The herald., 1896-08-31
MATTE WILL NOT TALK
Miss Overman Maintains Her
Sphinx'Like Silence
SEWING FOR HER BOARD
And Cares Nothing for Anything Dr..
Brown Says
Her Ultimatum As divsn TO a Herald Re-
porter Over Her Own Signature.
A Queer Position
SEWING FOR HER BOARD

Miss Matte Overman still remains an
| inmate of the Florence Home. Miss
Overman persists in keeping her mouth
shut. and positively refuses to throw
any light on her confession, or to even
reply to the charge of DIR. Brown that
she was actuated by mercenary motives
in the matter.
Some of the painstaking representa-
tives of the press of Los Angeles have
felt obliged to sit upon the spiked posts
of the fence surrounding the Florence
Home and wait patiently for Miss Mat
tie Overman to reflect upon the folly
of adhering to that caBt-iron resolution
which debars her from the enjoyment
of the society of reporters, while their
contemporaries patroled the sidewalk
and formulated schemes that were ex-
ceedingly willy and we'll calculated to
remove finty and mountainous struc-
ture from Dan to Beersheba.
In consequence of these doings, the
doors of the Florence Home have been
doubly barred during the absecne of the
matron, who wields the scepter within
it's halls
A Herald reporter having taken up
a position on the steps was awaiting
that lady's return in properly patient
frame of mind, when the nurse in charge
came out and willingly entered into an
explanation of the workings of the in
stitution. She talked freely about the
inmates, if Miss Overman be excepted,
while the youngsters kept up a lively
chorus in the paror and hall.
a slender da rk -eypd oir in, mini
shirt-waist walked up the steps and
passed between the reporter and the
nurse.
Your baby is sick" the latter said,
and the dark-eyed, sad-looking girl who
accompanied the young mother looked
graver than ever as they hurried in.
This girl. was gowned in black. Her
own baby had folded it's waxen hands
and set out upon sudden journey short
ly after it's birth.
THAT girl is only fourteen whose
child is SICK" the nurse said. Her be-
trayer skipped. Her parents idolized
her. She has beautiful disposition.
No." she continued, its useless for these
girls to marry when their betrayers are
candidates for the penitentiary. They
are better off as they are"
The nurse explained that the girls
experienced no great difficulty in get
ting places and were frequently per-
mitted by kind-hearted employers to
keep their children with them. She evil
IDENTIFY had arrived at the conclusion
that DIR. Brown was one of those be-
nighted men who don't know enough
to get in when it rains,' but for some
reason she was unable even to guess at
the color of Miss Overmans hair, and
appeared to be ignorant of her dispo-
sition, upon all points but one. she
positively declared that Miss Matte
would flee the instant she caught sight
of reporter.
The matron at length returned and
opened the door. Miss Overman re-
manned invisible, and was emphatical-
ly referred to as a girl who had a mind
quite her own and one who knew when
to speak and also when to observe a
silence like the silence of the grave
itself. The reporters were simply vast
ing good time by such persistent and
unreasonable roostings on the posts en-
closing the Florence Home
On a subsequent day Miss Overman
was not at home. but she left a brief,
polite note to represent her. y
''Auntie" Hilbish expressed herself as
anxious that Miss OVerman shOlld n1eat