Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-07-06
! ROSE PASTOR STOKES
CAREER REMARKABLE
Once Worked in Whitechapel
Cigar Factory; Often Without
Food; Wed Millionaire.

An astonishing love romance, VIII ch
ended in the marriage oil an East-end
| Jewess and an American millionaire, is re-
| called ~ the recent announcement that
| Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes has been sch
| tcrccd in Kansas City To ten years IN a
pcnitentiary under the espionage law com
| mcnts a London newspaper.
Fourteen years ago Rose Harriet Pastor
was employed in cigar factory IN White
| chapel rolling tobacco and earning barely
| sufficient money To keep body and soul to-
| gethcr. She was reared in an atmosphere
| of extreme poverty but she ncvert hciozss
contrivcd to get a smattcring Of education
| III the London public schools, and to
| supplement her small stock of learning by
| private study.
GAVE HE BREAD TO rHE RIRps.
Often she went without without food,
and once when she had not eaten for ~
hours she wrote these verses.
FEEDING rHE sPARRows.
| My last crumh feed you:
| | pray the Lord To feed me, too.
For I'm so hungry, brides sweet,
And no one gives mo bread to eat
The crumbs YOU pick were laid away
From bread | ate ere yesterday,
Since when have not tasted food.
But-"IIo will care and all Is good :
My heart is full my table bare;
Yet Fall Is good and He will ca re. :
| So little sparrows, take your fill
| OF cr,lmhs from of my window sui
Miss Pastor was born in Aug,letovo.
/ h,,r "a m
| Russian Jews of the most lowly station,
| came to London when she was only seven.
| After few years experience IN the last
| end the father died, and the family enl-
/ grated TO America and settled IN Cloyt-
| land where Rose obtalned work m u
! tobacco factory Her mind developed and
! when she Was Fifteen she was already
| famous IN her own circle as a writer of
verse
| MIR A II Fromcnron. one Of the editors
! Of he Jewish DAILY News. received ~
reply to q request 10 subscribers for
| their opinions. letter from Miss Pastor
which he SAID was one ~ the most re-
! markahle he had ever read lie invited
! the rirl to take q position on the paper IN
/ New York and she called on Mr. ] 6
| Phelps Stokes. son of Arson Phelps
| Stokes. a banker and descendant Of four
/ colonial governors Of Massachusetts with
| reference to the appointment.
HUNGRY DAYS RECALLED.
| Mr. Stokes was AZ once attracted nv her
/ intellect 4 few DAYS later she was intro
| duccd to University Settlement work, and
/ was thrown much INTO association with the
| millionaire Their love romance developed,
/ and their counting was undertaken while
! they were employed IN missions Of mercy
| among the poor Of New York east SIDE
| When she became engaged 20 Mr. Stokes
| she asked permission 81 her tancc Ia take
| up again her work in the Cigar factory
and she was employed there M to the
! eve 81 her wedding on July IS 1905 A
! few weeks after her marriage she revisited
| the scenes Of her povcrt y-stricken youth IN
| Whitcchapcl accompanied 10y her hus-
| band
INTERESTED N rooR.
! Mr- Stokes interested herself for years
m the amcloratlon of the lot OF the poor
| She often recalled her hard hungry
| davs' in the nclghborhood Of Pctticoat-
lane. and said that there were two things
which she had not forgotten the grimy
streets Of the East-cnd and the London
policemen who were SO kind and good
to little children when they cried III the
streets
In 1906 Mr. Stokes offered his services
to the Socialist party. declaring that the
so-caIlcd capitalist system l. ndefcnsIhlc
cthlcally and disastrous ind,lstrally, land
that It must he supplantcd 10y right
cnus system Of cooperation In 1909
hls mother left nearly million sterling
approximately $1,000 900 for building
schools for colored children ia the Southern
States and for other phllanthropIc Oh