The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-19

NAS0 SIle ulu not escape the usual ro-
nance OF female adventures in male at
tife- Several women fell i'm love with her
"a quaint satire upon the sex which boasts
It's uherrlng intuitions. After her return
10 ctVh life she persisted in wearing mems
clothes and became landlord, If YOU will
ana apparently tho chief customer of a
tavern IN Mapping. 1t is said that her
potauons were deeper than those of her
male companions. The government gave
her pension of 40 a year until her death.
we IN America have had our amazons in
every one of our famous wars. Half a
dozen were discovered in Cuba, and in the
Phllppines, but none has eclpsed the
fame of Lieut.. Harry Buford of the Con-
Iederate army. Her maiden name was
Loretta Janeta Velesquez. At the out
Dfeak of the Civil War she persuaded her
husband TO resign from the United States
army and to throw his lot with the Con-
tederacy. She even succeeded in raising
a regiment of volunteers for him and ac-
companied him in uniform as his lieuten-
ant. Unfortunately he was killed by the
explosion of a carbine while drilling his
men and the widow was obliged to shift
for herself. She was present at the first
battle of Bull Run, at that of Balls Bluff
and narrowly escaped capture with her
comrades at Fort Donelson. Subsequent
ly she served as a Confederate spy while
ostensibly employed in the secret service
VI tne United states.
Strong Minded of the Sex.
Blue stockings and pantaloons seem to
have an innate affinity. Many women of
genius have emphasized the azure hue of
their hosiery with the additional self-as-
sertiVeness of pantaloons.
There was time when French actresses
who assumed male attire on the stage were
fond of showing themselves in the streets
in their histrionic garb
The career of the so-called Count San
dor Way of Hungary reads like a romance.
In August, 1892, he married a teacher at
k'ogenfurt. The newly married couple
lived for a time with the girls father, an
inspector of forests, in that village But
the father-in-law found himself continu-
ally feeeed by the alleged count; the ref
erances he gave We're all bogus, and the
inspector convinced his son-in-law was a
swindler, put detectives on his track.
Then a series of extraordinary revela-
tons was made.
The Count was no Count, but a Count
ess the daughter of the late Count Lads
las Way, a general and imperial chamber
lain. Her name was Sarolta Way. She
was born in 1856. Her mother. married
for nine years without other issue, knew
that Count Ladslas had waited long and
anXiously for an heir, and she feared to
tell him that his first born was only q
girl. With the aid of a nurse she con-
cealed from him the sex of the child, and
as time passed took all necessary precau-
tions to continue the deception. Sarolta
went into knickerbockerS and roundabouts
at the age of 5. played boys games and
received boys education. When she was
IA her father decided TO send her to a mill
itary school. To prevent this her mother
was forced to confess the truth. The
Count, after a storm, swallowed his cha
grin, put the girl into dresses and sent
her to a female school. Sarolta refused to
be transformed. She stole into trousers
whenever she got chance, she ran away
from school, she begged her father to let
her enter the honored hussar regiment.
When he refused she swore to astonish
the country as soon as she reached her
majority.
Went to the End of the Rope.
And she kept her word. The day she
was q she resumed her male attire and
swung into the vortex of dissipation In
Vienna, Pesth and Prague. She associat-
ed with young men, who were not in the
secret, in all manly amusements. She
smoked, drank, gambled, fought duels, got
into debt and to eXtricate herself embez-
zled, stole and forged on a grand scale.
She likewise contracted no less than nine
mock marriages. All of her wives have
seemed to catch the contagion of her own
hallucination. Six of them live in Vienna
as divorced Countesses Way.
Our historians present an amusing chap
ter on the American bloomer. They make
a mistake, however, in attributing the in
vention of that garment to the eponymic
Amelia Bloomer. 1t has recently been
shown apropos of the BIoomer centennial,
that it was Elizabeth Smith Miller, daugh-
ter of Gerrit Smith, who first startled the
American public by appearing in that mod
ification of Turkish trousers under a short
skirt She wore it with the fun approval
of her husband and her father, in defiance
OF the rdicule heaped upon her by people
and press, and persuaded her cousin, Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton, to follow her eX-
ample Then, and not till then, did Mrs.
Boomer switch off her petticoats and put
on the sexless and graceless costume. AS
the editor of a paper caller the Lily, de-
voted to temperance and woman's rights,
she was better known at that time than
either of the others Hence the costume
became identified with her name
Caricature attributed to bloomerism
many extravagancies of which it was not
guilty. The boomer in Punch, in Chariv-
ari and the Kladderadatscil was associat-
ed with all that is now attributed to new
womanism. The girl who wore boomers
smoked, drank and, if she were married,
henpecked her husband.
Bloomerism, in view of the caricatur-
lists, represented a topsy-turvy world, a
world in which the social order was re-
versed.