Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-01-30
GIRL WAS A PUZZLE
DRESSED IN BOYS CLOTHES. SHE
PUTS OUT STREET LAMPS.
Mysterious "Boy" Finally Located
After Many Times EIuding "EarIy
"BIrds" and Amateur Sieuths-Con
tributes to Support Big Family.

Chicago.-Amateur sleuths, anxious
len and wise night owls may all take
vacation, for the girl of mystery who
has been turning out street lamplights
In the early hours of the morning at
California avenue and West LaAs
street has been found.
Clad in clean pair Of overalls, her
brothers discarded coat and an old
soft hat. 14-year-old Mildred Nable ad-
m1tted the other night that she Ia the
girl who has mystified hundreds Of Gu
rlous people. She looks the part OF
a boy when dressed in HAle garb. But
she has pretty black odrls and they
dangle from beneath her hat. She
blames all her trouble, on the locks.
She Is pretty. petite boy, and, incl
dentally, an exception ally pretty girl.
When found in her home she declared
she was sorry she lad been found
out.
i wanted to foo. verybody all sum-
mer." she said. why did you have
to come and find rae? guess you
want to know all about myself now
that am discovered. Well. have
two brothers. and they light the street
lamps every night and l hate to see
them do all the work. SO decided to
help by extinguishing the lights in the
morning. Both my brothers are young
and they need sleep in the morning.
l did not want to turn out the lights
IN girls clothes. so got some of my
older brothers old garments. They
lifted me all right, and l continued to
wear them. OF course, had the clothes
been too big for me wouldn't have
worn them because how did know
who might see me?
I have big route to cover. There
are 100 lights to be turned out every
morning. have brother who is at
tending business college and wanted
to help earn money to enable him in
his education"
Did you have any thrilling expert
ences.' she was asked.
You bet l did," she replied, brush.
ing back her curls. Those curls an
noy me terribly. l guess I have them
cut. Well. the first real thrilling ex-
job. I was at California avenue and
Lake street when l saw a man with a
lantern. He paid no particular atten-
ton to me until he saw my curls. Then
he chased me-
Gee. how ran! Through alleys and
over back fences until l finally lost
him. But on the next morning he was
mn hA
good look at me, for he never said a
word. He might have at least apollo
gized for chasing me the way he
did.
This same man must have notified
all his friends that there was q girl
lamp extinguisher in Chicago, for on
the succeedings morning there was al
ways small crowd waiting to look
at me at California avenue and Lake
street One man asked me my name.
I refused to tell him. After that no
ticed several hundreds OF persons
W .ching me all along my route.
Il always tried to evade everybody
who was watching me. knew people
were talking about me, but was glad
they did not know my name. l will
now sleep mornings and get back some
Of the beauty sleep lost"
There are seven children in the
Magic family. and all contribute to the
support. Mrs. ]. N. Maggie, the girls
mother, said she tried in vain to make
her girl stop dressing in boys cloth
Ing.