Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1913 — Boy Dresses Up as Girl “So He Can Be Good” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boy Dresses Up as Girl “So He Can Be Good”

pHICAGO.— Nobody wants Roy Wise V baum, seven years old. Even the Jewish Home for the Friendless, East Ftfty-thlrd and Ellie avenue, went back on him the other day. The superintendent says Roy is incorrigible. Roy got to thinking over his past deeds and decided to reform. There was no use running away because everyone knew "that Roy Wisebaum.” "Gee, I wish I was a girl,” he told one of his playmates. “Maybe I wouldn’t be so bad, and maybe somebody would like me.” An hour later Roy was missing from the home. About the same time Sergeant Thomas Fitzgerald of the Hyde Park police station heard a small voice inquire:

"Please, can I get a bed for the night?” The sergeant glanced over his desk and saw a'llttle girl standing there with gingham dress and straw hat. "What is your ngme?" be asked. "I’m Tillie Spabn, and I’m lost," replied the girl. Sergeant Fitzgerald turned the girl over to the matron, Mrs. Minnie Muir, and notified all stations to try to locate her mother. Presently Mrs. Muir came downstairs. "That's a fine little girt you liavs up there,” said Fitzgerald. "Yes, she's a fine little girl—only she’s a boy, and a very bad one at that,” replied Mrs. Muir. "He’s Roy Wisebaum, and it’s the fourth time he’s been here. I just caught him pouring all my sugar out of the window." The home was notified, but the authorities had had enough of Roy. Two small boys brought him his clothes. Where Roy got the girl’s clothes is not known. Roy was turned over to a juvenils court officer. “It ain’t no use trying to be good,” he said.