Show Paints Signs in the Clouds Chicago Girls Talent and Nerve Amaze Seattle Folk k Seattle Wash Standing on a pre cariouslooking board suspended along the top ot the Burko building over 100 I feet high Miss Louisa C Bell painted a sign Hundreds of persons looked upas the girl piled the brush apparently entirely Indifferent to her surroundings surround-ings and to the fact that a misstep would mean Instant death She was clad In white and inspired some of the crowd with awe some with fear and some with pity but she worked away with might and main and though two husky men were on the platform with her she appeared to do more work than the two combined I am from Chicago she said to a reporter who had the temerity to as cend to tho roof via tho elevator and look over tho dizzy heights to tho ground below and I am the only woman who has over attempted this dizzy painting I like It oh so much and would not give it up for the best position in Seattle In Chicago we do things Oh this Is nothing I only wish I you had a 40story building here so that I could demonstrate exactly what I am capable of She Invited the onlookers to tako a position on tho suspended platform and laughed merrily mer-rily when they Intimated that they were afraid to do so Miss Dell Is decidedly a woman even though she can do a mans work She refuses to tell her age but from other sources it was learned tha sho Is not more than 21 years old and does not belong to any female suffrage association |