MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE ARRESTED

Evening Star, Issue 17316, 1 April 1920, Page 1

MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE ARRESTED

ROMANCE OP LONDON AND NEW YORK GHETTOS. Airs Hose Pastor Stokes is, according to a Central News message from Chicago, one of-85 “Communists” who have been anested ou charges of plotting against the United States Government. .Mrs Stokes's maiden name was Pastor. She was born in Russia, of very poor Jewish parents, and was brought to Londrn as a child. Later she was barelv able to keep body and soul together on the miserable pittance she . could earn ns a cigar maker in Whitechapel. Her‘schoolmg 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. r or I m so hungry, birdies sweet. And no one gives me.bread to eat. The crumbs you pick were laid aivav I rom bread I ate ere yesterday. Since when I have not Lasted food ; But—“Ho will caie” and “all is good.” My heart is full, my table bare; let “all is good” and “Ho will care.” So, little sparrows, take your till Of cTurabs from off my window sill. After her father s death she emigrated to the States, and worked in a tobacco lactory. Her writings brought her to the notice of Mr J. G. Phelps Stokes. * the millionaire, \vho gave her a literary appointment. He- was immediately attiacicc 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 the wedding, with her lover's consent, she went back to work in the cigar factorsShe was married m 1906, and as the Imcle or a millionaire revisited the scenes nt her early poverty in tire London