Plot
Mrs. Ryan (Adrienne Kroell) is one of those dear, sweet faced, hard working mothers of the city tenement districts, who work for their more fortunate sisters of the upper class. Mrs. Ryan is employed in the home of Mrs. Martin. She is discharged by Mrs. Martin because of the accident in which a rug is injured. After a vain struggle to secure other employment by which she can support her little daughter and herself, she is taken sick and both mother and daughter face starvation. Myra (Reine Greenwood) the child, grasping the situation starts out in a final effort to secure food. She tries every method that occurs to her little mind but all of them fail to secure the necessary food. At last, she in her necessity, yields to a strong temptation and appropriates a box of groceries intended for Mrs. Martin (Adrienne Kroell). On her way home with the stolen property she stops to listen to the exhortations of a street preacher, who has chosen for his sermon on that particular occasion, the commandment "Thou shalt not steal". The talk of the minister is to convincing that the child repents here action and returns the box of food to the home of Mrs. Martin. That lady, on hearing the child' story is also repentant and having heard the voice of warning, she accompanies Myra to the tenement building and after providing for Mrs. Ryan, assures her that her old position will be waiting for her when she is able to return.
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