Show SHE USED HER STOCKING cicca chicago girl girls looked in a store r find a novel way to get out three pretty young milliners e employed at state street were locked in the store for fc fi everal hours the other night and it was not until 3 2 the next in morning orning that they were released at 10 when manager left th the 0 place he told the watchman that every one bad left lett the tile building the watchman bus hits no key and he be could not set get out of the store himself even if it ho lie desired di an hour after mr had g gone one the three women who had been trim trini alti all vie evening upon trae t atti floor put on their wraps to go home they were terrified at finding the hall ball door bolted one of them pounded on the door but she could not make the watchman hear bear the n noise olse then the trio began tob to beat eat ft a tattoo at the same time calling to t the watchman jakel jakel come up upstairs stairs and let us out weare we are locked in but the watchman was sweeping away down on the first floor and ho he did not hear bear their frantic appeal after pounding on the door ten or fifteen minutes and receiving no response from jake the young women sat down and had a good cry big fat tears coursed down the checks cheeks of 0 a fluffy haired brunette who said her mother would bo be sitting up waiting for her from tears the young women changed to laughter and then they tried to arrest the watch mans attention with snatches snatches spat ches of song but he was deaf to music and industriously kept on chasing a broom over the first floor after they had sung home sweet home a dozen times without receiving any applause they stopped and befanto began to cry jakel jakel el jn in unison jakeways jake was full of business however and his thoughts were far from tho the fifth floor in despair the young women threw their combined weight fi the bg big door but it never budged ab out must we stay here all night jake jake wont you please come up stairs and let us out but jake never beard heard them it was now 13 12 and the imprisoned milliners tired out from their frantic efforts to break down the oaken doors began to shed tars again they gave up all hope of attracting the watch mans attention but even it if he be bad had heard beard them it would have hare done no good one of the young women more daring than her companions pan ions volunteered to climb down the fire tire escape in the rear of the store after reaching the ground slie she was to go to manager St umers residence and he would come to the store and release the other two the daring milliner threw up a window and clambered out on the fire escape e her companions wringing their hands a and d imploring her to be careful she got down to the fourth floor when her ber courage failed and she clambered up again like a real fireman for the next cour hour they cried and laughed and sang and pounded at the door at intervals but the watchman was too busy with the broom to bear them about 1 the fluffy haired brunette hit upon a happy plan to get communication muni cation with the outside world she was drying her eyes after having baying a good cry when ner her gaze tell fell on a tin pail the pall pail was to convey a message to the street below and some passer by would see it aiu but t they had no string to tie to tho the p pall so 1 it could be lowered one of the trio pu pulled I 1 le do off ft her shoo shoe and in a jiffy she began to unravel the yarn in her stocking Theother the other tyro tIvo looked on and laughed till they cried but she kept on unwinding the yarn from her stocking until she had enough to reach from the fifth floor to the street two notes were then written onedas one was addressed to manager jackson boulevard and the other to the police tho the notes were put into the pall pail and lowered slowly to tho the sidewalk As the moung women expected a passer by saw pall pail swinging in the air and thinking that somebody was rushing the growl er ho he waited until it got within ten feet of the ground there tho the pall pail remained the young woman had miscall miscalculated the distance and did not unravel quite en enough engh gh yam yarn from her stocking the pail dropped to the sidewalk and in it were found the notes A cabman at state and madison streets drove out to mr St umers bouse house and brought him down in a hurry he liberated ra t the young women and sent them to tb their belr homes omes chicago herald |