The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-12-26

| seNsseu,rr<fYtFl he has long since for
| Il, 49, s..g1ksTs& gotten us! No one
| s- cares for us And
life is very hard!"
Then she rolled back the shaw
| from her left arm, and showed an ugly
wound in the arm where her husband
had stabbed her with "a stiletto.
The young teacher lost no time In
taking the poor woman to a su geon
who dressed the already infected
wound, and dealt with a case so diff
cult that he barely saved the arm
from amputation.
The poor woman accepted the help
stclidly, for suffering had wrought its
work in her embittered spirit A
drunken, brutal husband, hard, inces-
SAINT tell, and the care of three puny
children weighed down her forlOrn
life She lived in one basement room,
and her washing supplied the chill
dren's food, when her husband did not
succeed in getting the money first and
spending it for drink.
There is not dog upon the street
whose lot is not happier than mine,
she said. No. there Is no God"
TO the three children, Leonardo,
Michael and Angelo, fourth was soon
added, and to her was given the name
Rosie; for the mother did not recall
the names of any Italian artists that
would have fitted a little girl And
when the little girl was born, the
worthless father deserted the home,
which was perhaps the only thing he
aad done to help it for long time
1t was no argument that changed
the creed of the poor immigrant wom-
an. The simplest necessities of life
We're imperatively needed in that
home and they were supplied. Day
by day visiting nurse came in and
cared for her Day by day the chill
dren were tended in the day nursery
Frequent visits of the teachers
brought simple comforts to the poog
tenement, and life became a little
brighter But the sad look was there
Of a woman whose hopes We're gone,
and who had dunk TO the dregs the
cup q bitter experience.
7 oy haG q Christmas tree at the
nl.se.y with simple Sits for the chill
d.tA. Wien tie exercises were over,
am the teachers were taking down
the tree, one Of them proposed that
they should carry it over to home
where one of the children wa
sick The tree was too large, and had
to be cut off, but it was still re-
spectacle tree. And its reception in
The first home was SO enthusiastic that
they carried II to another, and yet
another. Nor were gifts lacking; fer
a quantity Of secondhand toys had
been received, and there was second |
hand clothing for distribution as well. |
4 few Of Tie children accompanied |
the tree to the first house, and the |
grew. First went the tree, |
upheld by two or twenty children; |
then came the basket of decorations. !
hen a basket Of presents and then |
he teachers and the throng. 1t was |
ung after dinner time when they |
came 10 Mrs. Carrucio's one room,
Il was a dark room. with one court
and that window was filled |
With children who could not get in /
rhe table was still loaded with the
'emains Of the Christmas feast, and
Mrs Caruccio was holding Rosie
while the three boys gathered about
Ter. Into the midst OF the family
Toup came the wonderful tree. for
he eleventh time decorated with tin.
lei and glass balls, and lighted with
andes
II bore wonderful fruit-a shawl for
he mother, shoes for the boys, white
Iothlng for baby Rosie. and an odd
objection of second hand toys.
The light Of the candles found a re
lection in the face Of the poor WON
n. She had seen the Lord in the
Owe of his children She looked at
be tree. now bare OF presents. but
til radiant with candles and orna-
1ents. and looked again at the faces
( the teachers. and then az the face
{ her babe. Upon her knees she
FL in front Of the wonderful tree. and
yer her face. that had been too SAD
Or weeping. the tears flowed freely |
s she knelt and uttered a prayer
nd her face became almost like the /
Ace q a Madonna as She held her /
abe and sobbed her sad Magnifcat in
or native tongue.-Youth's Com
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