The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-26
IF MAMMA SAYS YES.
Madge and May Will Tramp to
San Francisco.
They Are Typewriters and Would
Like Backer.
But Mrs. Nation Says Pshaw
What Nonsense"

Madge Nation AID May Seaton are
| two little typewriter girls.
| They are cousins and bosom friends
| Each one Is fifteen years old. and each
one contributes to the support of a wild
owed mother.
Madge lives at l3l Henry street, and Is
| employed in lawyers Office at l16 Mas
| sau street in the room adjoining Law
yer Mullen's Office where another type
writer girl attracted the attention OF
| the whole community not long ago by
being shot to death in a very suspicious
manner.
May lives in East New York and Just
| now is out of employment
| These girls have decided to walk to
San Francisco and only need two things
TO start with The two things ncedful
are a financial hacker and mamma S
consent. A glance at the situation is
convincing that they will succeed in Sc
curing the first prerequisite long before
| they gain the latter
Their plan originated in this manner:
May spent the last week visiting her
cousin Madge. She returned this morn
| ing. Each has a consuming ambition to
make more money for her mother Dur
|
| of projects 20 that end oftentimes sit
ting up in bed to do so when the rest OF
the household was asleep.
They had talked over all sorts Of
schemes without discovering anything
across the statement in newspaper
that a man named Fred Miller had
walked from Washington to San Fran
| cisco and earned $4,000 thereby. Just
what for and by whom Miller was re-
wardcd for his feat Is not clear to
| them, but that does not matter, Both
| girls jumped up at once.
That's the ticket cried May.
| AT last" echoed Madge.
1t was quite evident that If one un-
interesting man could make $4,000 by
walking to San Francisco. the perform
ance ought to be worth much more to
They, are both pedestrians. They had
| Fourteenth street in is minutes, and had
made the trip afoot out to Mays house.
in Fast New York. in it'll" more than
an hour
They looked up San Francisco, and
were a little startled to discover that
1t is just about as far to the west az
Liverpool is TO the east of New York.
But they figured it out that striking a
clip OF thirty-five miles a day they
could get there in six months, and SO
they publicly announced that they were
going.
They, fully measured the perIs that
might beset the path of two pretty girls
on a long tramp like that but they re-
moved all dangers at a sweep by decid-
| that they had never worn boys clothing
and We're not sure that thus arrayed they
could make the, free pace they do in
| their own short. loose skirts.
| They wrote a large batch Of letters to
persons they fancied might be inter
ested in their enterprise. and then sol
| EMMY notified Mamma Nation. Now.
mamma is broad and round and good
natured and proud of her two smart
girls, her daughter and niece, but as soon
as her mind wore around il and took IN the
and tore up the letters. The girls argued,
but Mrs. Nation was set in her hostile
views, and somehow, convenient to the
occasion May went home this morning,
Those Kids exclaimed Mrs. Nation
when The Evening N WGrld, reporter ter
told ner tha1 ne t naI es'ed Tb rat
sorps of crazy notions in their heads
but you bet you ] scare this notion out
mighty o gnek te orf adt see that hers
poor old mother needed her around for
the next five or SIX years. and after
that she could go make fool OF her
self Walk to San Francisco
Mrs. Nation shook all over as she
laughed and winked at the reporter.
You know. what | said to Madge this
Il II said aid to her: Walk to San Francisco,
is It? Well you walk just as far as the
Office and back again, and be lively
about it-sneak" and she snuck."
A glimpse long enough for sketch
was hal of Miss Madge at her Office.
She is pretty, dark complexloned.
stout and muscular girl, and is thoroughly
we are going" she said decidedly,
.Yf we can get a hacker. Then, after
La seconds reflection. she added, with
not quite so much decision. and
mammals consent
II is any odds that is asked that the
lgirls. II they keep their word as 10 con-
diti1ns will never get further from
mamma than a distance coverable by the
| time between meals.