The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-12-12
REARED AS A BOY.
Singular Career Of the Daughter Of
an Austrian Count.
Startling Eccentrioities Of . Girl Who OBJ
jects 60 Being . Woman-Ber Ex-
travaganos and Dissipation the
Talk of Two Kingdoms.

GovA89noo ana O1eeApotlOn tho
Taik of Two Kingdoms.
Count Ladislas Way Won vaya is
Chamberlain of the Emperor and
nobleman Of ancient lineage and vast
landed possessions, whose name has
within the last two years come some
what frequently before the public in
connection with the eccentricities Of his
daughter. The latter, who is o girl Of
about twenty-seven years, has been
placed "under curatel," that is to say,
she has been deprived Of the rightNof
contracting any legal debts or ,liga-
tons, and her fortune has been placed
in the hands of trustees. Her history,
as told by Vienna correspondent OF
the New York Tribune, is strange one.
IL appears that during the first eight
years Of Count Ways marriage no chill
dren were born to him., fact which
almost drove him to desperation when
he remembered that in default OF issue
his immense estates would pass to the
crown and his name become extinct.
In the ninth year, however, 1t seemed
as II his own prayers and those Of
tho Countess we're about to be
granted, and when ut length the
Countess gave birth to child he
had so thoroughly accustomed himself
to look for boy that no one at the
time ventured to undeceive him and tell
him that the infant was girl. The
priest who baptized the child was won
over to the more or less pardonable de-
ceit practiced on the Count by his wife
and her attendants, and, although the
name given by the sponsors was that
Of Sander, q boys name, the name en-
tered on the parish register was that OF
Sarolta, or Charlotte. Dressed and edu-
Gated like little boy, the little Count
ess bore the name Of Sander till her
eleventh year, and was believed by all
but the mother, the priest and q few
confidential servants to belong to the
male sex. She was taught to shoot and
fish, and from the age of six rode astride
Of her pony dressed in hussar uniform
like a little Centaur.
just about the time when tho Count
was beginning to consider the advisa-
bility Of sending his sdaughter-or, as he
thought, his son-to the nobles' acad-
emy at Pesth, his wife gave birth to
real boy. The necessity for keeping up
the fraud with regard to the sex of
Sandor-or Sarolta-had now disap-
peared, and steps were taken to make
every body acquainted with the true
facts of the case. 1t Is not stated
what steps were taken to undeceive the
Count himself, but os he still lives hap
PLY with his charming and popular wife
it may safely be taken for granted that
shedid not experience much difficulty In
obtaining his forgiveness. The only per-
son who seriously objected to the altered
condition OF things was the young
Countess herself, who had become too
much accustomed to regard herself ss .
boy, and was so strongly addicted to all
boyish sports and games, that she could
not reconcile herself to the role Of q
young lady. And instead of this feeling
passiuG away as she grew older, 1t be-
came stronger every year. She implored
her father, Of course without success, to
permit her to enlist as man in the
Honved Hussar Regiment, Of which he
was tho Colonel-in-Chief, or to allow her
to visit the university as male student.
AS soon, however, as she had reached
the ago Of twenty-one and had become
emancipated from the immediate con-
troll Of her parents, she took the bride
between her teeth, metaphorically
speaking, and, arrayed in mems
clothes, entered upon career
Of wild extravaganza and dissipa-
ton. Everywhere she gave her
name of Count Sander de Way and even
fought couple of duels with men who
had insulted her by casting her sex into
her teeth. A number Of articles signed
"Sandor Way" appeared in one Of the
leading Pesth newspapers, mostly on
sporting matters, on which she Is an
authority, and for the purpose Of keep
ing up the illusion Of her manhood she
even wentso far as to spend an immense
amount Of money on one Of tho most
charming divas Of the Hungarian stage,
purchasing house for her and horses
and carriages, besides loading her with
jewels. Her latest eccentricity consists
In having eloped and having gone
through marriage ceremony with the
daughter of an army contractor at Lay
bach, in Austria proper, for the sole OBJ
ject 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 thereby de-
prived 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 q
lunatic asylum.
A Family OF veritable Giants.
A family of giants named Rourke are
reported to be living in Belmont, Cass
County, N. d. The youngest son is so
years old, was born in Iowa, and has
lived in Dakota II years, during which