Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-12

She VINO haa never seen grove on NY h'na ]" III
Thrifty and laborjois rs was its life none knew
better than she the hardship the mcagcr outlay OF
their little home.
A1te1 me evening Igd mn. IN = i , i@no
i..b - III tLe co1raoe 81 Jcsoair asked him
ii She might have pair OF gloves 20 protect her hands
Full upon her flushing check feil the amazed look OF
her brothers and sisters 10 ask toT gloves wnen me
measure OF IL 700 I I'l ,roI 'ore 10Y. - .ii"S RI
cbidfen Of The pcor went with bared hands hardened
to cold and toll But hardest OF all q Aiiura III.
bitter tone OF her good father voice. 1IoEes' 'y
ehia. gl2Ies I'll, r;. ..a .-4.
"No more father. no more must ! 90 10 him"
There vas long silence in the Her father
looked goomily into the yawning chimneypace where
the upstarng sprrts OF flame only decpened the soni-
her shadows Her mother sched l1siiy on, but thc-c
tears on the patient face md all this weight Ct
want and sorrow tell an unoe&Taoe burden on the oao
sensitive pir. but she still claspcd her hands IN apPe
She could net draw back
At last, her latter said s'7w'y: Listen, Nina Nc:
OF your family has ever owned pair Of glove.
your rother-ycur grandnohcr--ro one. Lock az yorF
elder sisters, DO they ask tor g!c'cs; lei your ase
if you wish, that say you cannot have them
After tins no other word was 2ocr and the eAiiaFeA
soon went to their cots
The habit of generations Of obedience to tie fna:y
OF house father bidding was strong III the little NoT
wegan GIL oIt Tor TINS oHce Aiinaa was hiea with
rev stir OF protest as she Lay waEciul upon her low
hedstead looking out through the window into the white
night The soft snow packed itself around TIE loose
window frame and the child lay still Tor fear OF troubl
ing her bed-ielow but within her surged sorrow ana
energy too big for the compass OF her ehilds body
Her iather would not could not buy gio'es-heF
master could not would not labor with her longer
linen how could she' Minna' iI}'e girl gam TINS ao,
solutely needed thing-eIoves; How: For she must!
Not for a moment a!a she say oafno. become /
musician That would have been despair beyond her
endurance No-shc looked INTO the night Tor an op.n
way and her sex! was s;a;'n win prayer that II shoal
be shown 10 her However toiisoio however painful
only TO sec It somewhere. And 5 the storm lessensd
without 50 II was quoted within ara N,nna TEL asleep
for there had come TO her thought which was almost
hope.
BIT when sfe "akcned 70 tie So. col" o. an zee
sheaihcd world ana sle s'lPcd mo he "L'''e pla-e
IN the large and busy hou-chcid she was dsmayed by
the daring OF hcr a"'D'iion. J." "as.'y ae'''ny ana
"rest IRON 1t SO s.ieH ana 90 s'e-' I'.S Is PAIR
OF gloves!
But TINS was hlnna the Si,ld. NINA nc ariS nay
an urgent VIII winch ;5Tew ASIDE whatever barred as
way ana long 0eioTc inc n'cH@y she was rnW 'uoas
with fresh eagerr'ss that sent her small feet hurry
ing through the Iong street impatient 20 7o'n us iuf
tneT outskirts "heFe hNed Two OF hef mares
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