Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-21 | Page 11 | Leper Nurse Finds Herself an Outcast

LEPER NURSE FINDS 1 BSELFJNOllTCIISi; Miss Marie Collier Gives Up Idea of Suicide and Accepts Ac-cepts Her Fate. CHICAGO. Oct. Mlw Mrt Cottier, wbe dlMintar PrWar. lriag a nte Mtjrlnjr thai bad ben Kruze4 Iry oi9Vr bNO.M J lie Jormr1y vraa k nttrse In a, ltrr eolowy. returl to4r. ffho aMrtd Uwt the unfona4 re-trl re-trl that b wu a(rrUic from lopror. ORmlac "r frinoda lo forn)tc hr. bad m ttrourmfJ her that h had determined deter-mined to rhool hoTMlf. Sh mid that tle A. neunln of WllwimkfM!. n ac-qo&lntajtc. ac-qo&lntajtc. had lerull her not to ond htr life "I booimr. fo dtplr1t9d rrtdjiy that I docidfl thrs wa no use llriny any kKir." said Mlf Colllor. "I il4Mtr0yd markM of IdfttttlfVatloa on my rlothlntc I and mj I wax tar1nr P old lttra I oame awooa one (mm Mlu Ilenjamln. In It nhe toM me that If 1 e-ver Intended to take my life to pay hor a visit first. I totd her a long- time a So that I would kill myaelf Mme time. "MIm Uenjnmln brightened me up nnd I now Intend to no bark to the lepera. I am an outcast of society. A number of doctor hare made lamination and reported that I am fne from leprosy, but my friends refus to bolltve It If 1 fro to any Ktherlnr th crowd near rao dwindles until I find myaelf standing' alone "I have taken an Inventory of my life and I can ee no ray of hope. I nnt letters today to a number of leper col-onloN col-onloN In the United Ktaten atkln? for a position an a nurse. In ?e I cannot Ket such emplormant In this country I will ko to nn Inland nMr Canton, China, whore nurfto rt netdod to take rare of 1 opera." llsn Collier npent several months at a Jopor eolony near Tracadlo, New Tlruna-wiek. Tlruna-wiek. She wax forced to leave becauao the climate was breaking down hur health.