MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE ARRESTED.
ROMANCE OF LONDON AND NEW YORK GHETTOS. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes is, according to a Central News message from Chicago, one of 8S "Communists" who have been arrested on charges of plotting against the United States Government. Mrs. Stokes' maiden name was Pastor. She was bora in Pussia, of very poor Jewish parents, and was brought to London as a child. Later she was barely able to keep body and soul together on the miserable pittance she could earn as a cigar maker in Whitechapel. Her schooling was almost negligible, but she educated herself in her spare time, spending on books money that might, have gone for food. On one occasion, having eaten nothing for 48 hours, she wrote the following touching little poem: — FEEDING THE SPARROWS. My last crumb I feed to you; I pray the Lord to feed me, too. For I'm so hungry, bidies sweet, And no one gives me bread to eat. The crumbs you pick were laid away From bread I ate ere yesterday. Since when J have not tasted food; But—"He will care" and "all is good." My heart is full, my table bare; Yet "all is good" and "He will care,'' So little sparrows, take your fill Of crumbs from off by window sill. After her father's death she emigrated to the States, and worked in a tobacco factory. Her writings brought lier to the notice of Ml". J. G. Phelps Stokes, the millionaire, who gave her a literary appointment. He was lm.inediately attracted by her striking personality, and courted her as they worked together among the poor of New York. They became engaged, and until the eve of tiie wedding, with her lover's consent, she went back to work in the cigar factory. She was married in 'IOO6, and as the bride of a. millionaire, revisited the scenes of her early poverty in the London Ghetto.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5
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317MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE ARRESTED. Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1920, Page 5
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