Show = TWO VILLAGE GIRLS DON MALE ATTIRE AND START OUT TO SEE THE WORLD Pair of Roxbury Pa Maids Find Life as Men Is Not All Pleasure and Are Glad to Resume Re-sume Feathers and Ribbons PIttsburg Chifa Greece mid Mary Owen of Hoxbury Somerset county took n little Journey Into tho world recently They had a good time but they ore contented to go back to tho somnolent village of Hoxbury They uru both romantic and when they decided de-cided to make thu plungo to seek a fortune It was to be as men One night In tho Owens girls room they performed a tonsorial act for each oth 9r which relieved them of their flowIng flow-Ing tresses Then they borrowed a suit ol clothes each from the slumbering slumber-Ing brothers of MIMI Owens nnd hit tho pike for Conway They remained a week In Conway They had trrefully hoarded their money lor weeks to mako this plunge but money does not last forever Even In Conway U costs something to eat I Ms Ull o THEY WEHK PLACED IN TItE rim tsti > WAnD and pay room rent and near the end of tho week they saw bankruptcy looming up ahead They decided to apply ap-ply for a Job nnd went to the Conway ranching shops and wore told they could go to work In tho morning as Inboros at J12G per day more money than anybody In Hoxbury had ever earned except the postmaster and ho made ICOO a year by handling the mall and acting ns borough and county assessor as-sessor and register and sitting on a jury every onco In awhile nt Ebens burg the county sent But when informed that they would have to report for duty at five a m every day ant work until five p m tho tun all went out of it They decided de-cided to look for something else Their next appeal for employment was at a lumber mill and they were hired to drive n team at two dollars u day nine hours to constitute a day The first hour disqualified them Neither girl had ever handled lines before and they wore not husky enough to lift boards t and did not know how to balance z plank over tho rear wheel In unloading unload-ing Lack of experience won their their discharge with only n half days wages In their trousers pockets Conway Is not a very largo place It Is decidedly bigger than Hoxbury but It wan not up to what the girl had looked forward to in the great world outside their homo town Thai night they ciu vied Into a freight car headed toward Plttsburg and arrived hero early the next morning They bad ono dollar each when the reachfV this cUy nnd went over to the North sldo to mt up until fortune came their way The dollar lusted two days Then they wore broke and bun gry They wnndcred about the Nortt sldo nil day asking for work nt n number num-ber of places and being turned down It Is not much fun sleeping out these nights and they had to do something so that evening they made application at tho station for shelter They were placed In the tramp ward An hour or two later n special officer of-ficer happened to look In at them Ills suspicions were aroused at something some-thing and ho whispered softly and reported re-ported to the chief of police that ht thought they had better be placed In tho inutronu department than the tramps ward The chief nt onco called the young women before him nnd nftei some questioning they broke down and between sobs admitted their escap ndoWork Work was sent to Albert E Owens lather of tho Owens girl at Roxbury and ho arrived at Allegheny Ht brought with him raiment more suitable suit-able for tho young women who won being cared for by the matron When ho oaw them In the matrons ward dressed In mens clothing he loathed and acid Serves you both right Mebbo youll have more sense nftei this experience He took them home with him The Owens girl was wearing a new derby hat Her father had on trusty t-rusty brown Ho throw It aside and put on the new one his daughter had discarded for one with feathers and ribbons on It Why Mar said the Greece girl that hat looks bettor on your par than It does on you They were both glad to go home but they insist they had a good time nnd do not regret their llttlo plunge Into the great world which lies outside of Roxbury |