The evening world., 1911-04-13
LITTLE GIRLS"
. ROMANCE ENDS At
ST. ROSES HOME
Pitiful Life Stories Revealed 10
I Attendants by Dying
Patients
THE RESCUE OF FEGAN.
Kind Of Work That win Be
Extended by New Building
for Cancer Victims.
THE RESCUE OF FEGAN.


Cancer secures tho Diilf'nH fund for
which The Evening Word ASKS Fuo-
--r.paons, Il Will shortly shelter many
No. tho number Of patients !, now
ARCS Tor IN IN. lt.ls houSs on Cherry
street.
bur one may rouot 81 tnsre WIN -
found among All the hundrsd patients
whom Mother AiphonSs hopes 20 take
into her bg new hoepitsi any human
lu,erast'' Stories more nbsorbing than
some o. those thAt have been whispered
to swSst-tnoed sistors IN ire present
st. Roses.
SirL She was ninsteen. but thay chilled
Aer ths Litt'e Girl because she was
snan and didn't ssem even as Old as
nineteen.
Tho Littis ORD had beon very pretty.
Only now her nee rcd lip, were white
and over ono Ede OF her poor face n
Hhito cloth was aiwa Va folded leave
hope behind all We that enter here" IL
written IN burning. 4. invisible ietters,
oyer the door OF ST. Roseis. Tho Little
Girl could not possibly ret we'll. and
ono knew II.
ewe sthearts Hopeless.
Tho Little Girl had . lover who cams
TO sec her every evening after his work
behind.
They sat together tn The twilight and
t.is brown hand cid her little thin one
GlEht. They didn't say mum. OBJ
t~giously there was not much that could
loo said. He always brought hsr soms
small gift. or orange. q sink handksr-
chief. soInetimss . bag Of psanuts
@asa -Aey waited Together through Ere
(early evening hours until . sister said
itnat Il was time FOR goodnight He
tlrsed her gently. II q bit Awkwardiy,
and then went away. and they waited
tssparatety until the nent svAnfng, wher
ne could como again.
They had worried tcrsehW m IN
same shop and their romance had bser
.ysnuine and matter Of fAot Then tn,
Tragedy swept across It and lett them
toWildered fatAlists, hurt chHdr~n
tghey could not understand.
There arc rot many VINO asS
young" the sisters Say. with vnoon-
,,ciously reli.ved hshA
/ A patient whom Mother Arphonsn
always remembers Is one who ntsrail,
tumbled against her door one snow
fnight In November. She was tho Lady
STABILITY dressed. but OF evident diEnit,
and refinement. and she had been III o
cGace for a year. Che was already II
tbs last stagea
Never Knew Her Nsmo.
n had been bookkcepsr. she tolt
Mother A~lphonsa, md she had tried q
continue her work and conceal he
leomplaint as long as possible. Owtnl
40 the malignant nature OF Il. hal: wa.
mot for long. She could get worl
nowhere else. and finally her ferov
dodgers objected TO her presence in tn,
house with them
%ho Cherry street home was provide
at that time, and Mother Alphonsl
hesitatsd at Introducing another pa
tient.. Whersupon the Lady observe
quietly that no hospital would taEs neI
ss!nce she could not bo operated on. an
that suicide seemed her only reoourc
.Room wGs finally mado for her. and
week later che died. assuring tho sis
tiers that they would ma $40 in he
purse, but that no one need be notifie
of her death They never even kne'
1er real name
Another woman who was rcosived 1
the home had been struc dow IN III
prime OF an active business lfe 81
was kept In a hospital for numero
Operations. all equally futile. until III
money gave out. Then she was ser
DO the crowded. poverty stricken hon
OF her parents. for abe had risen
.hfs solely by her own exertions. IN
contrast In surroundings In her wea
and suffering state was unbearabl
Nobody knew how 10 10 anything q
M.r. When taken 20 tho home h,
Natural u1nNaucy and charm resssert,
tnema.lrrs in. the happier environmer
Ans Wglu she died she was mourn,
sincerely bj.A4r gentle nurses
Rescue Of Feean.
Is Then there was the case % DO
Feaan. one OF the few men who
Mother Alpaousa has been able 10 he
at 4er Cherry street headquarters.
Has inc laleuo OF Fegan that was pl
t..Iaslv remarkable. Tie old man %
4..l a sol. lary ufe IN an attic room
t. reruhorApod for several years.
..Ur tal.c. 90 anybody. only eve
tuHr.t be walked hrmly into the corr
eala3n % bought n hye-ccHt wHislS'
Dae llgAt he d.du't come, nor {
r1E, arlt. nor thc one after that. IS
F...lH .... cut % look h.u 10 but Z
Ia..u1r. .r.ar. who Ua credited w
Framing one ~ tue "tougaost dives"
t.e o .H- Fc. ON was certainly ]
~ T....... .." ralIl. customer, aId