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American.TRAVELED AS A MAW.Adventure, of a Woman Who Wanted to See tin* World as Men See It.Here it the story of a woman who wanted to see the world, and saw it. Her umbition wub not to see it through woman's eyes, but us men see it. There was only one way to do this, and that was to assume inci.'s clothes. Being; of masculine appea.nnce this otherwise insurmountable difficulty was surmountable. Nettie Dickey, of Stanton. Del., lately returned home after her sixth tour as a man satisfied. She has taken to dresses again, and this time, she says, for good.She began her adventures six years ago. She was a country girl, but ambitious. One night when she was mending her brother’s clothes the idea occurred to her. The next day she went to town and had her hair cut short, man fashion. That night she put on her brother’s suit, pocketed her savings and set out on her travels. She walked three miles to Newark, boarded an express to Baltimore, and there got a boat for Norfolk. In two weeks her $15 was gone, and she hired out to chop wood. But she did it so awkwardly tha^t her employer became suspicious. He consulted his wife and they accused their woodchopper of being u woman. Her nerve broke down, and she confessed.A telegrum was sent to her father, and he came after her and took her home.A year later the longing again laid hold of Nettie, and she was off again. She had saved quite a sum this time, and went to Chicago. She lived as a man among men, boarding at cheap lodging-houses and frequenting concert hails and saloona. Then her money gave out and she took to an empty box car, like many another tramp. Driven out of this, she slept in an empty track-house. Bouted from this, she wandered about until picked up nearly dead of starvation and exposure. At the hospital her sex was discovered and she confessed and was sent home.Two years afterward she was off again, as before, in men’s clothes. She 1 saw Philadelphia and Boston and New York thiB time. She came to grief in the Bowery, was taken to Bellevue hospital, and from there sent houie. Her fourth trip was to Pittsburgh, and this time experience had taught her that money had an end, and nhe got home on her last dollar without disuster.Her last two tours uls.o had success- ' ful terminations. She always left home without warning and in men’s elotlief. She spent three weeks ut nn Atlni.,; City hotel last yeur, her sex unsusptfvt- I ed, and this year she managed to *rtr New Orleans. She says now she h*r, ' seen enough of the world and iseontrM to remain home und be a woman for * the rest of her life.—-Chicago Times- ! Herald. i
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Greensburg Daily Review
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 08, 1899
Page 3
Full Page
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