A Home Without Children

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The story treats upon the lives of a happily married couple who have everything that money can buy, but lack that which they most desire, the love of a tender, little child. The man has been married before, and although having a little girl who is being cared for by a friend, he has never informed his wife of the existence of the youngster. The good woman is a philanthropist, and makes daily trips to the homes of the rich, collecting money for the orphans. One day she happens into the place where her husband's little daughter is living, and without ever realizing that the child is so closely related to her, she takes a great fancy to the little girl, and the feeling being mutual, it is with great difficulty that the kind-hearted woman tears herself away from the child. Immediately after her departure, her husband comes to visit his little girl, and while the latter is telling her daddy of the strange lady, he picks up the parasol which she left behind, and immediately recognizes it as the property of his wife. At this juncture the latter returns for the parasol, and is greatly surprised to meet her husband, of whom she demands an explanation. The bewildered man confesses, but his wife who doubts his veracity, leaves the place after denouncing him for his base deception. The couple arrive home about the same time, and the husband is not long in convincing his wife that all he said was true, for going to his desk he produces the last letter he ever received from his former wife, before she died, in which she requests him to marry again and be kind to their little girl. The good woman upon hearing the truth of the matter starts out immediately, and soon returns with the child, whom she takes to her heart, and gladly accepts the little one into the happy home, where she will be raised under the careful guidance of her father and stepmother who loves her like her own.