The evening world., 1911-03-06
GIRL WHO FL|RTED
IN TROUSERS GOES
HOME WITH PAPA
Philadelphia Miss Sorry to
Abandon Role in Which She
Charmed Washington.
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.
Cut Off Her Hair and Donned
Brothers Clothes-Father
Too Strict, She Says.
RAN AWAY FROM HOME.

WASHINGTON. March a-There Is
'r1ef among the maidens Of Washing
on. The handsome youth. whose dash
figure and rosy cheeks attracted so
UGH attention from the fair ones of
Q capital as he swrng aong Penn
ivania avenue every fair afternoon
u. these past ten days in his wager
II Of brown his roguish eyes setting
"ir hearts a pity -patting as he smiled
4" them from under the brim OF a fe-
IRA hat. worn at a rakish angle. Is a
nth no more.
lone IL the bro n suit, gone the rsk-
a. hat. To-day the youth is a. not
Try contrlte miss of sixteen, and Is on
lr way to Philadelphia with her irate
'ther.
Right bravely this Philadelphia miss.
no is Esther Watson of No. 1881 War
enton avenue, carried herself in her
male regalia right under the very noses
~ the police. the statesmen and the
lobbyists before she was discovered.
No one tumbled to the fact that the
handsome young man was a skylarking
maid going the harem skirt several times
better by donning the real things In
trousers.
But she couldn't fool the WISE"
clerk OF a downtown hotel. who eyed
her as she came through the swinging
doors last night. She felt the stern
eyes, although she couldn't see them
for the glare OF the headlight" which
IL still worn In the shirt-fronts OF
Washington hotel clerks. Her dainty
feet felt as big as canal boats. and
she tried to shrink into the folds OF her
sktmpy sack-coat.
Her Strut Fails to Convince.
Failing in this. she began to strut.
which she thought was the acme of
msnliness. but the hotel clerk got busy
on the telephone. and not very long
afterwards she was undergoing a
transformation under the watchful eye
Of the matron at the House OF De-
tention.
The girl ran away from home OF
March %. determined 10 earn her own
living. although her father. DIR. sylvester
Watson, who is connected with the Bell
Telephone Company, wanted her to con
tlnue az school. To make good her
flight she put ON her younger brothers
best Sunday suit, but In the dress suit
case she took with her when she
climbed out OF tie window and down the
porch, she carried a s~hirtwaist and skirt.
This the unrelenting nrSron compelled
her 10 don Then she relieved herself
OF her male disguise. In place OF the
fedora. a handkerchief covered her
locks, which had reached TO her waist
before she tried to change her sex. The
$50 she had with her when she left was
almost, gone.
Father Too Strict, She Says.
Father was too strict with me-" she
old the matron. He scolded me for
staying away from that hateful old
school, and ] just made up my mind
;ha | would 30 away from home"
Then she smiled into the matron's
yes and said:
~ always told the girls in our set
that ! could pass for a young fellow.
did Il all right. didn't l? II that hate
fIl old hotel clerk hadn't looked at me so
closely and made me so nervous, I would
have been doing IT yet. And now I must
20 home. ! wonder what father will do
10 me when we get back to Phila-
delphia?"
A look OF pain came into her eyes.
The girls mother seems TO be the chief
sufferer from the escapade. Ever since
Esther's disappearance and the failure
Of the Philadelphia police to get any
trace OF her, Notwithstanding the
sending out of a general alarm, Mrs.
Watson has been under a care OF a
physician.