Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-18
WEDDING IS DELAYED.
Just Because the Bride Was Regis
 tered as a. Boy.

Just Because the Bride Was Regis
 tered as a Boy.
 The most extra ordinary predicament in which any girl ever had the misfor- tune to find herself was surely that of the young woman in Paris who recent ly discovered that she figured in the official register of births as boy! Be- ing about to be married, she applied to the proper auth critics for birth cer- tifcate, and was then mortified to find that the above amazing blunder had been perpetrated at the time of the registration of her birth.
 She also found that the police had warrant out for the arrest of the sup posed "boy" for not presenting herself for the usual term of military service. The consequence is that the marriage cannot take place for at least six months, as it will take fully that time for the poor girl to establish her iden- tity and to get the extraordinary blum der put right. How it came to be made there is at present nothing to show.
 Perhaps still more remarkable in some respects was the case of another young Frenchwoman who resided at Chateau-Thierry. But the inaccurate registration of her sex did not prevent or postpone her wedding, for it was not discovered until month or two after that happy event had taken place.
 An amusing feature of this case is that the girl was married by the chief ma gist trate of f1the' commune of Fresnes without this official noticing that her birth certificate enormously described her as ''child of the male sex" This astounding discovery was subsequent ly made by the husband, who, greatly perturbed at the prospect of having his l newly acquired "better half" called up for the usual term of military service of the sterner sex, at once petitioned yhe civil tribunal for a rectiication of l the error.
 As preliminary step that court ap- 1 pointed a medical expert to investigate and draw up a report, as to the real sex of the subject of the proceedings. | There have been at least one or two l similar mistakes made in England, l Four or five years ago one was brought l to light in a Lancashire town, owing to 1he victim of it having to produce a cer- l tificate of her birth as evidence of her l qualification in point of age for situa- tion she was trying to obtain. In that l document her sex was set forth as that of a boy, and after a considerable 1 amount of trouble the misdescription in the register was rectified, although 1 there was nothing to show how it had originally arisen. It only remains for the writer to add that the girl was duly appointed to the position for which she had applied; so she suffered no loss I by the egregious mistake of those re- sponsible for the registra ton of her en- 1 try into this world.
 l In another instance a London young l couple found that they had landed l their offspring in a similar fix. The mother had duly registered the birth within the statutory period, and, al though she strongly protested that she had informed the registrar that the baby was girl he had entered her on the register as boy.
 Curiously enough, too, the name given to the child was one-Sidney or I Sydney-more frequently bestowed or boy babies. and perhaps this had some thing to do with the error. But, for tunately. the mistake was discovered
 before the little lady was old enougt to know or care whether she had beer registered as girl or as a boy, anc she was saved all the trouble of get ting the entry put right in later years Her mother, too, was careful to give
 all her subsequent children-fve-
 names which easily idicated the SC,
 to which the bearers of them belonged
 A further example of a girl who wa
 legally a boy is found in the vicinity 0, 1 Lyons. As in most of the other case,
 quoted, she grew into womanhood be
 fore the blunder regarding her SCI
 was founl out; but, on applying fo
 her official papers, to enable her to ge married, she was filled with amaze
 ment on learning that she was de
 scribed in the register of births as o
 the male sex.
 The officials at the marie had som difficulty in convincing her that the,
 were not joking at her expense, bu
 she was finally satisfied and took tn
 necessary steps to have the error cor
 rected. Her suitor, however, was S,
 perturbed by the discovery that h ,, broke off the engagement and thel . married another girl.