The Little Mother at the Baby Show (1910)
Calling her little girl to her, the dying mother gives her a small bank, in which has been placed the poor woman's scant savings, telling the child it is all she has to leave her, and she hopes her darling will not use them except in case of extreme need. The mother having died, it is six months later when the father brings a stepmother to his little ones. Sue, the little girl, does not take kindly to this invasion of the home, and clasps her baby brother to her breast as though to protect him from a foe. The new wife makes herself at home in her new residence, and gradually begins to show her true nature and real character. She abuses the children and gives them little or no attention. She becomes familiar with the tradesmen and neglects the home. The husband suspects these things and feels disturbed at the condition of affairs. Poor little Sue is anxiously and bravely striving to care for the baby, whom she dearly loves. While tending her charge she sees a sign announcing a baby show, and decides to enter her baby brother as a contestant for the prize. She goes home and takes the little bank containing the savings her mother left her, breaks it open, removes the money and goes with the baby to purchase a suitable outfit for him in further hope that he will win the prize. A new trouble now presents itself, her own clothes are so shabby. An idea comes to her, and she dresses in some of her stepmother's gaudy finery and goes to the baby show, proudly carrying the infant and holding her parasol pompously over their heads. She takes her place with the mother, holding her brother in her lap. The crowds in attendance and the judges pass Sue and the baby without paying any special attention. Back home, broken-hearted, she toddles in with her precious burden, to be met by the stepmother, who is furiously angry when she sees Sue togged out in her finery. She is about to strike the child when the father comes in, stops her, and after some words he orders her from the house. He asks his child's forgiveness for being so regardless of her and the baby, hugs them to his breast and fondly kisses them. Little Sue asks her father to allow her to go and look for her stepmother, and intercedes for her return, feeling she may have repented her actions. The father consents, and Sue is quickly upon the street with her wee brother. The stepmother meets them, now thoroughly sorry and repentant, takes the baby to her breast and sheds tears of love upon its face; she stoops and kisses Sue in supplication to her to forgive her past offenses and unkindness. In response the child takes her by the hand and leads her back to her father's home, where they are united in newness of life and love
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