The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-22
FOR YEARS HOMELESS,
ATLAST FINDS ONE
Mother Love Spurs Woman to
Great Endeayor That Chill
dren May Have a Home.
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that didn't make any difference. Wasn't
she going to have children who were
going to be richer than all OF the or
phans in all the orphan asylums in
all OF the world? When her first baby
was laid in her arms she just cuddled
II and loved II, and after it grew up.
not very far. It's true, another enc came.
Things were pretty black Just then.
since she was beaten and rnisused and
starved by her drunken husband. The
were poorer still, and the rooms were
frlghtful to live in. But what of IL?
Weren't her children richer than hun
dreds OF others2 When the third and
fourth came there was nothing but re-
Joicing In the little orphan-girl heart
under the wasted bosom. because there
were four more chances to squander her
love.
Then She Fell Ill.
Then blessing befeIl, and the drunk
en- man, who was the father. disappear
ed. and the woman began TO work for
the four special children. But the :ears
had been hard, and IT was too much for
her. She became I'll. and then came her
own private little crucifixion. All her
rich babies were robbed Of their kerit-
age, she was put in a hospital, and they
they were put in orphan asylums. So
as she lay In the hospital she prayed
for strength and just as soon as she
was able to be up, she went to work, and
the first thing she did was TO go out and
collect these babies
She wasn't we'll at all, and they lived
on bread and moiasses and mother love
in one room. There some good people
found her, and not on the strength of
her past story, but just because Of what
they saw there, they cleaned her out
bag and baggage, and gave her a home
Two rooms and Il kitchenette, with some
stuff to live on.
Ard the first week that they were
there. five-year-old special ran down the
street and met one of the good people
vino had helped, crying, We've got a
company up to our flat. An there a
sittin' on chair an all -
lust Like Other People.
The mother was entertaining d caller
for the first time in all OF her life. mot
different at all, but just like other peo-
ple"
That night it turned cold. and the
good person went down to see how
things were at the fiat" She found
the inmates, happy as kings, in one
bed Covering them were layers of
newspapers. but when she looked down
at thu r. es underneath. the visitor was
som>hoE embarrassed. She suggested
that a cemfort would be rather handy
There was movement like the hut-
ter OF n wing. as the babies were cud-
died. the newspapers cracked indig-
nantly, and the little orphan girl heart
in the worn body thumped so pa nfuIly
that n flush rose in the mothers checks.
We'll. I guess not, We're all right.
{ rather think you've done enough
Paper is very warming" And the babies
cuddled closer. just as if To show that
they could cuddle. and piped: Papers
fine covers"
OF course. n comfort came into that
room lickcty-split the next Law. lust the
way things sometimes do :tlI from the
skies Then. knowing that there was
one chance only Of keeping that home.
and fearing to dare face tho mother
with the knowledge that It couldn't last.
1t was made n Christmas Opportunity.
This is only one of the fourteen op-
portunities to do good listed In Tho
Times. It is n true story. Any con-
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