Show ENGLISH WOMAN MASQUERADES AS MAN NEW YORK Au Aug 24 Flora Flora Lang Lane Langden den a En English girl of 20 summers has been masquerading gr as aa a aman aman aman man here for several months working successively as an nn amateur detective a grocer boy hoy and and a waiter in in a Broadway restaurant With her hair hur close cropped close cropped and still sti dressed iu in in mans man's mn's clothing she sho is is now under the tho care of a police matr n nat at her own request She will wi don woman's womans wom worn ans an's attire toda today and will wi be sent back to her home homo in n England by bj the tho next steamer In Miss Iss Langden's capacity as an anama ama amateur detective she spent considerable ble time in the Italian and Chinese quarters and came cale near getting a reward for the tho finding of a child Three years ago she told a New York magistrate she aro left a comfortable homo home in London and took a steamer to Boa Boa- ton then coming directly direct to New York Her mone money went rent quickly and before sho she realized it she sho was p penniless She was too proud to write homo horno for aid and got ot a place as a waitress Her experience ex cx- as a waitress W wa was not pleasing pleasing pleas pleas- ing in ing nor profitable profit and she decided to todis dis disguise herself as ns a man She went to a 8 little store on the tho cast east side and bought a complete outfit from shoes shoe to straw stra lint hat cut her own orn hair and started out out- out outto to look Jook for a job jb as ns a man The disco er discovery of her masquerade came camo about through the assignment of ofa a n headquarters detective e to a n minor larceny case in nn an n uptown boarding house While searching for information there ho met mot Miss lIss Jan Langden ren who was in inman's inmans inmans inman's mans man's clothing clothing and aOI wt was introduced as asa asa a private detect detective e Tho The headquarters man suspected tho the youths youth's sex X from his big appearance and spoke hi his Th Thereupon the youth routh acknowledged acknowledged cd edged ed that ho was right rith and asked his advice adice ns as 1 to how ho to change back to female clothes and avoid comment The Tho headquarters headquarter man advised ad her to consult a magistrate |