The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-27
WOMEN IN MEMS CLOTHES.
Careers of Feminine Advocates of Mascu.
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The case of Murray Hall, the woman
who SO long deceived New York in re-
gard to her sex, is by no means without
parallel. About a year ago Ellis
Glenn who had fed from debts and an
engagement to Ella Duke OF LluchIleld,
Ill.,, confessed wien alre sted to beng a
woman, ana Yet she hau Lvea Ior SINE
time III d small town, DONG a NAH
work ana awakening no suspicion what
ever. There are hIdly LaIes women
VINO SerS ed as soldiers, anu one of these,
thoroughly authenuca LED, was rebol ted
oEiy d short time ago from The Ph.l-p-
pines. One Maggie Curley served before
the mast; Minnie Briggs, a trapeZe per
former, worked as an experL releSi IIl
linesman, and "Otto Schaffer d Kansas
hermit and soldier, turned out TO be
woman, though given, nevertheless,
military funeral. History furnishes MUM
berless examples from ancient times TO
the more modern instances noted by
Kraft Ebing.
Perhaps the most famous case OF this
kind is that of the Countess Sarolta
Way, ten years ago. The child of an Aus.
trian colonel with large family CT
daughters only, she was reared as a hoy
and was well-known man about
town. in Pesth, drinking and smoking,
and even appearing in military inform.
When her family finally tired OF the
farce she refused to give it up, and was
daughter of a schoolmaster and squa1-
dered all her wife's money. Tradition,
of course, furnishes examples of women
who, for reasons of state, held as men
high civil and ecclesiastical offices, as in
the fable Of Pope JOAN But a real
case is of the opposite sort-that of the
Chevalier D'Eon, who, when Louis XIV.
wanted woman to act as secret agent
on a Russian mission, assumed the role
and broke dozen hearts in Moscow. The
sex of one Englishman, figure at court,
was discovered only by death, while
queen Christina Of Sweden, after re-
signing her crown at %, spent half her
time in European cities dressed in mans
attire.
| The Venetian Tonina Marinello fought
through the campaigns of Garibaldi,
passing as the brother of her husband
and being decorated for bravery. Mary
East kept a saloon with woman called
her wife. Louis Herman, well-known
courier and a good linguist, has Tor for
ty-two years been affecting mems
clothes. Then there is DR.. Mary Wa ker
and DR.. James Barry, the English army
surgeon, who fought duel at the Cape
with one who dared call her a woman.
Nora Smith of Ohio hid her sex for
twelve years, and frank Blunt" man.
aged lumber camp, was married and
divorced before detected. Mrs. Lindsay
went as soldier through our Civil
War; Louise Watson, child of rich
parents, braved London as a boy, and
Mary Talbot was cabin boy, broke one
womans heart and was killed in a brawl
with London police Bessie Finegold
married New York girl, Catherine
Coombs was an English miner and Mrs.
Loganani also was in Hazleton.
Mrs. Julia Forest took her injured hus-
bands place also in the Pennsylvania
mines and for twenty years Mrs. West
oyer was the town barber of Marlboro
Conn. Tony Leesa'' was loved by ev-
cry girl in a Yonkers factory until she
herself fell in love and married man
Army muster rolls are, however afte,
all, the place to look for these cases. Pri.
yate Jorgenson served for twenty years
in the Victoria Rifles, and in Fox's
''Regimental Losses We note examples
as follows: Charles D. Fuller, Forty.
sixth Pennsylvania, detected and dis
charged; Sergeant Frank Mayne, 126tt
Pennsylvania, deserted, and subsequently
killed in battle in another regiment
Franklin Thompson, Second Michigan
detected: J.. VI. Blaylock, Twenty-sixtt
North Carolina, detected. Most Of these
women served, before being discharged
with unusual bravery, and their cases
almost parallel that of Christian Cava.
nagh, the English woman. who enlisted
with her impressed husband In Holland
was wounded at Families and then re-
manned with the regiment as cook.