Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-26

pothetic story, this one unfolded
,n,rr by little Mary Wenlock, the
o,d shenandoah tPa) girl who
% philadelphia, lured here by the
q, oa she sat in the Court Aid So
.oon 1904 Summer street.
is nothing but child in a sailor
sno nd short skirts. But in her little
..,s md head today there are the sor-
~ ~ a lifetime as she tells of her eX-
FNoos Fgs since she came to "see the big
ayr
N has passed the stage where she can
ee rr,,ipp might bring her rclief-but
1 !, eyes are dry, and her young tace is
G az she talks of the experiences she
4 n had in the last three weeks since sl't
a away from home.
u,ry is the daughter of well-to-do peo-
,a A Shenandoah. Her father is min
4 Il contractor. She was the apple OF ms
i md the little mother of 4-year-old
1 ~ w. Her mother is an invalid and can
! 4 r.,,e In the care of the home and the
4 saSren. Mary has been the housekeeper
4 b years.
4 aOh don't know why l was sNch
4 "A as TO leave home" she said. "I had
! % nice at home. and did not reaii"c
+ Tbere are lots of other girls who
! hye II nice like did. | nope thcy proht
4 I. wbat have suffered. Nothing was too
4 prch or too expensive for my father to
+. 7. for me. But you see, l was foolish.
/ 4 was not for the boys that l lonFed-it
i y. INST for n good time. I wanted to 20
4 4 dances and to the movies, but my
4 ,ople we're strict, and I thought that
IAN best. If had only listened to them,
would never he here.
rWel. I scrapped and sassed my moth
. somethIng awful" she said, with n
rnsye expression in her big childish
ms which have seen so much sordidneSs
frce she came to Philadelphia. "And so
~ day when ! was particularly sassy
nv father said that / was breaking his
Mart and my mothers heart and sending
ny little sister to the grave, because she
sntd for me and l was out at dances and
novies in the evening. He told me he
would do everything he possibly coul6 to
make me contented at home, but If l
yould not be, he would have to put me
ivsY somewhere.
aThat settled me-" she said. "I was an
svful fool. So | said I'd go away |
paced my things before my mothers
syts She never thought I meant it,
But ! did Another girl. Helena, and |
Hne together. We took n room. | had
Nue money, so we paid our rent. But
y did not get my work.
MEETS OLD "FRIEND."
Then one evening we were in the
Reading Terminal and there we saw
fsry prominent man from our home town.
Pfiiz Heffner that is what we call him at
Aome. He has a grand wife there and n
Fyear-Old daughter. He said he would
ake us to his home until we got settled
hsre and had work. so we went. 1t Is at
lg Summer street. He took us I'm the
pack way through an alley because-I
have since found Quit was bad house
nder the vice quarantine. There he had
Aoher wife and a 6-year-old daughter
Mother oae.
w stayed there for ii while, and the
eher wife started to give us instructions
'pout how to prOsT =" i'm big city. 1t
vas terrible" and the child covered her
ls with her hands as though to wipe
lal The memories of it all
would not do it, and finally she said
" ~ could not and would not keep me. so
'ne sent me out. Only | wish she had
lleh wiekedness there is I'm the world
na on, do hope that other girls will be
A,ea oy the experience have had. They
,ss'sr can tell who their friends are.
agusht That this man Heffner was all
sne lie belongs to a fine family at
'nisi Dut mercy what he is doing here!
NOTIFIES THE POLICE.
4 notified the police after got out of
.N place, and they went and got the
M ssr sirls out, too." she added, "and
" = am In an awful mess. Why didn't
sAy az home and mind my mother?
us usss other girls are mad at me for get
v 'hem in this predicament, and of
,-se mere will be a terrible scandal at
~ ~ when 1t is found that Heffner has
,e M. leading a double life. His wife,
4 iI'1soeIh' .s' is in the hospital now 1t is
.ell you, when I get home again l
= so'hs to mind my mother"