't going away
again?
mo- she replied in her soft, gentle voice,
with a happy smile in her eyes mo, I'm
going TO be right here on this busy corners
/ hope, as long as I live, collecting. what
you may want to give.
why did | go away? Well, you see I got
married, and then, OF course, went away
on my honeymoon.
isn't it wonderful There's no n no
plain or ugly in this world, 1t seems. but
what some good man will come along and
fall in love with her. Leastways, that's
the way it seems to me.
Yes, my man came along and after
we had beer engaged a long time he up
and said that he couldn't wait no longer.
30 l just had to 60 of and get married.
I've got my own home now and can't tell
you how Moe il ito hav you own home,
you know. and feel there's some n man
who il looking out for you and thinks more
Of you than anything else in the world.
That's the way / feel. And to think you
can do just as you like in II, cook what
you like and that.
there's nothing like feeling your feet
under your own table, is there7 But Tn
glad I'm back, yes, thank you. It's nice
to feel you're doing a little good on such
a busy corner as this. Thank you This will
be a good day for me, thanks to you all