Show YOUNG G IG AS A BOY DONS knickerbockers AND GOES SHOPPING AT CHICAGO HAD STAGE aspirations eleven year old truant causes ex cit ement by her mysterious di appearance ie detected by amateur sleuths chicago dorothy lastman the 11 earold ear old child mchose mysterious mst erious dis appearance from the home of her par ants mr and mrs A Las kimbark avenue aroused the society section of woodlawn and caused a flutter in the ade park police de lart ment was found under circum atances as dramatic as were ever pen ned by fiction writers or rort raed upon the stage attired n a natty knickerbocker suit of gray and wearing a scarlet flannel sweater and a gray cap pushed ack jauntily upon her shorn locks the lit tie blonde runaway walked airily into the restaurant on state street at 30 clock and ordered dinner with all the nonchalance of a fin de siccle youth sitting at an ad joining table to the one to which the was shown a two men who had been tracing her tor hours they were harrlson van and P D kenyon friends of the father of the girl and of her uncle john drake who had been making frantic efforts to discover a trace of the truant since shortly after the hour that she had dropped out of sight kenyon and van the latter knowing little dorothty eastman by turned amateur detective to heir friend drake and they beat 1 ahe police but so completely S ged was the appearance of the il by her adoption of male garb and the cutting of her hair that mr van was not altogether certain for halt an hour as he watched her at her meal that she was in tact dor othy As the boy arose from the table and approached the cashier s desk with a check presented by the waiter mr van stepped forward and blocked the door leading to the street the lad with a smile and a pleasant remark to the young worn an at the cashier s desk paid the sum demanded bd and then started to leave the restaurant then detective van reached down and taking the child in his arms said dorothy wait a moment uncle john will u be here ith a shriek chich startled stait led the dimeis who thronged the cafe the child struggled to diee herself bryin out let me go release me at once I 1 dont know ou ou are doroth bastman and I 1 am bour friend ass ired mr van as re gentle the frantic eirl I 1 im not eastman apt lpt roe go oh let me go wailed the lit tie girl as she tried vainly to reach the dior dorothy I 1 know you and I 1 want you to wait until your uncle john urako gets here and he will take you home your little sister has been crying for you all day said mr van at the mention ot her little sis ter the child ceased to struggle her head sank upon the shoulder of her captor and she gave wa to historical weeping si gathered about her and after awhile she be came calm telephonic com munica alon was had with her relatives and while awaiting he arrival of the girl s uncle efforts were made to get the youthful truant and masquerader to tell something about her expert ence since she left home I 1 first cut my hair shorter asselt it was not long to begin with vi edi edday afternoon in a room of the home of a girl friend in wood lawn I 1 do not know the number just now said the girl to day I 1 got a barber to slick it up a little better I 1 bought the knickerbockers the sweater and the cap in a state street department store I 1 slept at the home she had a barber cut her hair boy style of my girl friend in woodlawn wedi I 1 back up town in the morning I 1 had about ten dol lars when I 1 left home it was my christmas money and I 1 wanted to come up to n and see what was displayed in the w endows and I 1 want ed to buy things for the folks I 1 had a good time I 1 thought it t put on boys clothes nobody would know me and was that the only reason you left h me dorothy some one in the part asked the e es of the little girl filled with tears and she shaded her face with her hands refusing to answer I 1 understand that dorothy Is ot a most romantic matuie and a great reader of fiction feair mr kenon one of the amateur sleuths it Is said that the chil 1 has a penchant for act ing and has expressed the intention ol 01 going upon the stage relatives aa that she his been in the habit of amusing herself by donning her so ther s clothes and disguising herself for the purpose of surprising her lit tie friends |