The day book. [volume], November 01, 1913, LAST EDITION, Image 3

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dishes are washed at night I have
my studies."
Miss Lawrence is sure Elizabeth
Curtis was not overworked at Mrs.
Bright's home, since the girl never
complained to her, and Miss Law
rence declares that Mrs. Bright treat-
? Elizabeth attended night school for
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mestic science course to perfect her
in housework. Meanwhile, a trades
man who called at Mrs. Bright's
home and met Elizabeth in the ca
pacity of maid, conducted a court
ship, but it was not until the girl
was about to become a mother that
Mrs. Bright or Miss Lawrence knew
this, according to Miss Lawrence's
story.
The man was arrested. He was a
coward as well as a scoundrel and
had married another girl immediately
upon learning of Elizabeth's condi
tion. Miss Lawrence meant to make
him contribute to the, child's support,
but while the case was pending Eliza
beth declared she settled it out of
court and would not nlake charges.
Miss Lawrence is very careful to
state that though the girl had re
mained in the employ of Mrs. Bright,
though she had continued under the
surveillance of Miss Lawrence and
Officer Colby of the Juvenile court,
she was of age and no longer a ward
of the court when this "terrible"
thing happened.
But, notwithstanding this fact,
Miss Lawrence took the girl to the
Juvenile Court and, at" her recom
mendation, "because Elizabeth loved
her little baby so much," Judge
ft Pinkney graciously permitted the girl
to keep her child. v
""" Elizabeth was now practically
adrift Mrs. Bright could not take
her back, with her baby, though she
arrangedwith a friend in the country
to let Elizabeth work and keep the
baby with her, but Elizabeth did not
apparently appreciate this kindness
and declined the offer.
Her first knowledge that she had
a "foster mother" instead of a "real"
mother had come when she '-was
made a ward of the Juvenile Court,
and it had changed confiding love
to a proud resolve that she "would
show them she could be a girl to be
proud of," so she would not turn to
her foster mother in her trouble nor
give her any knowledge of it.
What happened to the girl after
that is a matter of conjecture. That
she attempted to earn her living by
giving piano lessons in a flat on Ver
non avenue is established, and it is
alleged that she purchased a piano
on the installment plan, sold it when
she was destitute, and committed
suicide when too hard pressed.
Miss Lawrerice does not believe
that Elizabeth is dead. She expects
to answer the question: Did Eliza
beth Curtis really kill herself by
jumping into Lake Michigan, or did
she arrange the suicide plan that she
might simply sink from sight and
work out her problem in the way she
thought best without assistance from
those who have apparently failed to
help her in the past.
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GIRL COULDNT EARN ENOUGH
ARREST WAS RELIEF
New York, Nov. 1. Irene LaHecla,
who has been working in a New York
department store, and making only
enough money to buy food, wag ar
rested for vagrancy when a .Harlem
apartment house janitor found her
on the roof huddled against a hot
chimney.
She was arraigned today in the
Harlem police court but she wasn't
worried, for she slept last night in a
real bed for the second time in two
weeks. And she had a warm break
fast for the first time in days.
"My father got sick and was taken
to Roosevelt Hospital," she told the
police. "That left my stepmother
and me and my little brother with
out money. New Jersey took my
brother and my mother disappeared.
Then they put me out of our rooms,
because I hadn't any money.
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