The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-04
College Girl, Lioing in Box Car,
Has Bad Attack of Wanderlust

In . scrubby little box car in the
Gambrinus freight yards Of the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie Railroad, three
miles southwest Of Canton, O., lives
Miss Lucille Waltz. "weighmistress"
and disciple OF the open road
She affixed the former after her
name last August. 1t won't remain
there long. for she is feeling again the
call Of vagabondage. The latter title
was born with her, Il gYess because
there are ministers and newspaper
men in my ancestry. and they move
around a lott"
Miss Waltz lives in the box car
with the family of an official Of the
yards. The yard offices" are housed
in two box cars on side switch;
Miss Waltz's home is half mile down
the track.
How would you like to live in a
box car. with the railroad yards for
your front door, and the open fields
and woods for your back yard? I
have found it interesting and comfort
able" Miss Waltz said.
Miss Waltz is pretty, we'll educated
and in her twenties. Due to the wan
derlust she has been:
College student, reporter on a small
town paper, telephone operator at a
city exchange, waitress a. summer
resort, travelling companion to a wo-
teacher.
Ready to Move.
Six or eight months in one place,
and she is ready to move on. I've
stayed here longer than usual" she
said, "but I suppose I'll be moving
soon.
"Of course my family think it's
awful that am a regular tramp, but
why should one not see things while
earning living?"
Penville Ind. is Miss Waltz's home
town After graduating from high
school. she worked on the only paper
there. and was everything from the
''printer's devil to assistant editor"
The next fall she entered the In
diana state university a, a freshman.
Going to Indianapolis with college
chum at the end of her first year, she
took a position in the office Of a man
ufacturing concern.
MY chum had to take a state ex-
animation in order to get a license
to teach in Indiana, and because she
did not want to 60 alone, / went with
her. Rather than idle the time away,
I too took the examination. 1t hap
pened that I passed and she did not
I had never thought of teaching, but
now that had a license, the idea
seemed worth trying, so that winter
/ taught at Mugadore, Ind.
Likes Teaching.
There was a certain appeal about
teaching. and at the end of the term.
| went to the state normal school at
Muncie. 90 When the superintendent OF
the Akron school district came. to
Muncie in search of teachers, /
signed up with him to teach at Ira.
near Akron l always mad wanted to
come to Ohio.
"At Ira I met the most interesting
person I ever had the privilege of
knowing. She had been a professor
of languages at one of the larger
American colleges, and had travelled
over most of Europe. She had re-
tired and lived with her sister. a
quaint person who might have
stepped out Of Dickens novel They
had taken up violet raising
Twice a year, in the spring and
fall, Miss Waltz returns home. Last
year she spent six weeks there. owing
10 the illness of her mother, the long
est time she had spent at home since
entering college.
is Telephone Girl.
Miss Waltz returned to Akron, just
at the time several of the plants were
curtailing their forces. She secured