The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-22

PrsfTuTAR phase OF human
H1 nature is manifested in Nellie
A\ Pickerell. alias Harry Living
N\ ston. whose portrait is printed
~ Ia above, 17-year-old girl,
who lives with her mother.
sistsr and brother over a stable on
the north side Of town The girl
n Juvenile exponent Of l)r. Mary
Walker, but she possesses many idiosyn-
srasies not affected by her Washington,
d. G.. model. Unlike Mary, who wears
the trousers because they are more con-
venient than skirts IN ambuiating about
attending TO her patients, Nellie dons the
bifurcated garment because she n con-
WINGED that mature ran off on a tangent
when she was born. and that she was in
tended TO be n boy. Since nature so un-
Justly deserted her at the crucical moment.
she has determined never to close the
breach. but to he man as nearly as pos
sible.
Born mt Seymour, Ind, but taken by her
parents at an earIy age to South Bend
where they made their home on a ranch.
this masculine young woman easily ac-
cepted the conditions Of her environment
by assisting her father In his agricultural
pursuits and the caring OF the cattle In
order to save the expense OF an extra hired
man. She donned the regulation cow
boys attire, from sombrero to spurs.
straddIed the risky broncho the same as
her male prototypes and participated in
the roundup with all the vim and enthu-
s.asm of veteran. So adept did she be-
come as an equestrienne that ultimately
she was invariably selected In preference
70 her brother ana the hired men whenever
the exigcncy OF quick trip to town oc-
Cured. No restraint was placed upon
her actions by her parents: she was allow
ed to DO exactly as she pleased. Indeed,
AAtr s.I iwx.A
Tor her wild abandon, but her fierce deter
mination and absolute Independence we're
uncomfortable Her companions were al
ways the opposite sex, her sister was al
most a stranger.
A Tomboy Frons Imfamcy.
These early traits perhaps hereditary.
but largely the result OF early impressions.
have remained with her until today, ripen-
ing and developing themselves In proper
ton az she grows older
No one can understand this anomalous
girl; not even her parents II is asserted
by her mother that abe has been a tom
boy from infancy. which IL suggestive OF
dormant hcredtty. II ~ also stated that
she Ia as expert with tho rife as abe IL on
horseback. Nellie Is authority herself for
the Ntatement that with a 22-calfber rife
she can break three bottles out OF i've
when thrown In the air one after another
IN rapid succession. at a distance of twen-
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since her advent In Seattle this female
enigma has not Ina the least deroRated
from her eccentric ways. In the place OF
the oroncho she rides a male bycycle In
the same way that she rode the ctddy
equine on her fathers ranch. The rifle
has been superseded by a revolver and
The uncouth but picturesque habiilments of
the cow puncher have been relegated To
l4fRtr f.asxx n
taiior-made suit, She always dresses I'm
the height of fashion, wears the latest
style derby hat, aiternates between a sack
and cutaway suit and Is scrupulously
careful 10 have pronounced crease In her
trousers In emulation OF tho male bjp..l
She seldom associates with girls; in fact
from her earliest childhood she has ever
shown n marked prediction for the male
sex. Her male friendships are eonsid-
cred purely platonic, since her constant
association With the stcruer sex has rem
dered her Indifferent 10 those finer auaN-
ties OF character and disposition gencrally
looked for IN a woman. She seems 20 III
tnsensible fo refined deilcaey. Her com
pAnions treat her as a boy, and she insists
upon being treated "a one Even her rtrl
acquaintance rofer 10 her as "hs ana
she wakes wroth when addressed bv "A
feminine sppeliation
A Checkered sotourn.
Nellie came 10 Seattle when she, was
IL Her soioutn here has been checkercd.
stormy and fuii or vlcIssitude llor on
p~fienees during the past four years have
been as vagiegAted as the eoiorx OF the
rainbow bat she proceeds on the even
terror OF her way as though nothing ever
happeaed her, Al "a she became a mother
Ne emo has ever been able Go ascertain
the name OF the father, not even her
mother. she has always preserved a dumb
reticsnee when impertunca to disclose his