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Crime cannot be embedded so deep in the nature or heart that kindness and a helping hand cannot eradicate it. No obstacle, though it be as huge as Olympia, can be a bar to the onward battle... See full summary
Crime cannot be embedded so deep in the nature or heart that kindness and a helping hand cannot eradicate it. No obstacle, though it be as huge as Olympia, can be a bar to the onward battle for a better life, if the aspiration is inspired by love. So it is with Ruth, a girl surrounded from childhood with vice and crime; taught the finer arts of the underworld until she is as proficient as her teacher; a willing tool of her father, who is one of the greatest criminals of his time, until kindness and love awaken the good that has never had a chance to develop in her nature. She battles with the inherent tendency toward evil, becomes master of her mind and turns from a life of crime forever. An act of kindness shown her has changed the whole nature of the girl, and she casts to the wind the training of her childhood. Dick Starr, Ruth's father, reading in the daily paper that Broker Marshall will exhibit the family jewels, his wedding gift to his handsome bride-to-be, exclaims in the most...

Released as a split reel along with That Letter from Teddy (1910).

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    • Author: Tojahn
    Hidden and overlaid, perhaps, by the consequences of criminal surroundings and influences, there is in every heart an unmistakable impulse to a better life. If right influences are brought to bear these impulses will develop until they produce a complete change of life. Ruth, in this story, is inured to a life of crime, yet because she is shown a kindness when she had no reason to expect consideration she leaves her old life and begins anew. Long after her benefactor finds her and their two hearts meeting in mutual recognition and trust, they bury their past and together look forward to the future. The picture is simple. It tells a simple story; yet it is dramatic in its suggestion and appeals strongly to one's sense of right because it seems to supply additional proof that the struggle upward of the good in the human heart is not in vain. - The Moving Picture World, September 17, 1910
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