Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — BETTY GETS A CHANCE. [ARTICLE]

BETTY GETS A CHANCE.

Red Cross Seal* Helped Her to Get Well. V She was real pretty and so fall of fun that the dimples were always showing in her round, red cheeks. Her eyes were big and brown, and her nnt colored hair curled naturally in little ringlets over her forehead and ears. She was just eighteen when we first met her and so neat and attractive that one would think she belonged to the well to do class of working people, but when we followed her t 0,., her home one day we confronted startling facts. The red in her cheeks was the flush of unnatural inward fever, the high spirits were a pitiful antidote to pitiless conditions, and the big brown eyes saw only squalor when they were not fixed upon a typewriting machine or closed persistently to any view but an imaginary bright one. The room we entered was a general living space, usqd also as an eating, cooking and sleepffigsapartment There was but one bed, afad Betty had to sleep in it with her mother, who was too weak to sit up. An open cuspidor gat where it would be conveniently near the bed, which placed It by the stove, where their food was cooked. The mother, “who was suffering In an advanced stage of tuberculosis, did not like cold air, and her querulous demands caused Betty to keep the door and windows closed “Well,” said cheerful Betty, with a laugh, “that isn’t so bad as not having any windows or doors to close, is It? Things might be worse.” “Infinitely worse,” said the Wise One. “You might even take a notion to stuff the windows and doors with rags to cut out what oxygen comes in through the cracks." Red Cross Christinas Seals, with their cheery message of hope, gave Betty a chance to get well after her mother died. Is it worth while to save the Bettys? Buy your share today.