The Washington times., 1912-06-17
B|NFORD
AN OFFICE GIRL
At $40 A WEEK
Under Another Name She
Is Earning an Honest
Living.
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Aren't Are you ashamed to be doing work
Why. no.. told him, I have to-.
Well, It may be all right, for somc
people the little imp said, but my sis
ter doesn't have to do it.
Early to Bed.
when I get through at the office"
she went on. II go home and have din
ner. then the family and I sit out on
the stoop until about 8 o'clock. then
we go in and I read until bedtime. Or
maybe some Of us go for a walk or to
a moving picture show. but am living
AT the time Of the Beattie trial the
short sordid story OF Beulah Binford
was told-how she had never had the
benefit Of any home Influences. She
life up to that time had bcen a sue
cession Of degrading incidents, culm,-
mating in the disgrace OF the Beattie
murder.
But as you look at her, it is almost
impossible to realize what she has gone
through. Your first impression is that
OF a young girl, somewhat light in char
acter, perhaps, but not vicious or har-
dened. Her eyes are blue and clear,
her nose retrousse and little too short.
Her lips are not ell-modeled-they are
:ed. however, and her teeth are unusual
ly white and pretty.
Her yellowtsh hair is curled in the
style popular in small towns, but the
girl for all that has a great deal of nat
ural style, and makes an excellent ap-
pearance. Her voice is excellent, being
refined and low, and her greatest
charms are her laugh and an air of
gayety and good humor which is very
small and well shaped.
There Is something almost gallant in
her gauant bearing against the back
ground of Broadway, so small and
young she Is, to be up against the me-
responsibility.
Good In New York.
New York is the best place in the
world to do what I am trying to do"
Buelah Binford said, with her bright
smile. you always hear the opposite,
but believe that for people who want
to turn over a new leaf and start over
New York Is the place.
There Is something charitable in the
spirit OF the towl. 1t seems to say,
No matter what you have been or have
done. there is another opportunity for
you here Nobody is shocked by you
nothing amazes the town, 1t doesn't
spend its time gaping at you, as hap
PensII,na pens IN other s towns There is so much
your history and II you are doing Just
right now that's all 1t wants to know.
There is something else about New
York that makes 1t the place for any
again. You can lose yourself easily in
1t. In a smaller town you are a mark
ed figure, but here nobody inquiries
about you-who you are or what you
have been.
You can't imagine what a relief that
is to me! I have knocked about from
pillar to post so long. why down home
crowds Of people would follow me on
the streets hooting at me and soaring
chief Of police Of Richmond said that
II I came back to town he would have
me drummed out. What had I done?
I tell you it's terrible when the whole
world gets down on you that way.
Saw No Wrong.
"Of course. there have been hard
knocks here, too. When I came up to
pose in moving picture plays l didn't
see anything wrong in what I was 60
ing to do; It was Just way for me to
make a living. Well. there was such a
things about me that the plan fell
through.
Nobody would give me a chance to
work. and landladies wouldn't let me
stay in their houses If they found out
job, an actress came into the office.
She was a big. painted, overdressed
creature, and she said to me: Say is
Beulah Binford working here?'
mo I said. there's nobody of that
name here
"'I heard there was.' she replied. I
would like to see her, She ought to be
tarred and feathered.'
why have you changed your plan of
life?" Miss Binford was asked.
well, I never realized what life
meant until the horror Of the trial." she
replied slowly. You see, I was started
wrong, and it never occurred to me to
change my way of life. Besides. could
not have done so II I wished. There
was nothing I could have got to do, and
nobody would have given me chance.
You don't know how things are in a
Southern town unless you have had ao-
tual experience.
Decides to Change.
But when the trial came and I saw
what the wrong way Of life leads to |
made up my mind to live differently.
There's nothing in the other way of liv-
ing-there's nothing to look forward 10
there's no happiness and no reward"
Are you happy now?' she was
asked.
Il was never so happy in my life."
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