Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-06
GIRL EXPERIENCES
GREAT HARDSH|PS
D0NS BOYS ATTIRE AND GOES
TO SEA
Miss Margaret Scott, Who Says She
Is Daughter of Los Angeles
Broker, Tells a Remark
able Story
able story
snecial 10 Tho IIcrnld.

PEELED to live in boys clothing for al
most two months and to toss in an open
boat on stormy sea with only q
strange fisherman as her companion
for days, is the price which Margaret
Scott, a 17-year-old Los Angeles siri
who landed in San Diego yesterday had
TO pay for a pleasure iaunt.
Miss Scott, who says she Is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Scott
of 1926 Pasadena avenue. Los Angeles,
left home November / in company
with Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. II. Bacon and
n party of friends bound for Anacapa
island for an outing.
Yesterday an officer found her at
Old Town, near Point Iona. clad in
boys attire He took her to the Help
ing Hand home. The Los Angeles di
rectory shows j. w. Scott. broker,
with offices in the Hellman building.
The story the girl tells of experiences
through which she has gone in the two
months would put Robinson Crusoe and
his man Friday in the list of has
beenS" and make any girl who has
never tried donning male attire to vow
to refrain forever.
Grows Most Impatient
Miss Scott announced that she was a
girl and demanded that she at once
be given the habilments of her sex.
II won't say word until / get dress
7 cannot wait another minute" she
said.
When she had been provided with
such feminine attire as the home COM
manded she heaved a happy sigh OF
relief and then she told her story.
N.tt, fel,.
said. Il was with Mr.. and Mrs. Bacon
and some other girls. We left in Il
launch and when we started out 1t ap-
peared as if it would be the most de-
lightful trip a girl ever took. Anacapa
island was our destination and we had
planned happy hours of scrambling on
the rocks and exploring the caves.
when we arrived at Anacapa we de-
termined to don boys clothes-Mrs.
Bacon suggested 1t, and the others
wanted to follow suit, so | agreed
Oh! but its good to get this dress on
she interrupted. and then there was
another happy sigh.
"At first the boys clothes did not
feel very comfortable" she continued.
Il felt as if | did not know myself
and wanted to hide. Then when wore
them little while and scrambled over
the rocks in them-when | saw how
to hold up-then l was glad | had put
them on.
Loses Her Dresses
1--WE climbed places where I never
could have gone if 1 had worn a dress.
| really envied the boys for little
while and thought l would always like
to wear such clothes.
"It all went we'll until we determined
to return to civilization. When L came
to put on my clothes again, they
could not be found. [ hunted high and
low, but there was no sight of them.
II had trouble with some of the MEM
bers of the party and so made up my
mind to leave them.
II landed in Santa Barbara wearing
the boys clothes, and when | saw peo-
pie I thought L would go crazy. I
thought every one who saw me would
say she's not girl 1 imagined every
one must guess my secret. l had al
most no money and nowhere to go.
In the pocket of my dress there was
eight dollars and / had four dollars in
my boys clothing.
II wanted to get away-I did not
much care where. There was a fisher
man whom [ talked to and he told me
he was going on a crawfishing trip to
San Diego. Ed Johnson was his name
and l asked him if he would take ne
with MIN. lie lnOuSnl was u DOy anu
he engaged me to help him.
Glad to Be a Girl Again
1--WE ran down to Coronado islands
and lay there several days fishing.
While there it began to blow and we
thought every minute we would be
swamped. 1t was a terrible experience
and | do not think | could have stood
1t much longer. Even the fisher began
to think our lives were in danger. |
had been hardened from rOughing it
on Anacapa island, or | never would
have been able to stand it. When the
storm was over my companion de-
cided to put into San Diego.
THE fisherman landed at La Playa
and the minute | caught sight of the
harbor I made up my mind that If !
could once get OH the shore / would
never go on the ocean again.
''I climbed up the Point Iona prom
ontory and started to walk to San
Diego. The people at Point Homestead,
headquarters of Mrs. Tingley, seemed
to think | was some terrible thing and
they watched until L got away from
their grounds.
"Oh, it is good to get a dress on
again--I cannot tell how good it SENS. !"
Miss Scott will return to her home in
Los Angeles today.
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