The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-03
FEMALES POSED AS MN
FAMOUS CASES WHERE THEY
HAVE PASSED sASaTHE -OPPO-
SIZE SEX
MANIA STARTED WITH sAPPHo
One of the Few Among These Phe-
nOmenaI Women Now Alive Is
Catherine COOmbs, of
London.

The task which Murray Hall set herself
has attracted many women before her.
Most of them have gained certain sort
/ Of posthumouS fame thereby. In this
fact may perhaps be found Murray Hall S
motive, says the New York World. But
she had no confidantS This must be
speculation. There is a very large class
of these cases which are due to dis
eased brain or perhaps to defective
brain. I refer to the cases of women who
are born with a masculine mind, mimi
that endowss it's -possessor with all the
masculine tastes and desires.
1t has been estimated by those who
have studied the subject very carefully
that one woman in 100 is thus affected.
She mas the, mind of a man engrafted
into the body of, woman. Her tastes
are ali masculine This frequently leads
to grave mental disease.
The opposite of, this condltion-the man
with tastes of the opposite seX-is more
common than the former. Krafft-Ebling,
the great German psychologist who has
| made a Very careful study of these I'M
| fortunates, has, / believe, estimated that
in civilized cities one man among 80 IS
| the proportion of these. He also states
! that this condition is on the increase, and
! that it seems to increase as civilization
| advances.
These unfortunate people, who must be
! looked on as insane, have existed for as
long period as we have any authentic
records Rome and Greece, in the days of
their greatest glory, furnished many ex-
arnpleS.
In history the most prominent, of
course, is that of Sappho.
The cases that have been carried out
| to their successful termination. where
the motive was of the highest, have been
examples of the noble3t heroism possib
for human beings to reach. The splendid
no lxah
come, all indicate a determination that
seems superhuman.
OF all the women who have played the
part of men and died playing it, the
Countess Sarolta Way is one of the most
famous. g.
The countess was an Austrian girl and
attained celebrity some ten years ago.
She was the daughter of a colonel, who,
having a large family of daughters,
brought UP Sarolta as boy. Her girl
hood was passed in Pesth, where she
visited cafes in mans clothing and drank
and smoked with journalists and officers.
She published book of poems under
the name off Sander, and appeared for
the first time, in uniform shortly previous
to the time when her family first tried
to dissuade her from continuing her dis
guise. r1
She refused, however, and was next
heard of as a. sutton for the daughter Of
school teaeherin Klagenfurt. She was
known theretasf Count Sander Way and
as such married the young woman, Marie
Engelhardt. Il The swind,e was shortly
discovered, but not until after the count
had squandered5ea good snare of her
''wife's' money
One woman, as tradition goes, once
succeeded even in becoming pope of
Rome Modern Investigation, however,
discredits the story.
The heroine OF this astonishing tale
was Pope Jcan,'' an English girl born
in France whoa for love of young
monk assumed masculine dress and en-
tered a monastery. Later the two fed
the monastery, the monk died, and Mis-
tress Joan, still in disguise, won for her
self pretty reputation as a scholar and
lecturer In Rome her prestige became
so great that in 655 A D., on the death
of Leo w, the beardless priest was
chosen his successor under the name of
John VIII Two years five months and
four days she held sway over Christen-
| dom when she died.
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