The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-12-08

Van Sickle Chnd. Perhaps no woman Resident of
this city had had Il more eventful life, or greater
claim to immortality That she spent her time in
cheering and lifting the unfortunate, her Christian
faith imbuing her with the desire to lift all things
unto Him. was apparent daily in her lite time, and
Death, in claiming her. pOWereSs to take more
than the SHELL intensified her life as it hovers like
benedictiOn those who fortunate enough
to know her as:
Her heart was like her garden,
Old fashioned, quaint ana sweet
wealth of buds and blossoms
Hid in Il still retreat.
Sweet yioets of sympathy
Were always opening there,
And lilies, white and pure enclosed
Each one, a whispered prayer.
Forgetmenots there fingered.
To late perfection brought
And there bloomed purple panses
In many tender thought
There hopes first snowdlops took deep
root,
And lowered because they must;
There loves reached toward
heaven
On trellses of trust
And in that quiet garden
The garden of her heart,
Song birds built nests and carOled
Their songs of cheer apart
And from it will float back to
Ger coming sin and strife
Sweet as breath of roses blown,
The fragrance-the beauty of her life
She naQ been nelieu III CHRISTIAN science,
years ago, and until her death an ardent men,
Der of the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Her
friends say that she laughed her way through life.
and though 81 years young at the time of her
passing, that no one had seen her hands idle.
She went daily for automobile rides, and read
without glasses. Every winter for the last five
years she has motored to California with Mr..
and Mrs. Drumheller deliglting in and never firing
of the travel
Though she owned her own home at W1507
NH III tla Intta nf iar
were spent with her daughter, Mrs. jerome Drum
heller, at W2506 Pacific Avenue. There, the
windows of her room afforded her one of
the most beautiful of the cty's views. ON the
wall the opposite side of the room was Il beauti-
full head of the Boy Christ, typfyng the eternal
youth which lived in her heart. 1t is room, too
that is delight to the feminine eye. Done
in The various tones of orchid with nothing mis-
sing that could in any way add to feminine comfort
or convenience, you know what haven it must
have been to Il woman who loves beauty. The
work-basket on the table beside the window con
tans tiny square of block for crocheted bed
spread finished spread, that Is her handwOrk
upon the bed and a large basket contained the fin
ished blocks for more than half spread, IAN I'M
finished work." stands beside it, while across the
foot of the bed dainty orchid and white blocked
quilt is first cousin to lavender hooked rug, also
her handwork marking the bedside atop soft
velvety orchid room-sized rug. So fond was she
of this shade that even the chair on the porch
wore it.
Reside her work basket on tine table of her
room was her prayerbook. Science and Health, and
two Bibles One, old and worn, still in use be-
cause of its hundreds of marked passages and its
nearness to the Joys and SORROWS OF her lie;
the other too, had leather cover worn from the use
of an eager student and seeker, for the peace and
comfort its pages Afford had given it,
Besides the daughter, Mrs Child had two de-
voted sons, William Edward, who lived with her
and Sidney Albert also of Spokane. third.
Frank Paine Child, died many years ago.
She leaves also two grandchildren, Sidney Ed
ward child and William Nelson Child and a GREET
Betty Patricia Child.