The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-01
she STILL WEARS PANTS.
A Girl Who Deceived Her Friends
and Relatives as to Her Sex.

and Relatives as to Her Sex.
One of the most notable of tn
officers is General Count Ladisla
Way Won Vaya, a chamberlain o
the Emperor and a nobleman o
ancient lineage and vast landed pos
sessions, whose name has with,
the last two years come somewha
frequently before the public in con
nection with the eccentricities 0
his daughter. The latter, who is {
girl about twenty-seven years, has
recently been placed "under cura
TEL" that is to say, she has been de-
prived of the right of contracting
any legal debts or obligations, and
her fortune has been placed in the
hands of trustees. Her history is 9
strange one. It appears that dur.
ing the first eight years Of Count
Ways marriage no children 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, how
ever, it seemed as if his own pray
ers and those of the countess were
about to be granted, and when at
length the countess gave birth to a
child, he had so thoroughly accus-
toned himself to look for a boy
that no one at the time ventured to
undeceive him and tell him that the
infant was girl. The priest who
baptised 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, a boys name, the
name entered on the parish register
was that of Sarolta, or Charlotte.
Dressed and educated like boy,
the little countess bore the name of
Sander till her eleventh 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 six rode astride
the pony, dressed in hussar uniform,
like little Centaur.
Just about the time when the
count was beginning to consider the
advisability of sending his daugh-
ter-or, as he thought, his son-to
the mobiles academy at Pesth, his
wife gave birth to second child,
which this time was a 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 every
body acquainted with the true facts
of the case. It is not stated what
steps were taken to undeceive the
count himself, but as he still lives
happily with his charming and pop
ular wife, it may safely be taken for
granted that she did not experience
much difficulty in obtaining his
forgiveness.
The only person who seriously
objected to the altered condition of
,hings was the young countess her.
'elf, who had become too much &C
,ustomed to regard herselfas a boy,
md was SO strongly addicted to all
'oyish sports and games, that she
ould not reconcile herself to the
ole of young lady. And instead
# this feeling passing away as she
rev older, it became stronger every
ear. She implored her father-of
curse without success-to permit
Ter to enlist as man in the Honved
lussar regiment, of which he was
be colOnel-in-chief, or to allow her
0 visit the university as a male
tudent.
AS soon, however, as she reached
he age of twenty-one, and had be-
ONE emancipated from the imme-
late control of her parents, she
ook the bride between her teeth,
1etaphorically speaking, and ar
aged in mems clothes, entered up
n career of wild extravaganza
nd dissipation. Everywhere she
ave the name of Count Sander de
,ay, and even fought a couple of
uels with men who had insulted ,
er by casting her sex in her teeth.
number of articles signed "San-
or Voy" appeared in one of the ,,
,ading Pesth newspapers, mostly
n sporting matters, on which she ..
authority, and for the purpose of
eeping up the illusion of her man. !
ood she even went 50 lar as to
pend an immense amount of
loney on one of the most charming
ivas of the Hungarian stage, pur-
nasing a house for her and horses =
nd carriages, beside loading her
it'll jewels. Her latest escapade .
insists in her having eloped and !.
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