The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-01

''There-there-liste to that Nell
cried fierCely. A great anger welled up
in her.
Morris uttered a groan, and opened
the door. A little wide-eyed boy, in
loose, ragged clothing, came in.
Say he said in a Shrill, frightened
tone, Mrs. Iliowisl1i's gittin' a kidr'
TN be right over" Morris said, some
what too strongly. Now, listen. boy.
Tell her husband that she's to do ex-
actly as 1 told her-understand?- ex-
actIyr'
Il run all the way" said the boy
breathlessly, and was gone
"Oh-and you're all tired out" cried
Nell angTily. IT can't stand it, There
there's the same old story And 1 bet
you won't get a cent for it."
He was packing his instruments in
his grip.
It's tough, kid, isn't it?" he muttered.
"Drat it,
He kissed her.
But, oh, Morris" she said, looking
up at him, this will all change! Wen
be so happy"
''Yes-yes,. indeed! Now 60 to bed.
kid, It's an all-night job, You'll go?''
To please you, Doctcr-manr
That's right" He kissed her and she
CLOSED the door after MIN,
He walked very briskly through the
keen air. The streets were empty and
absolutely silent He seemed to move
through deserted city where the foot
prints Of the extinct people still showed
in the thin mud from pavement and
gutter. A moon glowed coldly over
head, and the stars were faint and far.
Most Of the windows were tight shut,
and very black and very still
He buttCned up his coat, turned up his
collar and tried to forget how tired he
was. This he soon did by reviewing the
case of the IliCwiskis. They were a very
unfortunate family-the husband a
semi-idiot. d sweatshop wreck. unfit for
even trivial labor. He was blear-eved
and frall and a-tremble. and the earth
and her people glimmered but dirnly
and in watery flashes through his brain
But he had a good heart; he never com
planned. The Oldest child-there were
twO-was also semi-idiotic. She was 10
and was still learning the Abe rudi-
ments in the atypical class in the pub
tic schOol-a sweet, gCOd-tempered girl
Who loved needlewCTk and her teachers
a sore trial to her mother, who some
times beat her numerically. For tf.her
mother sent her on a simple errand that
required the returning of change for a
purchase, the poor, Drained. fat
cherub-faced little girl would come
back penniless, And this to utter Dow
erty was a terror, and beyond endur-
ance. The second child, also a girl, was
very young and too small to help. Hence
all the burden Of the family fell on the
fat, stout hearted mother.
She did washing-and undoubtedly
continued it. despite incessant agony,
up TO the last hour. She was a great
noble soul, fitted out with weak flesh
and bad brain, and the world had IN
consciously made a bad job worse by
overwhelming her with care and labor
and pain. She struggled down at the
sea bottom through tons of black ocean
and yet through all the years never
once stuck her head above the waters-
never once got the release, the sun and
wind. the glory of vista and scenery
the health Of the sea. But she was no
Die and very great-she rarely cried
out she bore her husband patiently. she
washed vigorously. she beat the cir!
only when the last limit had been
passed, she was sober. she endured
pain. Her only real joy was DR.. Rast.
He was the one human being who was
human with her-whO ENCOURAGED her.
who held her up, who sometimes put
his hand in his pocket to pay the
grocer OIL. VINO was always to be had
when the need came. As he walkad
along, his eyes clouded. He knew every
fact in the case, and, not least. Just
what ne meant to the woman
And finally he said, though imme-
diately afteTward he hated himself for
a ssntimentalist:
These ara my helpless little ones"
The tenement was IN a dark. blind.
miserable street. As he climbed five
fights of stairs toward the cries on tn.
top floor the women on each floor
opened doors and bobbed their heads
cut TO watch him.
"Ach the sweet doctor" he heard
several times. but paid no attention
The atypical child waited for him at
the top. She came forward shyly. smil-
ing sweetly, and put her hand I'm his.
and her arm timidly about him.
Good Doctor" she sighed happily.
She didn't seem to notice the piercing
screams from the back room.
He Patted her head.
And my girls all right?" he asked
softly.
Good" she said.
There He leaned and kissed her.
his throat thick. and pushed in to the
battle.
at with the streets gray. the cold.