Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-06-06


II am glad II was the cook" she
said, simply. 1T is a JOY to me 30
know that have been kind TO at least
one working woman
Several weeks later DR.. Moultrie,
the physician for the Merrivale Mills,
found in the room OF a patient an
| amazing transformation. The patient
was a young factory operator. For
| days she had lain In her poor, bare,
little room, Ill, discouraged, without
hope to stimulate the feebly fiickering
vital flame. But a change had come
to both the room and the girl. There
were new white curtains at the win
dows, rugs on the floor, pictures, fow-
ers. snowy linen. On a table and
overlooking on the bed we're dresses.
hats, shoes and lingerie, dainty, mex
pensive clothes carefully chosen. The
sick girls cheeks were pink and her
eyes were like stars.
81 am WE'LL" she announced Joy
fully. ut is Miss White who has
done IT," The girl, unused to a de-
lineation of her deeper feelings. strug-
bitu lOl NbiNb W tADItSS llle NudUke
in her inner being as well as in the
externals. "She brought me good
things and good cheer, and took away
the horrid, dark ugliness of this
place, and the bitter, sad thoughts
I've had all the time. I've been work.
ing hard. l had to help mother and
my younger sister, who was not
strong enough to work. All my money
went for board and rent, never a new
dress nor n hat, and never a good
time because I was too shabby to 60
anywhere. Then l got sick and was
too discouraged to get well. Miss
White worked in the same room with
me at the factory. She came to see
me and found out all my troubles, and
then the sun of good fortune sure be-
gan to shine in this poor hut. She
knows some rich woman who don't
like to mend their own clothes, and
she asked them to bring their things
to my mother and sister to be mend
ed. There will be all the work they
can do-pleasant work with gosd pay.
She brought me these clothes. She
said they had belonged to a girl who
could not wear them. 1t isn't hard to
get we'll when there's somebody to
make you see that there are kindness
and goodness even down in this poor
suffering corner OF the world"
When the employees came from the
factory DR.. Moultrie joined a plainly
dressed young woman. Il have just
come from Milly Smith," he said
you have made her a happy girl and
given her a chance for recovery"
Poor little Milly. She had fam
lily to support and she also had
sweetheart. She was too good and too
unselfish to withhold from her depen-
dent mother and sister any Of her
wages. She was too proud to go
about with her sweetheart In her
rags; neither would she tell him why
she would not go out with him. He
thought she did not care for him, and
work, small wages, dependent rela-
tives and faithless lover were more
than Milly's strength could bear Her
mother and sister are now self-sup-
porting. The next time she sees her
young man she will be wearing pretty
clothes and showing him that she is
willing to go to picture shows and
beach dances with him"
And Coral Nelson has done this"
said DIR. Moultrie. THE woman who
had no love nor sympathy for poor
women, who knew nothing OF their
sorrows and desires, has done this for
a poor factory girl. Coral-Jane-I
have been watching you ever since
you left my mothers house. have
known the work you have done
among these people. But, Coral, there
is a better work you can do, one
which will rouse to the greatest activ-
ity all the womanly virtues you are
so anxious to develop. This work Is
to love a man who loves you and
marry him. love you, Coral, dear.
I have loved you ever since saw you
extinguishing the cooks fire. Do you
think you could learn to care for me?"
Jane White, the reconstructed
snob, has learned many hard things.
I think she can learn one beautiful
easy one"