New-York tribune., 1922-08-26
Fairies Dress Burns of Girl, s
Tortured BY Drunken Father
Dorothy Is Going Back TO
Wonderful Home i'm the
Country, W hile Cruel
Parent Goes to Prison


Little Dorothy Moore knows now that
it's true that there are fairies and that
il you could only get at the big black
clouds and turn them wrong side out
you would surely find that inside, be-
hind all the hlackness, there is really
bright shining lining Of silver, Even
the ends Of Dorothy's poor little fin
gers, burned almost 10 the bone and
bandaged tight SO that both her hands
feel queer and numb, don't hurt nearly
so much since she found that out, for
her very own self.
The funny part about it is that 1t
might nevar have happened really, III
Dorothy's father hadn't burned her
fingers over the hot stove for punish
ment because she would insist on cut
ting up the papers to get the pictures
out of them. Because it was when Dor
othy's fingers were burned and the po-
liceman came and took her father away,
and Dorothy had to go with her aunt to
q great big room, the biggest room she
had ever seen, where there were ever so
many people and a man sat up on a
kind of throne who talked awful cross
to Dorothy's father, but was just as de-
lightfully nice as ever could be to Dor
othy--it wasn't until all this had hap
pened that all of a sudden Daddy"
Hess came along, just as If the fairies
had sent him, and told Dorothy that he
was going TO take her back to the big
beautiful house in the country, where
she could ride in an automobile and
play with great big dog of her very
ownest own.
They're Not Strangers, Either
Dorothy has lived with Daddy" Hess
before. it was Daddy" Hess who took
Dorothy from the other big house
where the people wore the same kind Of
clothes, and everybody was kind, but
you had to be very careful about rules
and things that people told you to do
and not to do.
Five years ago, when Dorothy was
her away from that big place and
took her up to his big house at
place called Palatine Bridge, in Mont
gomery County, and Dorothy was
made ever such fuss of and didn't
have to be told not to do hardly any
thing
Then Daddy" Hess went to war
and Dorothys real father-the one
who has just been sent to Jail for
burning Dorothy's hngers--came and
took her away from Daddy Hess's
big house and said she must live at
his house in Bayonne.
And ever since he came back from the
war "Deddy" Hess has been searching
Tor Dorothy, hunting high and low
for her, and advertising for her, and
asking the policemen to help him find
her. But it didn't seem to do any
good. at all; and ali the while Doro-
thy was living with her real father in
Bayonne; and Daddy" Hess might
never have known about it.
But when Dorothy's real father
came home drunk and burned her
fingers over the hot stove, and the
man from the society which doesn't let
people be cruel to little girls found
out about it, then they took Dorothy's
real father away and Dorothy was
taken to hospital and men came
there and took her picture and put it
in the newspapers.
And then, what do YOU know
Daddy" Hess saw It'll He saw the
picture in the papers and he said:
"Why, that's Dorothy, the pretty little
girl | adopted from the Hope Farm
and then lost I'm going right over
to Bayonne, right now" And he got
into his great big automobile and away
he went.
So yesterday, after they had taken