Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — SHE TRAVELED AS A BOY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHE TRAVELED AS A BOY.

Tlie Long Trip of Fascination—Miss Muriel In a Wild Country. One of the most talked-of and beparagraphed personages of the day is Miss Menie Muriel Dowie, who obtained fame a year or so ago by crossing the Carpathian Mountains all alone, sleeping in the cottages of ■an ignorant and simple-minded but courteous peasantry, and now and again under the stars. Miss Dowse is a granddaughter of Robert Chambers, the publisher, and a goddaughter of Mr. James Payn. To betray the age of a fascinating young lady would be heartless, but Miss Menie Muriel was 23 when she took the grim scientists of the British Association by storm. It was somewhat of a novelty for a young lady of that age to stand'up before a large audience, and with the most winning manner, to tell of travel in obscure villages where few.

Europeans have ventured. And it was all done, too, in the most diffident style, with no assumption that there was anything peculiarly wonderful about it, except her custome, a picture of which is given above.

MISS DOWIE IN HER TOURIST COSTUME.