MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Mooseheart
was given proper burial by his lodge. Mrs. Cicuto was very ill and would soon give birth to a Struthers Lodge
Luzzie was a native of Ven- By LOUIS W. HARVISON ice, Italy. He lived in that	Mooseheart Student
sunny land until he was twenty-five years old. In the spring of 1909 he married, and brought his wife to America. In their wanderings the couple settled at Struthers, Ohio.
Mr. Cicuto got a job laboring on a railroad at ten dollars per week. Several times he failed to receive his pay. Without money the couple would starve.
Mrs. Cicuto was soon to become a mother. She would need special care, and the care could not be received . if there was no money for payment.
The husband quit the railroad, having hopes of finding other work. Two days went by and no work. Mr. Cicuto wanted to go back to Italy.
America wasn’t what he had been told. In Italy they said it was a land of the free and that true brotherhood reigned everywhere. It was a free land but it wasn’t true brotherhood to cheat a man out of his pay.
Mr. Cicuto went to a large plant in the city ana asked for ־work. The employer happened to be a member of the Loyal Order of Moose of Struthers,
Ohio, Lodge No. 1082. He gave the man work.
The next day when Mr. Cicuto came to work he asked the Boss for some money. He explained that his wife was sick and there was nothing to eat. He was given a week’s pay in advance.
After working at the plant less than a month, the employer asked Mr. Cicuto to come to his office. There he explained to him that he should join the Moose. He told him what it meant and that it taught fraterhalism. Mr. Cicuto joined.
Through his interest in the Moose Mr. Cicuto
fourth child, took care of the mother and children while in sickness and distress.
On December 15 th, Mrs. Cicuto gave birth to a little girl. She was christened and ^ named Louisa. On December 24th, Christ-mas Eve, the mother died, leaving the three small boys and a nine-day old	f:;.A!
baby.
The children were given proper care vS y and in the meantime Struthers Lodge f wired Mooseheart for their acceptance. \ifafe On March 15th, 1919, they came to MOOSEHEART. They were Jacob, [ age 7; Mario, age 4; John, age 2; and \ *•¡Bi Louisa, age 2 months.	Vj
The little baby was very ill and not expected to live, but was immediately transfered to the hospital and placed	-
under the care of a MOOSEHEART mother, who was nursing a child of her own. She nursed it also.
The small boys had never been to school and could speak little English. They were placed under special care, given three good meals a day, and sent to school. Within two months they had been completely changed from their old way of living. .
Today they are among the happiest at MOOSEHEART. They have im-	/
proved in every way and can	fj״ .J¿
fluently speak the English	m
language. The little baby,
Louisa, who weighed five	» ^1
pounds and was very sick lSM1. ,	.־
when she came to MOOSE-	.'AA3g
HEART, is now in the M C- *׳£;_*.■ ’ best of health, and weighs jt £j + «.; .־	?
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