Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-09
GIRL, DRESSED AS
 BOY, WANDERS THRU
 TWENTY STATES
che,s But IA Years of Age But Experienced?
 Rather.

Wichita. Kan, Dec. S.-Her par on+s said she should not wear boys olothing. Her brothers and sis tors thought it simply terrible They chided her day and night And so. when she was 14 years old 1onice Green of Nevada, Mo-, now on1v 20. ran away from home, and has been for years given up as lost Her relatives have mourned her her. as dead. She was far from dead. however, when a Wichita ura man she calls a "bull,' tried to arrest her, and when she told her surprising story to the local po- lice matron.
 Janice is really beautiful, in he1 overalls and sweater, as she sits in chair and kicks her heels around boyish fashion. But she is is a real, delightful girl, for al her boyish ways.
 Experienced? She says she had been in 26 states. Educated? She hasn't had much real schooling but she declares she has done prac- practically every kind of work there is to. do, and says she has learned "oodles and oodles."
 Neither Childish Nor Cynical.
 Is she childish? She is not. Sine has more of the woman in ne1 than many society girl of 24 She knows lots of things about many different subjects-amone them, slang; profanity, however is not one of them. She is not cynical.
 There is about her something l like a little school girl of 8 or Q some of the wildness, ignorance of that age, alotg with much of the confidence. She hasn't had her little girlhood."
 When Janice left her home in the middle of one night, she took her boyish attire with. her. She pjosed as boy and hired out t1 farmers. She admits that the work was not easy. It consisted of get ting up at four, usually, milking cows, feeding stock, ploying, pitch ing hay, shocking wheat, huskine corn, and the like. The years passed. She went to the cities Occasionally a policeman would suspect her identity, but it was easy to fool most of them.
 Janice has four sweetnearts-- four girl sweethearts. Perhaps it's not astonishing, for Janice makes a very attractive young man. Bubbling youth prompte1 love-making, and to succeed sne had to assume the role of wooer She has sweethearts in four diff ferent states, one in Eastern Kan ]. sas and one in Missouri.
 t,A Liked Tramp's Life. E The fascination of a tramp's life appealed to the girl. She worked at anything obtainable, and, after accomplishing sufficient funds made her way to new fields of en deavor and romance, for it was al romance to her. Lack of funds sometimes required that she "beat Ger way"
 Her sex had never been discov cred, she declared at the city jai ihere. She did not deny that sah' had spent many an evening ar66nt Jungle campfires with hoboes, bu she managed to keep reasonabl, dirty so they always believed he youth who had taken to th' open road.
 She is being held for investiga ton by officers at police kead quarters, who say they wish s. w Ackefoose, chief of police, to pas on the case.
 Janice is frank, if she is any thing. She tells the same storI to everyone, not elaborating on it A list of the various boys name under which she has travelled an' which have been on the payroll of many middle west industries, i a, long one. For her last name she used several, usually the nor common ones.
 She Does Hate Dresses.
 Il wrote letter to my girl i eastern Kansas from Eldoradc telling her I was leaving an would see her later, which mean
 LoI nave QeclQeQ to g1V up my overalls and sweater. But zee! How l hate dresses" con 1lded Janice as she pulled pae het of clgaret papers and ba ol tobacco from her hip pocke and proceeded to Troll her own" kys When I arrived at Wichita a N2 o'clock in the morning, a ma apDrOached ma ,+ 4Lo 4t: - asked me where I was going an all azout me. I looked into hi lace, gradually casting my eve downward until could see hi 1eet When I saw his shoes, K knew he was copper, and I hat
 Strange men looked at me $ many times on the street that nes gay that l decided I would repo, Co the police matron and .skod |