Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-29
WOULD SHARE HIS FATE
Yet 1aby's Future Requires Her to
r: Live Apart for It's Sake.
SHE SAW LEPER LAST NIGHT
Slender, Delicate Woman Ready tt
Sacrifices Herself-Thankful
for Kindness.

Dazed as If from physical shock, Mrs.
John r. Early, wife of the leper. re-
mained all of today in the sitting room
of Adjt Wiseman of the Salvation Army.
seemingly utterly unconscious Of her sur
roundings. Since visiting her husband
last night she has slept little and has
spoken hardly a word.
She arrived in Washington yesterday
and was taken to the Salvation Army
rooms. Both she and Mr.. Early have
been in Salvation Army work. Although
Mrs. Early's health prevented further
activities two years ago. they are still on
the, rolls of the army.
Adjt. Wiseman and his family have ex-
tended to Mrs. Early every possible COM
fort and sympathy. Adjt. Wiseman said
today that his Christianity would be Of a
frail sort if he could not help Mrs. Early
in this trial.
The Salvation Army people received
Mrs. Early and her baby and Mrs. Lar
rim, her mother. and will see that they
are properly looked after in the city as
long as they are here, or until other ar
rangements have been made.
Sweet and Refined
Mrs. Early is a delicate slender woman.
with a pleasant face and light chestnut
hair, brushed back from her forehead.
Even the sadness that naturally overcasts
her face since she has learned of her hus-
bands misfortune cannot hide the simple
beauty and natural refinement of her fea-
lures.
Her eyes have clear. steady gaze
There is written upon her lndeltbly The
fact that she is the kind Of woman VINO
has made a good wife and a good mother
and who. even in the face of the most
terrible inpediments. will be wifeof the
most wonderful and valuable kind until
the end OF her days.
Last night, when the doctors came 10
take her out to see her husband. they
told her in the gentlest manner that 1t
would be inadvisable for her to go near
him. That meant that after all the weeks
of absence the one she loved would
have to remain many feet away. while her
heart and soul. hungry for caresses, would
have to go without that great satisfaction
that comes from a happy meeting
She had said to the doctors she cared
sible. would live with her husband to the
end .of her days. going with him to any
kind Of colony or hospital. She would
expose herself to the disease. and all
through her intense love and devotion.
Yet there is her baby. She has not
the right to expose that little one. And
she knows it, And so she is placed be-
tween love and duty. with both tugging
at her with ever-tightening grip.
She wants to be with him. And she
knows that by doing SO her child will
never have even chance In the world.
So she sits in the little sitting room.
over the Salvation Army headquarters.
never saying yord. She hardly hears
the few questions that have been put to
her: and. in fact. does not want to talk.
:. Talks Upwillingly.
1t was the hardest kind Of an interview
for the newspaper men. In fact, there
MAS not one of them who would not
have gladly welcomed anything else in
the world.
Adjt. Wiseman introduced little group
Of them to Mrs. Early. In the embarrass-
ment of the moment not single word
was spoken.
Mrs. Early spoke in so low a voice it
was hard TO hear her. She did not want
to talk and shrank from it visibly.