Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-22

Mile s. wants 10 be good. six months
ago somebody gave her a pinch OF heroin
TO snin She did not exactly like IL, but
she asked for more Soon, says Mile.
she wanted Il tust as one wants something
70 eat only Mile preferred heroin to food.
About three weeks ago a policeman picked
up Millie, her eyes glazed, her brain stupe-
fed. The road led by way of City Hall to
Holmesburg, where Millie has just COM
pleted the dope cure. Her sentence has
some months to go, but Mi1lie Is looking
ahead; she wants TO come back and make
good.
Somebody gave Il TO me. a girl here in
Philadelphia" said Mile. who comes from
New York Just somebody, not anybody
In particular tried a little one day and
didn't like IT, II just makes you sleepy.
got sleepier and sleepler and ] couldn't
do any work. I didn't want anything but
the stun and didn't want to do anything
Then I got out here"
Mile, twenty years OF age, has had n
rapid recovery, Two weeks in the hospital
at Holmesburg have sufficed to cure the
habit Today Mile is only afraid of the
day when she leaves the gray dormitory
Because not one OF the persons who knew
the Millie-that-was knows what has become
Of the Mille-that-ls.
WANTS TO GO HOME
l. "And I want TO be good again before
go home" said Millie today. II couldn't
go home like this from here. I want TO go
TO work. And then some day when I've got
money saved I'll go home"
Home TO Milie is somewhere in Ger
many. When twelve years old she came to
America TO stay with an elder brother. She
went home on a visit two years later and
stayed there until she was seventeen. Then
she came back to the United States, to New
York and eventually TO Philadelphia. And
then somebody gave her a snifr Of heroin
II can sew and can embroider," said
Millie." I can cook like the Germans cook
cause my mother taught me. 1 want to go
home, but I'm afraid. If 1 work a while
doing housework they'll think I've been
doing 1t all the time. I want to forget II.
My brother would never let me come back.
Brothers amt mothers and / amt heard
from my mother and father for more than
year. Not since"
ANOTHER CURE
Millie isn't the only woman who wants TO
come back Jennie is an old timer She
has been accustomed to sniff heroin for
more than seven years A friend" gave
her a sample snin one day. She found it
helped her to sleep. Just a little every
day, but II wasn't a habit, Jennie insists.
Sometimes she went without II for six
months at time. Proudly she insists she
has had the habit for the last six months
only. Before that she was almost all
right
Before the HARRISON act" explained
Jennie, 81 just bought little at time, but
after the act had to buy It by the bottle.
Then had It always on hand and took
more and more. Couldn't get off il.
Hard to get? Say. 1t cost five dollars
small bottle and IT was easier to get the
heroin than it was to get the money.
you can get 1t anywhere. 1 travelled
with my husband in Canada and around
here and always found 1t easy
I've had the cure. Glad it's over. Got
n hrnN Nbnr In. nHfx xuhn uatd haf1 Ia1va
me II was cured. Guess I'm all right now.
Yelled all night in the station house when
they brought me in and screamed all the
way out on the boat. Went to chapel on
Sunday, and it was hard to sit still, but
didn't yell or nothing. I'm cured"
Upstairs in the hospital are several
women undergoing the cure. BY dimin-
ishing the dose the women ara gradually