The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-17
MOTHER RAN
 AWAY WITH
 HER BOARDER
Now Children Are III, State Re fuses to Care For Her and
 Then She Regrets , Her Sin
Woman Striving Hard to Prevent
 Her Little Family. From Being
 Public Charges Begs Not to be , Returned to Toledo

Perhaps it's nothing more than deserve" said Mrs. Mary SZucs, a comedy matron, whose features, with out their lines of care and sorrow, would still bloom with the freshness avenue, this morning, entreated her to appeal to the Board of Public Chari- ties to come to her assistance. For the mothers four children, one of them not yet able to toddle, are strick- en with the measles, there is coal enough only for a day or two, and the mother. concealing the presence of the contagion in her home from her employer, is doing domestic work, forced by the stress of circumstances to leave the children to care for themselves as best they can.
 Neighbors say that yesterday the second eldest child. seven, was out little body covered with the rash of the measles. The oldest child, not yet 10. a little mother to the others, ig- norant of the sin of her mother and displaying fortitude that might well become martyr, is trying to keep the house in order, to have the nursing bottle of the tiny child filled at the
  but in sufficient quantity to keep the baby warm, such fuel as the mother from her meagre earnings, has been able to provide But the woman, fear full of imprisonment has left the fate of her children. almost wholly to providence.
 abandoned her husband, at Toledo, O., and taking her three children, fled to this city with 8 -boarder with whom she had become infatuated. For a few months the illusion of content ment lasted. Then the woman fell ill.,. Her lover, already tired of pro- as herself, left her, to die for all he knew, in the midst of strangers.
 Her plight was such that she became a public charge. She became a moth CT again, and she and her infant child lay in hospital at the city's expense until the mother regained sufficient strength to go to work. Her family became public charges. Investigation by the Board of Charity's agents brought to light the real condition of the home.
 Arrangements were made to return the woman to Toledo, O.. for the city would not bear the expense, and the State, realizing that she was proper ly a charge to Ohio. declined to be- come responsible. State Policemen came here and with Investigator Nor rissey of the Board of Charities made preparations for the woman's home ward trip.
 Tickets were bought, and arrange ments made to ship what little furni- ture she had, back to Toledo. But the woman pleaded so touchingly that the authorities relented, on condition that she would not again seek public aid That has been the condition until now, The eldest of the four children has been the housewife, while the mother has sought employment from house to house, in order to gather enough funds to keep, the family from starving.
 Yesterday the neighbors discovered the plight of the youngsters from find ing the second eldest in the yard, half clad, his body covered with the rash of measles. Today they report ed to the Board of Charities. Inves- tigator Morrissey was instructed to take the matter up with the Health department and Health Inspector Lynch sent to the home this afternoon to arrange for the care of the. chill dren.
 The mother says she would rather die than return to Toledo to face the disgrace of meeting her former asso- ciates who know of her elopement and it's luckless termination. But neither the city nor State will bear the expense of sustaining the family for any length of time.