The evening world., 1912-01-17
MOTHER TELLS
HOW BABY FROzE
ARMS
Crippled and Helpless, Mrs.
Couljitska Didn't Know
That End Had Come.
FAMILY WAS STARVING.
Lived for Months on Bread and
/ Tea in Unheated Base
ment Room.
FAMILY WAS STARVING.

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4 young woman seriously ia. on Z
broken down cot. claspfng . dead baby
with hcr swollen. pain-twistcd nn~.rs:
. saunt. stoop- ahouidered man and .
little s~ix-year-oId Eri shivcrins beside
her IN . room without heat and nimost
without furniture: all destitute Of food.
. q or money for more h twenty
four hours In THE bitter m,d-winter
ssasonl That was the situation yester-
dAy In The basement 'home." at No. 81
Bseoms street. OF John CouijhskA.
h home" u q single room fur
nishsd with . ricksty cot and dresser
Aad one char.
Il saw no signs of anything to sat
md thsrs wa no nre." Or. Murkel Of
oeuvsrnsur Hospital declared after no
he'd taken Mrs. Conntska TO the nos
pttai.
We have been here IN Now York
thirteen years." she aid to-day. We
come from Austria, my husband and l.
We have had ax Children. but ave are
dead. The last one. my baby Martin.
died yesterday. lie was only two
moaths old. Now I have only left my
lfttis Giri Helen. VINO b six
AZ hrst whea We came here mo hus-
band had good Jobs. And thouxh Il costs
much to live In nix dty ws rot on.
Then the children began to come.
and never we're they we'll. The city 10
cruel for children. NOT like our coun-
try. whore II 10 % easy 10 gSt out
20 the forests and the fresh air. Herr
there was Just the noise. and the dirt.
ana the awful heat in summer. aud the
cold in winter. One after the other
my babies Grew pale and sick There
could do no sewing 10 help John b.
cause ] must always take oaTs Of Shs
Little eaes.
HUSBAND Loer HEART WITH
THE eTRUooLE.
We got into debt Ana ~ moved from
one cheap tenement to Q cheaper one
and John got more and diocour.
aged. lie lost Jobs or the a,aok emss
would come and Il would b. hard Tor
him 10 get work
The children died. al sxospt Helen,
and ! went out 70 work. Somstimss I
would taxi Helen With me, but In
many places they would not LEI me DO
that and ! would have 20 look her up
alone At homo I dtd washing and
s%crubbdng n any work ! could get.
When my husband did not work as q
tailor he used to pick up pieces Of wood
IN the streets and sell them for kindltng.
"La< summer VI moved to No. 81
Brooms street. and since then We have
. In the one room In the basement.
Ny husband has had less work than
ever before. worked when could.
but ] was siok.
We sold or pavnsd almost every.
shing We had.
" eaa hardly ssasmbss Wien ~
AAe eay meat 0Aos OF twice Z
have bought . little Ash. bat most
% the time We have Lived On bread
Q . lay.
And We could hardly ever saS %
much a. We wanted at any meal.
y aida't mind q much for myS
eet3. bat u was terrible 10 hear ny
Htt1s Girl CRY herself TO sleep w.
" . she was hungry.
Then In November the baby came and
he weighed only six pounds. He was
suoh . tny little thing and ne didn't
' strength enough to cry. He didn't
seem 90 grow . bit. Just lay all white
aud still with his little eyes closed.
OF oourss. ! couldn't work for . little
while after he came. We didn't have
much of . THANKSGIVING or Chr.stmhas.
but We managed 20 set through some
how. Only. h baby kept gro wins
weaker n whittier and my husband
couldn't get regular work.
u went back to work a. soon a. I
eo~uld-maybs a was too boon. Anyway.
fhaumAtism came In my hands and ieEs
i'vs had II before but never 90 bad
a. this time. n for almost a week !
haven't been able to get out of bed
And tho cold wAS 80 awful! Every
bpdy goes out In weather like this e.
nick up wood In tho street n my hus-
hand could md so little. not n to
sell and not near enough 90 keep us
warm. So wa have been old all the
Nme.
. az know II wac the cold ana my
uot having much 10 ~ that made
my baby ale. A. nrst I thought
Il wasn't dead because II didnt
seem any colder than II hAa been
bsfsre.
when they came 10 bring ms to the
hospital We had nothing 10 eat. ] don't
fuow whether my little girl had any
upper last nixht or how my baby will.
buried. They're good to me here,
pit ] worry about the others. tie "
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