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A sorrowing mother, bereft of her infant, visits a foundling asylum and adopts a baby girl. The young widow lavishes her love and care on the adopted infant and her environment is the ... See full summary

A sorrowing mother, bereft of her infant, visits a foundling asylum and adopts a baby girl. The young widow lavishes her love and care on the adopted infant and her environment is the finest. The story is allegorical in theme. Father Time presents the baby with an hour glass containing '"The Sands of Time." which are all in the upper part of the glass. The story of her subsequent life shows how heredity overbalances environment. The girl grows wayward in spite of all the efforts of her devoted parent. With rare tact and patience the lonely mother again and again unsuccessfully attempts to direct the girl's destinies to a noble womanhood. Finally heredity asserts itself; the child breaks away, and in a distant city lives a life of her own choosing. Here she travels the primrose path till the very end. At stated intervals during her life, Father Time appears to her and shows the hourglass with the sands half run. But she will not heed nor change her life. Now in middle age, beauty and ...