Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-04-20
WON IN IN MEMS CLOTHES.
Carecrs Of Feminine Advocates of Mus
Cuiinc Attire.

| Cuiinc Attire.
The case of Murray Hall. the WON.
an who so long deceived New York
in regard to her sex. is by no means
without parallel About year ago
| Ellis Glenn" who had fled from
| debts and an engagement to ELLA Duke
! OF litchlield. ILL.,. confessed when ar
| rested to being woman. and yet she
had lived for some time in n small
town, doing mans work and awaken.
ing no suspicion whatever. There are
many tales Of women who served as
| soldiers, and one of these. thoroughly
| authenticated was reported only a
| short time ago from the Philippines.
One Maggie Curley served before the
mast; Minnie Briggs. trapc2e per.
former. worked as an expert telegraph
linesman. and otto Schaffer." a Kan.
sas hermit and soldier. turned out to
be woman. though given. neverthe.
less, military funeral History fur
nishes numberless examples from an.
cient times to the more modern in
stances noted by Krafft-E -Ebing.
Perhaps the most famous case OF
this kind is that of the Countess"
Sarolta Way, 10 years ago. The child
OF an Austrian colonel. with a large
family of daughters only. she was
reared as a boy and was well known
man about town." in Pesth. drinking
and smoking. and even appearing in
military uniform. When her family
finally tired of the farce she refused
to give it up. and was not discovered
until she married the daughter of q
schoolmaster and sGuandered all her
wife's money. Chevalie- DEon, when
Louis Nv. wanted woman to act as
secret agent on Russian mission. as
sumed the role and broke dozen
hearts in Moscow. The sex of one
Englshman, a figure at court, was dis.
covered only by death. while Queen
Christina of Sweden. after resigning
her crown at 2S. spent half her time
in European cities dressed in mans
attire.
fought through the campaigns of Carl
baldi passing as the brother of her
husband being decorated for bravery.
Mary East kept a saloon with a WON.
an called her wife. Louis Herman. a
well known courier and good lin
guist has for AZ years been affecting
mems clothes. Then there is DR.. Mary
Walker and Dr.. James Barry, the
English army surgeon. who fought
duel at the Cape with one who dared
call her . woman. Nora Smith of
Ohio, hid her sex for 12 years. and
Frank Blunt managed q lumber
camp, was married and divorced be-
fore detected. Mrs Lindsey 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
woman's heart and was killed in
brawl with London police: Bessie
Finegold married a New York girl,
Catherine Coombs was an English
miner and Mrs. Loganani also one in
Hazleton.
Mrs. Julia Forest took her injured
husbands place also in the Pennsy-
vania mines. and for 20 years Mrs.
Westover was the town barber of
kdTlDOTO, u. IOnV IIeeSd was
loved by every girl in Yonkers fac
tory until she herself fell in love and
married a man. Army muster rolls
are, however. after all. the place to
look for these cases. Private Jorgen-
son served for 20 years in the Victoria
Rifles. and in Fox's "Regimental
Losses" we note examples as follows:
Charles ID. Fuller. 46th Pennsylvania.
detected and discharged; Sergeant
Frank Mayne. 126th Pennsylvania. de.
serted. and subsequently killed in bat
tie in another regiment; Franklin
Thompson, I'd Michigan. detected; l..
NJ Blaylock. 2Gth North Carolina de.
tected. Most of these women served,
before being discharged. with unusual
bravery and their cases almost parall-
ell that of Christian Cavanagh, the
English woman. who enlisted with her
impressed husband in Holland. was
wounded at Mamillies and then re.
mained with the regiment as cook.
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