The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-13
BY THE MISSING MISS.

/ never saw so many people who
were after $50 before in my life. Good
ness, how they did eye me yesterday
and sone of them actually accused INC
of being the Missing Miss, but 1t was
apparent that they had not studied the
rules well.
The little, energetic woman with a
long quill in a tan straw alpine hat
n a blue and white waist with equi-
distant stripes, will be a little put out
today when she reads that she came
within two feet of getting the prize.
l saw a young woman wearing the
same kind Of a telltale hat / was wear
Ing looking in Hahne's window, and I
stood alongside Of her, just for FUR
The little woman with the alpine had
Il excitedly up to my neighbor and
~propounded the right words to her and
exhibited the right paper, but she was
only a matter of w feet in distance
from being right. My ~neighbor with
the similar hat turned to me and said,
petulantly: '"That's the tenth or twelfth
time I have been accused of being that
Missing Miss" / laughed and said she
should change her hat, but wen that
was not enough to awaken her mind
to an identification of my hat.
The curb was lined with men
women n children, all carrying in
their hands copies of THE EVENING
STAR. ] went right down the line and
back again.
Boy Gets Confused.
1 was walking out Broad street and
was just passing the gas office when a
boy, IL or Is years old, with a blue
striped shirt waist and knee trousers
and a light gray cap ran up to me
and started to identify me-, but he be-
came so hopelessly confused over the
words that he should rave ~propounded
that 1 lost patience and merely looked
down upon him with mock 'scorn and
passed away.
But in Bridge street they were look
ing for me with a vengeance. I was
going owe to Harrison to see a friend.
AS 1 went down the hill toward the
bridge 1 could see the rails of that
lined with men, women and
children and I knew they were after
me because each one of them held a
copy Of THE EVENING STAR con-
%spicuously in their hand. There vas no
f%inching. There was but to do and die.
L walked ON down boldly, fully expect
ing to be caught. I assumed q very
naughty air. l threw my head back,
frowned a high-born frown and as
sumed to be much more dignified than
I am afraid 1 really am.
I guess that look of mine did the
work. I had reached nearly the middle
of the span, with the crowds agape,
when q man wearing q check suit of
London smoke and a ~well-tanned straw
hat, with a soft brim. came running
after me from across the roadway of
the bridge. He was nearly upon me when
a man companion of his or the other
rail shouted to him: NIX, Petite; NIX;
I know her" He stopped and went
back, rather sheepishly, while the
crowd laughed. I don't know what
Mig means, but 1t probably saved me
for another day.
Talks to Conductor.
/ walked on up Harrison avenue to
Fourth street, where i asked Street Car
Conductor No. 1872 IL there was a car
there / could get for Bloomfield. He
told me to 60 back to Broad street,
Newark, and get a car there, I stood
on the corner for several minutes, until
a lot of boys came around me and !
could hear them say to each other, jok-
ing, of course: She's the Missing
Miss" Their gossip, the truth of which
they little realized, was attracting
grown-ups, who might be wiser. so I
hoped on a car and came back to New
ark, alighting in Broad street and then
walked south. There L found the Same
crowd of searchers, still trying to find
me and continuing to identify the
wrong women. None of the women /
saw wrongly identified tool offense.
They always smiled. said no and
walked on. I think I'll try that plan in
the future. although / may leave out
the negative answer, as 1 do not like
an untruth in the smallest detail of
anything. But I'll smile anyway. I
expect some real excitement at the
Market street station OF the Pennsyl-
vania Saturday morning, In the Hill
section later in the day. All day Mon
day the amateur detectives should
watch for the money. orders I am going
to "lose'' in the Oranges and down.
town In Newark.
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