The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-29
INSISTS ON BEING A MAN.
A Titled Girl Brought Up as a Male
Declines to Change Her Sex.

Declines to Change Her Sex.
ViennG Letter in Neio York Tribune.
One of the most notable of the officers is
Gen. Count Ladislas Way Won Vaya, a
chamberlain of the emperor and a noble
man Of ancient lineage and vast landed
possessions, whose name has within the last
two years come somewhat frequently be-
fore the public IN connection with the
eccentricities of his daughter. The latter,
who is girl of about 81 years, has recently
been placed under curatel,n that is to say,
she has been deprived of the right of con
tracing any legal debts or obligations, and
her fortune has been placed in the hands of
trustees. Her history is "a strange one.
1t appears that during the first eight years
of Count Ways marriage no children were
born to him, a fact which almost drove him
to desperation, when he remembered thai in
default of issue his immense estates would
pass to the crown and his name become ex-
tinct In the ninth year, however, it
seemed as II his own prayers and those of
the countess we're about to be granted,
and when at length the countess
gave birth to a child he had so
thoroughly accustomed himself to
look for a boy that no one at the time
veutured to undeceive him and to tell HIM
baptized the child was won over to the
more or less pardonable deceit practiced on
the count by his wife and her attendants,
and, although the name given by the
sponsors was that of Sander, boys name,
the name entered on the parish register
was that of Sarolta, or Charlotte. Dressed
and educated like a boy, the little countess
bore the name of Sander till her 11tb
year, and was believed by all but the
mother, the priest and few confidential
servants to belong to the male sex. She
was taught to shoot and fish, and from the
age of 6 rode astrlde of her pony, dressed
ia hussar uniform. like little Centaur
inst about the time when the count was
beginning to consider the advisability of
sending his daughter-or, as he thought,
his son-to the nobles' academy at Pesth,
his wife gave birth to a second child, which
this time was real boy. The necessity for
keeping up the fraud with regard to the
sex of Sandor-or Sarolta--had
now disappeared, and steps
were taken to make everybody
acquainted with the true facts of the case.
It is not stated what steps were taken to
undeceive the count himself, but as ne
still lives happily with his charming and
popular wife, it may safely be taken for
granted that she did not experience much
difficulty in obtaining his forgiveness. The
altered condition Of things was the young
countess herself, who had be-
come too much accustomed to regard her
self as boy, and was SO strongly addicted
to all boyish sports and games that she
could not reconcile herself to the role of a
young lady. And instead of this feeling
passing away as she grew older, it became
stronger every year. She implored her
father, of course without success, to permit
ho, 20 q in ba HOnUaA Huo
sar regiment, of which he was the colonel
in-chief, or to allow her to visit the univer-
sity as a male student
AS soon however, as she had reached the
age of 81 and had become enancipated
from the immediate control of her parents
she took the bride between her teeth,
metaphorically speaking, and arrayed in
mems clothes, entered upon career Of wild
extravaganza and dissipation. Every where
she gave the name OF Count
Sander de Way and even fought
couple Of duels with men who had
insulted her by casting her sex in her
teeth. A number Of articles signed San
dor Way" appeared in one of the leading
Pesth newspapers, mostly on sporting
matters, on which she is an authority, and
for the purpose Of keeping up the illusion
of her manhood she even went SO far as to
spend an immense amount Of money on one
of the most charming divas of the Hun
garian stage, purchasing house
for her aud horses and carriages,
besides loading her with jewels.
Her latest escapads consists in her having
eloped and gone through marriage cere-
mony with the daughter of an army con-
tractor at Laybach, in Austria proper, for
the sole purpose of obtaining the young
girls large dowry, for Sander, or Sarolta,
has been in great straits for money since
she was placed ''under curatel" and there
by deprived of the use of her fortune. 1t
is reported that, exasperated beyond all
measure by his daughters mad freaks, the
old count is about to take steps for having
her placed under restraint in a lunatic
asylum.