1913 - Nursed Lepers: Friends Shun Her

Chicago, Nov. 6. - Failing in her effort to win for herself a desirable place, socially and industrially in the "world of the living," Miss Marie Colliers, formerly the nurse to lepers at the colony at Tracadie, New Brunswick, has decided to sacrifice the remainder of her life - she is only 25 - to the work of caring for the "living dead." Miss Colliers, miraculously it seems, is not contaminated by the slightest trace of the dread lepers disease. Physicians state this to be a fact. Yet, her old friends and new acquaintances shun her becaus of the fact that she has nursed these most accursed of human beings. "They are polite, my friends," says Miss Colliers, "but they always edge away from me. So I am going back to the lepers, who are not afraid of me."