The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-26
LOUISVILLE GHOSTS,
Some Lively Boarding School Girls Paint
the Town White at Night.

Some Lively Boarding School Girls Paint
the Town White at Night.
Those night providers who passed along
Broadway from Second street to Fourth
Sunday morning from midnight to day.
break beheld an unusual sight, and one
that puzzled many specializing heads.
The apparently inexplicable scene was
nothing less than half a dozen young
girls, ranging from fourteen to seventeen
wears of age, who had stolen from their
homes in the dead of night and started
out to have bit of jolly but innocent
fun.
At such unusual hours of the night
Broadway is as quiet as graveyard,
but on that morning an observer might
have seen more than one snow white
nightcap peering from the windows on
each side of the street to search for the
cause of the continued chattering of fe-
male voices that sounded doubly strange
on the still night air. Several weary
men who had toiled at their night work
started as they plodded home at the
strange white figures that raced up and
down the street car tracks as though
they had been ghosts Of the little mules
that had pulled the cars so long.
The explanation of the mysterious fig
ures was not made until the dawn of the
morning resolved them into real live
girls, all robed in white and wearing
green wreaths about their dear, uncOv-
cred heads. The merry party did not
cease their rompings and slip back to
their couches until after daylight, and it
was an easy matter at 4 o'clock to dis
tinguish their faces. The girls all board
in the neighborhood and have been at
tending school together in this city. 1t
was not long before they would have to
return to their country homes, and on
Saturday plot was matured to have "a
merry night of it."
1t SO happened that every one in the
house where they lived had gone away
to spend the night except two aged
women, who presented no difficulty in
the way of the young fun seekers. 4
number of girls living close by were
brought into the little conspiracy, and
when all the household was buried in
sleep they prepared to sally forth. It
was just at midnight when they crept
cautiously from their couches, donned
their clothes and slipped out the door.
At first they were evidently very timid,
and for an hour they amused themselves
by remaining closely in the front yards
along Broadway, making garlands from
green leaves and flower beds.
But time lent boldness to the mis-
chievous creatures, and one of the party
must have dared another to vault the
fence in front Of certain handsome res
idence whose yard they had invaded, for
after moments parley a graceful girl
of probably seventeen summers sprang
from her companions and went over the
iron pickets with the agility of an aero
bat. This seemed to start the fun, for
from that time until they were driven
home by the approaching day they raced
up and down the streets, sidewalks and
yards, climbing fences, leaping over
curbstones and otherwise disporting
themselves.
A policeman who saw the girls romp-
ing in the middle of the street and
thought the circumstance unusual, ad-
dressed the party. "Oh, sir" responded
one of them, "we slipped out of our
houses while everybody was asleep. We
just wanted to have a jolly time, and
won't you please see that nobody inter-
feres with Us? We thought we might
see some excitement if we came out to-
N ut, but we are having a jolly time
The officer promised the girls that he
would watch after them to see that ''no
one interfered," and he kindly did so I'M
til they disappeared in their homes at
4:30 o'clock. Whether their little clark"
was discovered has not been learned
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