Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-16
GIRLS ARRIVE HERE
FROM 3-YEAR JAUNT
Travelled 10000 Miles in
FIivver-Started Long
Trip With $65.

Three years ago 4 second hand INV
yer containing two cultured young
women in knickers. with Sos between
them, rolled out of staid old Boston
and headed due west. There's not
much news in that, of course. and
the city Of learning did not so much
as arch its eyebrows over their going.
This story must have certain
news basis, however, and in pursu-
ance thereof il should not be amiss
here to state that the same young
women, augmented with third girl
companion who made a late start,
ratified into Washington the other day
In "A wheezy prototype of the original
lizzie, en- route back to Boston after
a 20.000-mile jaunt around these
United States
And when they ride triumphantly
into their home city several weeks
hence they will have completed a
sightseeing tour that took them as
far as Hawaii. effected on that initial
sos worth of capital and a world of
lust honest to goodness twentieth cen
fury feminine nerve
These VivaciOus, self-reliant Ameri-
can girls are Lee Capen, Olive p.
Gately and Alice {. Macfarlane.
Calls Up Old Friend.
Lee used to work in the old War
Risk Insurance Bureau. and the first
thing she did when she and her bud
dies pulled into the tourist camp in
Potomac Park was TO call up an old
acquaintance. Mrs. Paul Moncure OF
this CITY. Mrs. Moncure is. helping
entertain the trio during their brief
stop-over here. The party's treasury
was very nearly depleted when their
trusty FLYER. covered with dust ana
souvenirs. came to a stop in the local
camp.
Working their way through similar
vexing situations has been their hobby
for the past three years, as matter
Of fact Miss Gately. by profession.
is an lad" writer and her pals are
proficient at secretarial duties, but not
always were they able to find the type
of employment for which they had
been trained. SO il came to pass that
the trio have become expert. also, In
divers other trades, from apple pick
ing after the Spokane school of
thought. to cleaning carbon and grind
ing valves. In the latter instance ii
was a question either of hiring a me
chanic to do it and then telling him
they had no money to pay him. or do
ing the job themselves. Being con-
ScientiouS young women. they chose
the latter course, and Alexander the
Great" as they have dubbed their
faithful machine, rambled right along
after the operation.
Saw Everything i'm Sight.
I'VE did not start this trip on a bet.
nor as an advertising proposition for
somebody's tires or gasoline. We sim
ply became enraptured over the idea
Of seeing America first and decided
10 go the limit" Miss Capen pointed
out on her arrival here. We have
gone the limit. all right. l don't be-
lieve there is a sight worth seeing
from Mount Rainier to the Grand Can
Won. from deserts to redwood forests,
from the Prince of Wales to the In
dams. that we haven't investigated
thoroughly during our travels.
IT want to say this, right here. in
refutation Of popular belief regard
ing unescorted girls: During our whole
three years on the lonely roads and
trails of the North. West and South
we never were insulted by a single
man. On the contrary we met with
nothing but gentlemanly courtesy. We
had to use our revolver but once and
that was when a rattlesnake scared
us half to death in California. Alice
shut her eyes and blaZed away and