CHILD STRANDED IN L.A. DEPOT KEEPS VIGIL FOR MOTHER Find Tiny Tot Waiting for Parent After Trip From North Bravely fighting back tears, 7-year old Wanda Baker waited patiently at the entrance of the Southern Pacific station here toady for her mother. As the hours dragged by the little one grew weary of her constant vigil. It was a doleful bit of humanity when finally rescued by Miss Eleanore Kimble of the Travelers' Aid society, who elicited the cause of misery from the child. A week ago, the child said, her mother, Mrs. Elsie Barber, came to Los Angeles in search of work. Wanda was left in the care of an aunt in Myrtle Creek, Ore. "But auntie didn't want me," the child confessed. "So she sent mamma a telegram addressed just to Los Angeles and put me on the train." " 'They'll find your mother somehow and she'll be there to meet you when you arrive,' my auntie said. "That's why I waited at the entrance. Mamma will come when she gets the message, I'm sure." All that Wanda knows about where her mother is employed is that "she works behind a counter somewhere." The child is being cared for by the Travelers Aid Society until the mother is located. ---Los Angeles Herald, December 2, 1923

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