Show WOMEN IN ROLE OF STOWAWAYS Impelled by Wanderlust and Romance When the ships ship's captain ashle the stowaway the big ideal Idea he usually gets a story in reply Women as well as men are some SOlD times found as aa stowaways Ono One of the strangest and most romantic cases came to lIght when the windjammer the Cecille under Captain DeCloux won a 0 miles sailing salling match against the Beatrice from Australia to England A young Adelaide music teacher MIss Jeanne Day wanted to sail saU on the Cecilie She had her hair cut short like a boys boy's and bought one piece at a time a 0 corn com complete boys boy's outfit out t Then one evening she went for a swIm from a lonely beach and came back dressed as a aboy aboy boy But she was turned turne back when she trIed to board the windjammer jammer at the wharf So she walled waited till it sae towed out and anchored ready salt sail in the bay Then she hid her self under some nets In a fishing boat and lay low until night when she rolled out pretending to bl be drunk and sayIng thickly Cecilie The fishing boat was then out ont In Inthe Inthe the bay pot far from the sailing shIp and the fisherman completely deceived rowed her over She clImbed up a ships ship's ladder unobserved and hId In the hold until she knew the vessel was safely at sea and she couldn't hold on wIthout food and water any longer Then she walked up on deck declared herself and was sIgned on as cabin boy Throughout the voyage round the Horn she took her full share of the work Only last year another girl the daughter of a former president ot of ofSan San Salvador also disguised di herself as a boy and was stowed away first on board a small fishIng boat whIch took her from England to Franco and then on a ship bound for tor Lisbon f It was only onty a severe severo storm In the Bay ot of Biscay forced her to toI I leave her hIding place and so led to toi her dIscovery I |