Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-06
sopyrisht. 1909. by Doubleday. pase Co

s'What is itq' was all she could say. "Oh,
Mrs. Gono-owsky, what is its Didn It your peo-
pie comet
''The little girl comes Mrs. Gonorowsky
was beginning, when Eva her hands still before
her eyes, broke out:
at amt little girls 1t ain t cousins. It
ain t got no lambs 1 don t know what it is, but
have fraid over it,
but your sister and her husbandf" asked
Miss Bailey
"They don't comes,' said Mrs Gonorowsky.
She was quite passive and yet Constance had
often seen her in Mysteries of neighborly vituper
ation They don t comes, = she repeated
duly
''And the child all alonef'
"a friend from mine sister und from me, he
brings her on the house. You like you shall see
her, maybe. You don t needs you shall ask over
mine sister sooner you looks on that child
''It amt no child'' walled Eva. cit ain I'll
1t ain I'll 1t ain'tl 1 wants mine stylish little
cousin what had pictures off of. y
Teacher followed Mrs Gonorowsky into the
tiny inner room, lighted only by candle and not
aired at all, and there on a heap of clothing lay
a creature-Eva right: it was not child
who gazed blankly at them Its head had been
shaved, perhaps on the steamer, perhaps to escape
identification, and its lips never stopped moaning
painting whispering one sentence.
"That is the child" said Mrs. Gonorowsky
IN simply.
N ''But what is she sayingi" quered Constance
III els she asking for any onef"
She says" Mrs Gonorowsky interpreted,
"'I am Christian I kiss the cross!' They
learn her to say that l show you how they learn
her" and she took the little body on her lap and
began to unswathe the bandages in which it was
wrapped. The back uncovered first.
81 kiss the crossl' shrieked the baby as the last
lressing was removed. "I kiss the crossl -
1.-THE knout, said Mrs. Gonorowsky, very quietly
We learn to know its mark, we women of the Jews
Now see another way they learn her, and she defty
urned the child upon its back
''Oh, God in heaveni Did men do thatf' cried
Constance Bailey.
''Christianl'' moaned the baby. 81 kiss the
.ross'
''Und you ask where is her mama9'' commented
Mrs. Gonorowsky.
A week passed before Eva came again to room Is;
out Miss Bailey had her frequently during the
interval and had done what she could to pave the way
'or her return. Eva s cousin, she explained to the
First Readers, had been i'll and could not be expected
shine resplendent in foreign fashions for, perhaps,
month; and Eva, upon her return, was not to be
or bothered. Miss Bailey very serious
md very earnest in these commands, and the First
Readers swore to do her bidding and almost did it
when Eva slipped into her accustomed place in her
clothes.
'It ain t COUSINS she whispered to Miss Bailey.
1t ain girls, und it ain got lambs, but finds
kitty the street und gives it to it, und ain n't
rot fraid over it. Last night l gives it
lair ribbon und it smiled 1t began to have glad,
10 l ain It got fraids :"
Gradually the reports grew more cheering; until
me day the cousin to school, Eva led her in in
riumph, and Miss Bailey, who accustomed to
many pitful appeals to her understanding of small
learts, found herself quite speechless as she
urned to greet this newest charge. The baby was
till heartbreakngly thin; but her eyes were gentle
md human; her shaven head covered with iuted,
acetrimmed babys bonnet; miserable kitten was
lasped in her arms, and she wore, oh, miracle of
owing kindness! Eva s reception gown OF course,
he spoke word of English, but at Evas whis'
,ered injunction she ntrusted little hand to teach