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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. Clara Greece and Mnry Owens, of Uoxbury, Somerset county, took p llttlo Journey Into tho world recently. They hnd a good tlmo, but they ore contented to go back to tho somnolent village of Hoxbury. They aro both romantic, and when they decided de-cided to make tho plunge to Keek' n fortune, It was to bo as men. Ono night, In tho Owens girl's room, they porfoi rned a tonsorlal act for each other oth-er which relieved them of their flowing flow-ing tresses. Then they borrowed a suit ol clothes each from the slumbering slumber-ing brothers ot Miss Owens, and hit tho pike for Conway. Thoy remained a week In Conway. They had carefully hoarded their money lor weeks to make this plunge, but r.ionoy docs not last forever. Kven In Couway It costs something to eat THEY W ' THIS TRAMP WAltD, and pay room rent, nnd near tho end of tho week they saw bankruptcy loomlug up ahead. They decided to apply ap-ply for a Job, and went to tho Conway machine shops and wero told they could go to work in tho morning as laboro.-s at 1.25 per day, more money than pnyboly In Uoxbury had ovor earned excout tho postmaster, and ho mado JG00 a year by handling tho mall and acting as borough and county assessor as-sessor and register and sitting on a jury every onco In awhile at Ebons-burg, Ebons-burg, 'tho county sent. But when informed that thoy would havo to report for duty at five a. in. every day anc. work until flvo p. m., tho tun all went out of It. Thoy de-ildod de-ildod to look for something olso. Tholr noxt appeal lor employment was at a lumbor mill, and they were hired to drlvo a team at two dollars a day, nine. hour3 to constitute a day. Tho llrst hour disqualified them. Neither girl had ever handled lines before, and thoy were not husky enough to lift boards, nnd did not know how to balance c plank oor tho rear wheel In unloading. unload-ing. Lack of experience won then, their discharge with only n half days wngm In their trousers pockets. Conway Is not a very largo placo It Is decidedly bigger than Hoxbury but It was not up to what the glrty had looked forward to In tho groaj world outside their homo town. Thai night they oawled Into a freight car headed toward Pittsburg, and arrlvet hero early tho next morning. They had ono dollnr each when the roach?, this city, and wont over to th North sldo to put up until fortuut camo tholr way. Tho dollar lasted two days. Then they woro broke nnd bun gry. Thoy wandered nbout tho Nortt sldo nil day, asking for work nt a number num-ber of places and being turned down It Is not much fun sleeping out these nlghU, and thoy had to do something, so that evening they mado application at tho station for shelter. They wore placed In tho tramp ward. An hour or two later a special officer of-ficer happened to look In at them Ills suspicions woro aroused at bomo-thing, bomo-thing, nnd he whispered softly and reported re-ported to tho chief of police that lit thought thoy had hotter bo placed Id tho mutronY department than tin tramp's ward. Tho chief at onco called tho youug women beforo him, nnd after some questioning they broke down ana between sobs admitted their escap-ado. escap-ado. Work was sent to Albert E. Owens, Tather of the Owens girl, nt Hoxbury and ho arrived at Allegheny. He brought with him raiment moro suitable suit-able for tho young women, who won being cared for by tho matron. Wheu ho saw them In tho matron's ward dre.ss.sd In men's clothing, ho laughed and bCld: "Serves you both right Mebbo you'll havo moro senso aftci this experience!" He took them homo with him. Tho Owens girl was wearing a ne derby hat. Her father had on rusty brown. Ho threw it aside and put on the new ono his daughter hac discarded for ono with feathers and ribbons on It. "Why, Mary," said tho arceco girl "that hat looks hotter on your pai than It does on you," Thoy woro both glad to go home, but they Insist the hnd a good tlmo and do not regroi tholr llttlo plungo Into tho great world which lies oulsldo of Itoxbury. |