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The care-burdened souls that have struggled from out of the Czar's domain, only to encounter dire misfortune on these shores, are legion. But the future of Betsy Muscova looks bright, when ... See full summary

The care-burdened souls that have struggled from out of the Czar's domain, only to encounter dire misfortune on these shores, are legion. But the future of Betsy Muscova looks bright, when with her aged father she leaves Russia, the only home she ever knew, and turns her face toward the Statue of Liberty, and David, her lover, promises earnestly that he will soon follow her. Arriving here she settles down to work as a dressmaker, and true to plans, David comes through America's gates one year later. Will Betsy allow her lover to go to the sweatshops to grind out a living? No. not she. He must he a professional man, a doctor. Accordingly he enters upon his studies, while Betsy toils patiently at the whirring sewing machine to meet expenses. The new surroundings soon lose their novelty for David, and alas, he comes under new influences. His studies have thrown him into an environment far removed from the heroic Betsy and the machine that is yielding the wherewithal for his future. A ...