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Show miles, but we don't attempt long walks as a usual thing, as we have no time limit." When the reporter questioned the pedestrians concerning the $25,000 wager the women resented the apparent appar-ent skepticism by a refusal to go into details as to who was to give them this money or why St was being wagered. wa-gered. They did not sta'e whether or not they were suffragettes nor tell who was tending the babies or what "hubbies" are doing while they are emulating Weston. "We are going to write a bxk when we got home," added Mrs. Jenkins Jen-kins to the tal? of her companion. "It will tell all about our trip and th" waer. We are both writers and painters and we are not making the trip merely for the ?25.0fiO the educational edu-cational feature of it appeals to us more than the money." The pedertrlans remained in Og-den Og-den over night and will resume thHr walk westward today by way of the Southern Pacific. 1Q WALKING 0BA WAGER Even women are not immune to the walking-on-a-wager mania now sweeping sweep-ing the country. Mrs. Frank T. S?e-ry S?e-ry and Mrs. Bessie S. Jenkins of Muskogee, Mus-kogee, Okla., who are walking from their Oklahoma home to San Francisco, Fran-cisco, lingered In Ogden for several hours yesterday afternoon and statel to a newspaper reporter that they are making llio trip on a wager of ?2 5.00.1. Bolh are young women of slender physique, accoutred in cowboy girl costumes, with thirty-eight calibre guns belted to iheir hiH. They have acquired a coat of tan that would make tho sea shore girl look like an albino. They wear tho regulation cowbov hat aud have their hair put tip without the use of rats. They walk with a decided masculine stride, as their short khaki skirts and leg- i gings do not impede their movements. "Wo are making the walk on a wager," said Mrs. Seery, when accosted ac-costed by the reporter ' If wo complete com-plete the walk from ' Muskogee to 'Frisco without reeking aid from our home wo get $25,000. We have our own time to make the trip, which covers cov-ers a distance of 2.500 miles. We havo now traveled 1.300 miles of tho route Iu 47 days, walking most of this distance over the Union Pacific lines. We expect to complete the Journey by September 15. We make our living along tho way by selling souvenir cards and have fo far had no trouble in disposing of a sufficient number of the cards lo cover all of our expenses. ex-penses. We have had no real startling start-ling adventures so far, but were sick for four days at Uintah. We were treated very kindly there and will always remember the town with a very frieudly feeling. The most wo iave ever walked la ouo day is 45 |
