The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1905, Page 3

“MY CHILDHOOD DAYS IN LONDON TOW BY ROSE HARRIET PASTOR. THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1905. | Second Article of the Series Which the “Genius of the Ghetto,” the Fiancee , of Mr. ra. G. Phelps Stokes, Has Agreed to Write Exclusively for The Evening World, ONDON! London, with its tremendously rich on the one hand and Its TWO STUDENTS OF GHETTO L LIFE AND THEIR COMPOSITE PICTURE. miserably poor on the other—London was my home, A little child (Photographed Specially for The Evening World.) of nine, living in the neighborhood of Petticoat lane, what could it gow of Iife—of the rich—or the poor? But it did know this; That the rich ride in carriages, and look unhappy, and the poor ride {n none, and) look miserable. 1 can remember no period in my Mfe when the look on « human face fd not interest me more than that human being’s surroundings. very often, a little tot, strolling dreamily through crowded Whitechapel, looking) much in brilliant shop windows and more at the faces of the passing) erowd, my heart went out to the richly clad and to the poor alike when nothingness—no beauty of spirit, no hope, no intelligence, looked out ot their eyes into mine, ‘When a sorry face looked momentarily out at me from a hansom cab, the cab vanished—only the face, the look remained; the poverty of that) Ufe laid hold of my heart. “Poor man!" or ‘poor lady!" I would murmur, “poor man!" “poor lady!” Perhaps they had millions, perhaps they had) none, I never gave this a thought. 1 only felt in a more than childish! fashion that they had not Life, I remember well one good, happy family—unusually good, unusually beppy. This family lived in @ basement, The people passing the corner of fWood street and Red Jion Court, near Spitalfields Market, might very) Haunted frequently have seen a little girl lying face downward on the pavement) and looking with rapt gaze through iron gratings into a basement kitchen, B the Face the plain deal floor of which was always scrupulously clean. ry) This was the enchanted palace where the happy tamily lived, and , b when we lived in the neighborhood, no matter where my mission was mn a Ca whether I was sent on an errand or going to sohool, my foot always gravi tated toward the fron grating, Sometimes I would catch n look from kind, HEN f Tpoved sweet-natured eyes; often I would find only the wonderfully clean floor Na sorry face looke: emiling up to me; but always I went away happy, And in my obildish momentarily out at me dreams when air castles were real enough and good to live in, that kitchen! $ from a hansom cab the cab built so far beneath the ground was my favorite room; and the people who|} vanished—only the face, the Mved in that basement were my dearest companions, look, remained, The pov. . 8 @ ‘ Fy erty of that life laid hold of MM’ joy knew no bounds when one day I was invited down into that} ny heart, “Poor man!” or wonderful kitchen and joined the happy-faced children {n a merry “PR 1 fi game of blind man’s bluff, To touch them with my hands, to really oor lady!” I would mur- pass my fingers over their joy-lit,} Mur. Perhaps they had mill- o~~=«=<«"-{1'[V_—_——ee—r—er—rP=Pere<—”nee™" i HOW SHE TOUCHED faces, full of love and sympathy! |} ions; perhaps they had none, GOD'S SUNSHINE IN That was a divine privilege. For to I never gave this a thought; THE HUMAN SOUL, me it did not mean touching them; it Lonly felt in U meant touching God's sunshine {n the on In a more than human soul, touching hope, sympathy, love. childish fashion that they had But these moments were rare indeed. There was eo much to make the|$ "Ot Life, tears start, to wring the child-heart and tear childhood up, root and all.)/’ ROSE HARRIET PASTOR. These roots, in my own case, had never grown deep in the soll of life, as other children’s do, I never had a childhood. I was always a woman, ? I NEVER had a childhood, 1 was always a woman, I § could not play when a child cried; 1 would drop skipping rope, ball or shuttlecock § go to the child and comfort its 1) Though pie my games #3) always earnestness 13 of a man nade an essay, @ 489 crying child would draw out me all the childish plays fulness that was in just to make the baby stop, ryin, ROSE: HW. PASTOR: ng. Rose HARRIET PASTOR,” One erneeentq that the visitors had brought n LISTENS TO STORIES with them and others belonging fay WHILE HIDDEN AWAY the house, i IN A DARK CORNER, The children had all gone trom the] Damnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnmmmnmne @ elders to a long deal table in one core ner of the room, while I, who would have nothing to do with children whem) men and women were near, sat erouched in another remote corner, ob ing without being myself observed by any one, The company was merry, and one humorous story after another told amid hearty laughter. They were mostly stories of Russian p fe. ) I listened to the descriptions of the peasants and of the Ruasian ferme with intense interest and enjoyed the pure humor of the stories, lat heartily in my dark corner without being heard because of the louder from the company, “Now you tell us one,” said some one to & demure little miss, who sat) with her hands clasped all evening and even when she shook with laughter, | “Yes, tell us one, tell us one,” came from the whole company, paused for her story, wa ° e e wt IP the brief hush I heard a child’s voice eay: “That's a leg; now pull ‘off a wing.” Blackness rushed into my eyes and a kettle of boiling water | was singing in my head, I stumbled blindly out of my corner one a crled “My God!" a ‘Those in the room leaped to their feet, and a simultaneous cry came | it from every one in the room: 4 “Vos is dir?" (What alls thee?) T could not play when a child cried; I would drop skipping-rope, ball or|to my feet and listened. My mother, ghuttlecock and go to the child and comfort it. Though playing my games| Who always understood, said quietly: always with the earnestness of a man reading an essay, a crying child would| “Run upstairs, little Rose, it’s some Graw out of me all the chidish playfulness that was in me—just to make the| baby.” BRAS SEE ER BART, Baby stop crying. When I reached the door {t Was Qe nneewrrrnrrrnnennn It ts one of the sad things for me to-day to see women (even men) ut-| locked. The mother hud gone out. ‘The infant's cries grow hoarse, I tore terly indifferent and callous in the presence or in hearing of a child crying,| @t the door, trying to force {t open with my Mittle strength, But it would and I wonder if they've never had any heartaches at all in their childhood,| not yield, The child's cries grew fainter and weaker and it seemed to me or if they have quite forgotten. that unless the mother would come at once or some one force the door and Always after bringing back the sunshine to a lonely or fil-treated little | take the infant !n hia arms, it would die, one there would seem for a short while to be Jess of the woman and more 1 bent down, looked through the keyhole and saw the almost exhausted of the happy child in me, and I would play more in a spirit of lightness, as| infant lying on the only bed in the room, quivering, and with a look on the other children do. ec @ 6 little face that was agonizing to behold, For a moment I was that infant. 1 gave one cry that brought all the nelghhors of the house to the door. The NE day I heard a baby crying in a room right above the one in which} door was forced open, but I was too dazed to go in, 1 stood still on the O we lived, I was winding some twine around a big wpool and pose any while my mother went to the child, @ little song I know. 1 dropped spool and twine and song, started AN INFANT’S CRY But I shall never forget the deep hurt I felt when the mother of the GUGGENHEIM. (WHITE HOUSE {AND ORGAN MUSIC IN FIFTH AVENUE FEUD/$200,000 FOR |INTERPRETER’S Me ”” ri . crying babe returned and laughed at me for “making such a fuss” About a UNeeeeat ia fash a aermuniiae bal HARING ork FLY crying infant. ‘ Hi IN CHILDREN'S GAME, Weenie T have seen children and even adults talting thoughtless de- ae quick look was shot around trom 4 Yih! h ie it (I oy vcueneeey: Eritrea for ioe of ihe cruel vali each to all and then came laughter. It was as if I stood in a pit and an 4 | done are done through pure thoughtlessness) in torturing dumb creatures. A/ acre of earth were suddenly clapped over me, I went quietly back to my cat, a dog, a beetle, a fly! anything alive-—anything that can feel the pang. or, my eyes blinded with the ri ter The child whi It And they call this inhuman pastime “fun.” Throughout the animal world aguiakds Le Sida fe children, who felt ere q i v |! thing, they knew not what, stopped short in their game of flies at the table © throughout the trotting, crawling, flying, swimming world of aulmal life, tared open-mouthed and wide-eyed. § not one creature, great or small, hus ever taken the life of another creature and ptared) oP: ALD excepting in obedience to tho law of self-preservation—for food or in self- GColy eps demaure iste Aion (bay: Gor bless Avr WISTNY Se ae skated away from the merry circle and came over to touch my hand and lay an- defense. While humans-—men, women, children made in the image of God oboe ond knowing love—do without a qualm that for which dumb creatures, it| Other Band caressingly on my head, My heart waa (enya they had sufficient understanding, would look reproach upon us, ° . e FF ‘ T was in the house of a relative in London, 1 was eight years old then, s . cae) Some of the family had gathered at the house and several young men Vin baimit—f 7m i and women—"landsleite.” ‘There were 'also several children, somo . Oa als ¥ HAAS WEDDING) WEDDING RUMOR Ceremony Was of Simple Char-|Society Again Hears Report] “Chase” Hurdy-Gurdy Men acter Owing to Recent Death] that Miss Alice Roosevelt, Who Keep Up a Serenade Be- of the Bride’s Grandfather,| Will Become the Bride of] fore Mrs. Lewis’s Home. Meyer Guggenheim. Congressman Longworth, A Fifth avenue feud, which had smoldered for three years, took ait 8 daughter (Special to ‘The Hvening world.) | notive turn when Walter 8, Gurnee, of 1 BUDE LeMay pean PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, April 12—A|No, 617 Fifth ‘avenue, went to Pollce Se saeine lake Meyer Guagenhelm, was|W@shingten despatch published to-day | Headquarters and complained to Com- oe ea ate we veraay at her home, (2: the Navh Arerl an speaks of the|mietionor McAdoo that organ-eunders. eorttes Fitth avenue, to Hdmund I, | friendship of Mies Alice Roosevelt for| coaxed to the locality of Fifth avenue Haas. The wedding was unostenta-| Nicholas Longworth, Representative | and ‘Thirty-seventh street by the bounty tious, in deference to the compara-|from Oto, as noticeable, and etates | Of Mrs. Mury ‘Taylor Lew of No. ll 5 avenue, W atin ; tively Feoont death of the bride's betgotnale 4 awaiting news of thelr) valid wits beyond endurance. bran . Polico Commissloner McAdoo at once ate r ven ty The original plan before Pag salnans sraanettt of fabric, ta, giver kt |sent a policeman to the neighborhood, Benhelm became I] was ne Congreasman Longworth and Miss|'The bluecoat took a stand in front of wweddlug at Shorry'a in the presence of jevelt will be of Secretary of War| Mrs, Lewis's house, and when an of: ; ihe $00 {nvited guests, As this plan had to] Tett's party that ts ¢o visit the Philtp:| gan.grindor hove in aight drove him be abandoned only immediate relatives |Pines, and Japan, this summer Te) away with his club, / attended the ecremony, which was per-|company for several months, This attracted tho attention of Mrs, formed by the Rey. Dr. Joseph Silver-]| For some time they havo been ween | Lewis, and she inquired the cause. She man, of Temple Emanu-Pl Pruch, Logather, automoriling und Weis,| wae told that eg Mrs, Gurnee was The bride had but one at Roosevelt. had her choles. of visiting | @20ut to undergo a surgical operation Miss Rosalie Ban: Ambassador Whitelaw Reid in London | an effort was being made to keep the of honor, Her father gave her a and 1B introduced at court oF goin | street quiet until she was out of dan- Mr, Hass, the bridegroom, who is a out with the Taft party, Bhe chose tha latter, the gossips say, #0 as to be able | 8 gon of Loule Haas, of this city, had Ve Daye Bie, Longworth’ bomnpeny, Mra. Lewis Sympathetic, for his best man his brother, Harry resaman ie thirty-five year! Mrs. Lewis expressed sympathy for ‘The bride's gown was of white satin, |in is91, from the Olncinnat! Law School | her neighbor was in so serious a con- with Valonctennes lace and polnte de|in 1894 and was elected to Congress ®|aiion whe would not have encouraged Voules, made , with Pts osc Fe Werte 18 Soodtooking and 8) ne organ grinders to come around for the amusement of her children. ¥. — maid of honor, ¥ if I deen i Aealbgda o"ihtioh“ot | EISENBERG-HIRSCH WEDDING) ,,2"%, 22", tes lone deen, known aa Jonas Sonne- grinders. bride; Mr, |Ceremony to ‘Take Pince This Simiey first began to 0 her hous r house end three yoare 36 and afrunea her chil- Sire. ici tacemenaln ae ond Evening at Lenox Assembly — | fren’ ao much chat she rewarded tun Mrs. Bimon Se eae and Revs, nperally. twas a pot BOOE hurdy- aa that @ bri Mrs, ule Meas, Mr. and ars. Samuel’ Gold: The nuptinis of Miss Mary 2l-enberg | from, the toh amit! Louli oth: |and Mr. Harry Hirach will be celebrated alo sonil Me dod atte Witllarm “L, in the Lenox Assembly Rooms, ho. ews of Mra, Lewis's liberalit elbers, and Me. ‘and Mrs, Juit vile. + | spread among the organ grinders poet Rr ind ae cand Ate dtu, Wie | No est ied ipa he aie a toate Naa Drachman, of ¢ ‘will make their home in this aasisted ‘by the Rev, Dr. Btberseld, oft: | 87 tng “the ‘ay, “between but she probably misunderstood th orning and 7 o'clock at t the @ host henge — ee Eisenberg, a Mo Hine gp eke Mie Ot ora, melody, ‘Ac thy Pato, Be noted ‘\ WAS LORILLARD NURSE. ee: er tat el Ee A Or ee oe ee ee re ont pbidursonhht perisatt Then th possession totes | with, money for vvery grinder who paid house ‘a visit, Destitute and feeble, an ol4 woman ee first showed hie cand Mate ttnee heclived an ally 49 ip, war who sald ane had i whe the the ofan ngrinders vera a Maw an i Hey, Mh Buoy: eald uthed ‘Pierre Lorit Semse es Oe aby OM? the ‘Brick’ Presbyterian Hoftm anya Ved & Mr. Gurnee Calls On Police to| HOMES OF FIFTH AV, KHEUDISTS AND CAUSE OF TROUBLE NAVAL HARBOR SONS MISSING ; Congressman Bede Declares|Candlich’s Boys Disappear on ; that Sum Used in San Juan,; Way to School and Father Porto Rico, Would Be Well) Fears They Have Met Foul Spent—Had Interesting Trip.| Play at Hands of His:Enemies { I — | Congressman J. Adam Bede, of Min-| The two sons of Michael J, cance, | Beratal an Geta Ane Aeroer eo eter Ria oeee pL am committee : h } arrived home on the ary transport | "%nted from their home, No, 6 Sixth Sumner, from Porto Rico, sald to-day: | street, for Public School No. 188. at | “It was an interesting trip, and we| Mangan and Houston streets, yesterday! |learned many things which will be of] ang have not bee vse to us in our future deliberations. have Rot bes seen) mnse Te ae "Ono of the most urgent needs | Parents. | brought to our attention Js that that] The missing youths are Michael J.,Jmy jot widening and deepening the har-| aged thirteen, and Alex, aged eleven, bors of Porto Rico, At least 200,000 should bo spent on the harbor at Ban | They Were regular attendants at school, Juan, so {t can shelter a fleet of war |@lways within call of their mother out- vessels if the occasion arises, At pres-| side of school hours, and never mant- ent, there Is not a harbor on the 18+ | rage, Jand large enough to hold more than | 1% ed any disposition to run away fun ltwo or three of the big fighting ships, | Home | “As there is certainly a great future| There was nothing about them to in for ithe ‘sland the money we put in im-| dicate that they did not propose to go provements of !ts harbora will be well|t© school when they left home, Whon | spent. the boys failed to return hone for “Woe stopped at Havana and 1 was|!unch Mrs, Candlich visited the achool astonished to discover it was the clean-|#74 learned they were missing, She lest clty I had ever seen, It wus cleaner | #ent for her husband and he notified than New York or Washington, We the police, Not a trace has been found 3 3 of the youngsters, met Prealdent Palma, of Cuba, and i found him an amiable and interesting| OWINS to his connection with the | gentleman, ue Mr. fertinns has ben bistped, vy ignorant neighbors for alleg We narrowly missed seeing a rovo- brid lution in'San' Domingo, We were there |! Injustice done to Hungarians ars President Morales, whom |ralgned In court, He fears that some seamed greatly Worried fone with a grudge against him hes RRR cero eane either done away with the boys or ts At tho delta of the Mississippl river keeping them In hiding. no our return we had an opportunity ect the work Y the settles |g = Le. 7, ich are to deepen the approac) MPS LOWS TOUSE | XN. ortgane 00 that ‘Unore Will. be \& | depth of thirty-ilve feet of | more y more del . | all the way from the gulf to the olty MOE Noe headers € LP | he Government 1810 a . ORK re Chicago and | this work, About $2,000,000 } is ie mowgg and | has been used and the Improvement, in ef Bae the ohannel js already noticeable Male hole, LUS HIN G fi hehe ee Sate settee He ae Ot Uae had ————_—eE——— BN ony genie" noatity’ contra thor grind. | MOB SHOOTS A cot Rote ees PLA UTUE AVORUIESe TS NIVara eae SHERIFF DEAD. rH Ac sre aw all Unpleasautness could have pul 6 heen ‘avo'd son. uildren should be denied Policemen B: 1 O' Bek SENATOBIA, Miss. April 183—A mob the BS mite ha the muri tney Toved oe as “Sriving away tho grind: | of masked men ontered the jall here nd ‘alata to encourage her noisy bi It will take several cy Biter sare to-day to release a prisoner, and now. pondticee, be become ‘Siesontinus eon 2 He dae cane) with hari phot ths LO dare brag , yh lel we rw oftioer Gens.” Re pana ay