New-York tribune., 1922-02-15
Iruant Heiress
Becomes Maid.
Then Is Caught
Constance Hulsman,S Sixteen.
and Pretty, Must Return
to Parents at Pelham.
but Not to Her Piano
Rescued by a Bootblack
Recognized i'll Stamford as
She Thanks Him for Civ
ing Funds for Shelter
Special Dispatch to The rrib,un,


STAMFORD, Conn. Feb. 14-Jimmic,
the Italian bootblack, was only doing
what he thought any gentleman should
do for lady in distress when he dug
deep INTO his ragged trousers the other
day and gave pretty sixteen -year-old
Constance Husman. runaway from
her Pelham home, Pelham parents and
Pelham piano lessons, money to pay
for nights lodging until she could
get work AS servant girl. Jimmie
didn't see why Constance should
trouble herself to thank him.
But Constance did trouble herself
IN TACT. she came from Sound Beach.
w ore she had "hircd OUT to tell him
just how kind he'd been-and in doing
so she tumbled this afternoon into
arms of quict-looking man. who had
been nosng about asking funny qucs-
tons He turned Constance over to
ANXIOUS relatives and the anxious rela-
tlvcs communicated with other ANXIOUS
relatives at Pelham
Jimmie Is Saying Nothing
Jimmie, the bootback. d gentleman
for ali his ragged trousers and strjnrv
suspenders, was shining shoes to- nipht
and saying nothing. Jimmie hasn't
much use for detectives, anyhow.
For Constance, at least, i, was quite
an adventure. The young runaway is
OF wealthy parents. and at 1853 Wolfe
Lane, Pelham she lives in a great bio
house, the kind of house pcople
usually run to and not from. But
Constance was bored. There were those
desplsed piano lessons The vocal les
sons weren't so bad, but piano practice
wcarlcd her. Constance decided upon
a plan.
Last Thursday she borrowed So from
the grocer at Pelham and went to New
! ork with Helen. an older sister She
SAID nothing to Helen of the IS or her
purpose and when she got chance
she gave Helen the slip, went to Grand
Central Station and Look train for
Stamford She spent the first night
with an elderly couple in Glenbrook
The next day she met Jimmie She
cred when she saw Jimmie. and Jim
me, who had been a runaway once
himself. couldn'd stand that.
MY parents arc dead and | must
find work sohbed Constance. Easy
said the philosophical Jimmie No use
to cry about that lie was willing to
help both with worldly advice and the
Jlhglln9 contents of his trousers pocket
Becomes a Servant Girl
Constance. thus treasured and
financed, went to the Rockland Hotel
She Was too fearful and too thankful
even to thank her young bcncfactor at
the time
The next day Constance got work at
Sound Beach and liked it, She became
a real servant girl and gave her name
as Mary Thorne. her age as sixteen
and her home as no place in particu-
lar There were no piano lessons with
the new job, and Constance wondered
why she had never thought of some
such thing sooner.
Constance didn't forget about her
kind acquaintance of the railroad sta
ton. and to-day she got time off to
come to Stamford t. than him 1t was
then that she ran INTO Detective Hcf-
fernan, who thought she might just as
well come along with him. The de-
tcctivc assured her that her father and
mother wanted her home right away
and that if she just couldn't stand to
take the piano lessons she wouldn't
have TO- DR.. Frederick Hulsman, of
New York, brother of Constance. said
the same thing, and Constance said she
guessed shed have to go on back to
Pelham, but that she didn't think a
Sound Beach hired girl should leave a
Sound Beach lob without ciyiuC notice