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even if you were a stranger I should be glad to help you and then the thought came to me. How should I know of your need if you did not tell me and something prompted me to write you. I am a married woman and work in a store in town for [$2.50? $2.00?] pr week. My husband has lost his health and is not able to work but does manage to do enough to just about take care of himself. He has some kind of nervous trouble, has been sick more or less for over two years and the Dr does not give me much encouragement that he will be better very soon.

My Father and Mother live with me and they are getting quite old, 73 years. They have always worked very hard and been prudent and have managed to get enough together to nearly pay for our little humble home

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but Father is a watchmaker by trade and his eyesight is failing him and he can not do the work he used to so cannot earn much and we owe a mortgage of $200, on our home and we also owe about $200, other debts and I do not see how we can ever pay it all and it would nearly kill my Father and Mother to be obliged to give up their little home in their old age and it almost breaks my heart to see my Father looking so haggard and worried and to know that my Mother is having many sleepless nights thinking and worrying over our trouble and I often wake in the night and get to thinking it all over and I find myself first cold and then the perspiration will start out all over me and it seems as though I would go crazy over it all, I often turn