The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-02

sitting alone. 1 went up and asked her
 where she was going. She said up the road to see her aunt. I commented upon
 the fact that she didn't have any bag gage not even a handbag, and very few girls leave home these days without a powder puff or nighte at least, or something or other. She explained that her aunt had all these things and she didn't need to take them. l took her at her word but I was a bit suspicious just the same. So I watched her and looked at her ticket when she went through the gate, and sure enough that time the case was just as it was represented. Her ticket read to the place she had men toned. About two weeks afterward how ever, the girls mother came to me in tears, asking if I had seen her daughter. I told her hadn't since certain day, re lating the incident I have just told you. Then the mother told me she had ran away; had become stage struck, and that trip to her aunt was merely trial trip to see If she could get away. She didn leave from the Terminal station. however. when she made her final dash for liberty. but went in another direction, thus avoid ing me and later when l chanced to see the girls mother and we were talking about her, the mother told me that the | girl had said that the reason she didn go to some other place than the one she chose was because she'd have to meet
 that old woman at the Terminal station l that asked so many questions, So you see the reputation I have acquired for myself.
 There's one old lady" said Mrs. Wal
 pole, who comes to Birmingham every now and then, who is a perfect pest 10 me. She always lands AT the station and
 tells me that she is expecting her son | to meet her and he never does Ihe 1 son moves about frequently and l al-
 ways have to take care of the old lady
 until can locate him. The last time she arrived in Birmingham it took me exactly | two hours to look him up and get the old I lady settled"
 | What about the foreigners, the Greeks, Savs, Swedes and Italians?' l asked ] iHow do you manage about them?
 1 Different methods are used With dif- 1 ferent nationalities," said Mrs. Walpole. "One of the most successful being in the
 case of the Italians, final reference of
 their troubles to the fruit vendors across
 the way, resulting usually In an invita- | ton for supper and during the meal the
 necessary information they desire being
 given. Most of the foreigners are en
 route to Wylam, Ensley and the mining
 camps and in one case recently had
 fearful time of it. There was a Greek
 woman. You know there are n great
 many different varieties of Greeks; and
 this one couldn't speak word of English l or anything else that anybody ever heard
 She had some papers and l referred them
 to different Greeks and they couldn't
 make head or tail of them. The pooi l woman would stand and stare at ms | with the great tears rolling down hel
 cheeks, out of her beautiful brown eyes
 like a hunted animal-and there I wa! powerless to help her. Finally It dawnet
 upon me that once knew Greek woman
 who kept fruit stand down the street
 not far from the station. and there went with the stranger and the letters Sure enough they were of the sam
 brand, or breed. or whatever you'd say and I don't remember in all my expe
 rience a happier sight than that poo woman from across the waters at las fiji ding kindred tongue to speak her na tive language. She was looking for he husband, who was at Ensley, and W got her there safely and happily and sh is still residing there.
 The very worst class we have to dea with continued Mrs. Waipole, "is. o course. the ignorant people who come t the city. I recall one poor woman iron the country who arrived here and she Wa taken in charge by a lady at West End