Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-10-12

like n man. She avoided women as
much ns possible. Then she found
herself hopelessly stranded. For shelter
she wandered about three nights in
vain, The fourth she located IA box
car on tho Illinois Central tracks.
rive nights she rested her head and
courted sleep in this car A watch
man, discovering her, demanded her
to leave 1T under threats of arrest.
Next she found herself sleeping nights
in q small trackhouse where brakemen
lodged a fear that one OF the men
suspected her sex caused her to seek
some other place of shelter. From
place to place she wandered several
days without food. AT police stations
she found rest and shelter from rain On
many nights.
One morning in the latter part of
June she was picked UP in a condition
of semiconsciousness while lying in
hallway of an Indiana avenue club
house. The police surgeon directed her
removal to Cook County Hospital,
where, Of course, her masouerade
ended a month OF quiet and rest in
the hospital and Hettie was on her
way home to Delaware, her brothers.
clothes in the satchel that had shared
all her yicissitudes. Again the good
people of Stanton believed that Hettie
had seen enough of the world with
trousers; butagain they were mistaken.
Two years elapsed and Hettie began
her third excursion. She went to Phila-
delphia, Boston and New York. Six
weeks of sightseeing along Broadway
and IN the Bowery, with a limited in
come, landed her in Bellevue Hospital.
Another month and she was home. She
read much about the Homestead riot
and about the conditions of the steel
and coke workers of Western Pennsyl-
vania. To study their life she made
her fourth trip as man to Pittsburg,
| this time returning without the aid OF
a hospital.l
Last year she made a tour of all the
| prominent seaside resorts of the At
lantio coast. At Atlantic City she
4 spent three weeks, was regarded as {
man, treated as man and left as {
man. She visited all the cafes ant
beer gardens and amusement halls
seating herself beside men and putfint
on cigarettes with them without tn,
slightest fear or trepidation.
This year she toured the Southern
States and took in New Orleans, start
ing about the first of August. TIL,
feeling of personal insecurity that cam
to her when she discovered her purs
was empty in Chicago taught her ;
lesson. On each succeeding excursion
she was careful to take along enougl
money.
| With ring OF merriment in her ton
Hettie discussed her exploits and he
resolve to be a woman in the future.
II have seen all | want to see Of th
world as a man. she said. "Wome
have mistaken idea of mems privi
leges. A mans life is not bed G
roses. Women have just as many priv
leges as men. but not half the troubles
tried to get work in Chicago as
man, but found it impossible. Th
world is cold place to those VIII
have no money, and If man is as 81
as house and as strong rs Goliath
he is no use il he has no money.
think women nowadays have bette
chances than men. | discovered thf
men are easily pleased, and that's VIII
they spend their money foolishly. Thel
would be more happiness in the worl
il women would only do as | hay
done go out and study masculir
nature.
, Hettie is 20 years old, tall and I
, blonde complexion. She has religio,
!. temperament.