The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-05-08
CHRISTIAN WOMEN
ARE MERC|FUL
UNFORTUNATE GIRL SAYS SHE
WILL PROVE HERSELF WORTHY
NERVOUS FROM WORRY.

There stood out in bold letters be
fore me, as | sat alone in that room
business gone, threatened with paraly-
sis, penniless and | thought no one
cared anyway and went to the boz
OF tablets and took all that remained
these are the words OF Miss Earle
Klepinger, the German girl, who has
had charge Of the Wilmington cigar
stand. She did take the tablets and
when she began to feel the effects she
wrote note concerning her furniture
ON which she had paid $40. The eve
ming before, she SAID, she was very
despondent: that she had lost her BUS
mess; that an attorney told her she
would have to give bond to repleyy
the merchandise; She had no way Of
making a bond; two small checks
were out and she would have no funds
to meet them and she was suffering
intensely with headache. She began
taking headache tablets, but they raiI-
ed to give her relief, and when She
began to feel somewhat dazed from
the medicine, she decided to take all
she had in the box. Her life was saved
and she is now pennless at the sani-
tarium. Mrs. Holden of the Benevo-
lent Society is looking out for a room
for her this afternoon.
Miss Klepinger, in telling her story,
said: Mrs. Bell visited me and gave
me some money and Mrs. Frame visit
ed me and gave me some money and
that is every cent have. Mr., Young
will return the payment | made il;p
on the furniture, then | will deposit
the money and notify the people hold
ing my checks to send them in and
get the money. Several ladies visited
me. but | have been so dazed that |
do not remember all of them. I am a
member of the Christian church and
church every Sunday. Here | have
had to work all the time and could
not go. Mr. Kinney told me that peo
pie criticized me for wearing good
clothes. They may have looked flashy
as he said, but | wore those white
slippers because I had no money to
buy shoes. The velvet hat he spoke
of, | made myself out of the scraps
from my dress, and the only money
required was to purchase two quil.s TO
stick in the crown. Since ! have been
in Ardmore ! have bought one ging-
ham dress and it is there in the closet
now | had a hat laid away at the
millinery store, but never got money
enough to take it out. had to leave
the Wilmington because it was too
expensive and Mrs. Wilmington was
mighty good to me, but she said she
could not board me cheaper than $i5
month. ! then rented a s. a month
room and bought furniture on install
ments to furnish it and was taking the
cheapest meals | could get in order to
live and make enough money to pay
out the cigar stock. They tell me, too,
that ! was criticized for taking walks
and horseback rides and in doing that
| was carrying out the instructions of
two physicians, who told me that
must not stand fifteen hours a day on
that concrete floor, and that | must
walk or ride, or | would suffer from
paralysis as | was threatened with it,
Yes" She said, my parents are
vice or hep. SO many girls who live
al home and work for 500 or $25 a
month. that it makes it hard for other
girls who have no home, to earn their
living. To pay board and room rent
and live, | must make $40 a month
Since have lived here, ! have WORKED
every day and every evening and have
not had an opportunity to get ac-
quainted with anybody but since M
misfortune came and the women OF
Ardmore have come to my rescue in
the way they have, I hope to stay
here for awhile at least, and show
these Christian women who have been
merciful to me, that | am worthy Of
what they have done.
"No [ am not sick in my body, I eat
nothing, took three powders last night
before sleep came to my eyes, and |
am sick in my mind, and I must have
something to relieve my worry or it
would be better for me to die"
This is the story told by the girl
as she lay in her room at the sani-
tarium and when she said she was
criticized for doing the things the doe
tors told her to do, and when she was