The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-20
SHE'S "ELIzABETHy NOW
New York Correspondence Cincinnati
 Times-Star.

New York Correspondence Cincinnati Times-Star.
 Every morning Elizabeth goes to her work in an. office building on Forty-dfth street. In spite of the subway crush she reaches her desk in a cheerful mood. All day long she works hard. She isn't par ticularly intelligent girl, nor does she earn much of a salary At night she puts on a modest little hat and shrugs into a coat that shows some signs of wear, and joins the thousands of other girls from shop and office who are fighting their way toward their thousands of homes. No one pays any attention to her. She is just drab item among so many, unnoticeable for beauty, aor sparkle, or clothes. "Only let me be- she begs of the world. q hope that my name is never again printed in a paper. l want to tbe just good. hard working girl. going at night to a good home. want to be forgotten"
 once she was Beulah Binford. As youngster. she never had a chance Her sordid. depressing little story is known 10 every reader of the newspapers Morally she was dead as a mummy. She mad never in all her life known anything that might have elevated her. She had never had clean home or a decent companion. She didn't know in what fashion the world regards her kind, until she was caught in the meshes of tragedy. Then the sob ping sisterhood gushed columns of piffling emotionalism over her. Good peo- pie shraak from her. Somehow she be- gan to see herself as others saw her. She began to shrink from the mean and de- graded men and women who fought to share her notcriety. But she was penni- less. In the hope that she might earn a decent living she came to New York. Press and pulpit and public frowned upon her. The silly film pictures for which she posed were forbidden, not because they were harmful, but because her name was connected with them. She appeared in commonplace little vaudeville sketch. She had not a particle of ability as an actress, but she impressed those who talked with her as being singularly child like in her attitude toward the world Not all of the filth through which she passed had clung to her garments
 Not one charitable society in town would aid her, though her few friends asked without her knowedge-that she be given refuge and schooling for year or so, until her miserable little life story mad been forgotten. Not one of the million protesting church membefs of New York came forward with an offer of help Mill lions of dollars are spent annually on charity in New York. Thousands of men and woman live through their connection with charitable societies. Only those who would pull her down again reached out their hands.
 Fortunately, the man who sought to make money by the films in which she figured has a soft heart and a good deal of fighting blood. He isn't a churchman. His wife doesn't worry him vastly about that. The pair took the girl in-she is hardly r years old-and made her a place in their home Under the name of Eliza
 f--te ne doesn't matter-she is
 slI Jry day She isn't trying , t3i past in which she never ha H, She only asks that the 54e ee fsfasi.aa She is trying to make rtg she won't succeed. The a9cUIra a pom entage is against her. cat of Fe . lan. people in New York 8s- ,red helpirs- s.a anas---.---s
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