The Last Appeal
Mrs. Ellis, the mother of a crippled girl, is reduced to penury. Alice, her daughter, essays to support the mother, who is in last stages of tuberculosis, by selling papers. The mother has b... Read allMrs. Ellis, the mother of a crippled girl, is reduced to penury. Alice, her daughter, essays to support the mother, who is in last stages of tuberculosis, by selling papers. The mother has been abandoned by her husband just prior to the birth of the child and in her desperation, ... Read allMrs. Ellis, the mother of a crippled girl, is reduced to penury. Alice, her daughter, essays to support the mother, who is in last stages of tuberculosis, by selling papers. The mother has been abandoned by her husband just prior to the birth of the child and in her desperation, she writes him a letter announcing that she has but a short time to live, imploring him to... Read all