Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-20

along the lines or the evolutionary tneory,I
has reached the Ultima Thule of deduc--i
tive reasoning regarding the beginning of
animal life in the declaration that, orig
inally, there was but one sex-and that
sex was female, says a writer in the
Philadelphia North American.
And the modern science OF physiology
stands ready to coneede that today, inJ
either sex, some traits OF the other per-
sist-that, in every man, there remains
something of the original woman: and |
in every woman, something of the origi-l
nal man.
Many Conspicuous Cases.
Conspicuous individual cases have pre-
scented themselves in the history of man.
kind, from the famous instance of thel
Cheyalier d. Eon, who mystifed all Eu
rope a century ago, to the strange ro-l
nance of Nicolai de Raglan, the man
woman who was an attache of the Rus
sian consulate at Chicago for years, wasl
married and was everywhere regarded as
man, and proved to be a woman inl
mans clothing only when death, FROM
consumption, in Phoenix, Ariz., made -hel
real sex indisputable.
Those cases, wide as was the interest
they awakened, have been surpassed in
strangeness by many Others, of which the
records are preserved by all authorities
concerned with the vagaries of the hu-
man race.
Women have drunk. smoked, chewed,
gambied, fought, worked and made love-
yes, married again and again-in the role
of men, and they carried on deception
for years, to have their sex discovered
only when Death set his fatal stamp
upon the forgery they had so dearly cher
ished.
Was a Tammany Henchman.
There was Murray Hall, almost the
whole of whose mature life-she died at
the age of 30 in New York, half a dozen
years ago-was passed as a henchman of
Tammany hall, while she maintained an
intelligence office at 165 Sixth avenue.
When she was 40 years old she married
Celia +. Lowe, in the lower Sixth Ave
nue. Presbyterian church; and the couple
lived together until the wife" died after
nearly a quarter of a century. The wife
had all a wife's troubles, for Murray
Hall drank like any man. and he had
a better taste than most men in the selec-
ton of women other than his wife whom
he chose to make love to and treat in
saloons.
The Hall couple adopted a daughter,
who grew up to be a good and hand-a
some girl, and inherited Murray Halls
little fortune in savings.
Scarcely ten months elapsed before
Charles Winslow Hall of Boston, bound
for New York from Naples with his wife,
died on board the steamship Citta de
Tereno, of consumption. He had lived
a mans life aboard ship. drinking and
smoking with the other men; and it was
only when the vessels surgeon had to be
called in, with Hall about to die, that
the captain, under a promise of secrecy.
which could not be preserved, learned
his passenger was woman.
The body was sent to the parents. Mr..
and Mrs. John E. Hall, of Boston, for
Hall was their handsome daughter, Caro-
.-E.d nr%sn =, Il.
ceiling that of her father, one of Bos-
toms successful architects.
The girl had lived abroad since she
was IL. While studying art in Milan she
donned mans attire, la Rosa Bonheur.
and not a few of Rosa's emuiators in
the Milan studio.
Once a man, always man, would
seem to be the motto of women like the
Halls. Good looking, artistic Caroline
Hail. gifted with strong, well-defined
features and a deep alto voice, could
never bring herself to relinquish the
novel advantages and opportunities APP
pertaining to her stolen sex.
DIR. Mary Walker. for motives which
the world learned to respect could assume
mans garb and remain the respectable
woman she was before she conceived it a
duty TO personify protesting femininity;
end Louise Michel, in order to penetrate
into the Russia she sought to stir into a
feetiveness of her male disguise by trav-
cling about in company with a wife"
Queen Feminine Affection.
But Miss Hall, like Murray Hall, De
Raylan and scores of other women whose
sex trammels have irked them, promptly
developed a queer male laundering after
feminine affection, and carried with her,
until the day of her death on shipboard,
her beautiful Italian wife," Signorina
Rosalie Baldelli.
Then there was Lota Austine Sawyer
beautiful accomplished and well born.
whose adventures as Herman Gray Wood
five years ago, from Baltimore to New
York. babe fair to rival Byron's Don
Juan. until the police interviewed in her
Ernestine L. Rauck-as pretty a widow
as ever happened in Baltimore, a city
famous for its beauties.
Daughter of a prosperous North Caro-
lima farmer, who died when she was
baby. Lota Sawyer grew into a girlhood
that was the admiration of the country
round about. When she was only 10 she
was drugged by miscreants at a country
dance to which her family let the child
60 unattended. Her young life was
ruined. and her relatives turned against
her.
Marriage Was Exposed.
In despair of her disgrace she left her
nome ASSuiue0 tHc bt II man. ana
tried to make her living like a man. But
her beauty brought her the eager affec-
items of half the women and girls she
met. She became one OF the most des-
perate firts Baltimore held. and she was
just as ready to play mans better part
by knocking down any churl who ven
tured an Insult 20 a woman.
After the expose of her marriage to
Mrs Rauck. the girls misfortune awak-
ened really helpful sympathy among
some people whose employment brought
them ia touch with the case. They pro-
vided her with funds, and Lota Sawyer.
aving passed through most bitter
waters of fault ana punishment. regajned
her sex. and, as a woman whose -es-
eapade was soon forgotten, learned how
10 make q new, good life in New York
DIR Cyrus Edison estimates that one
woman out of 80 is norm with a mans
brain in woman's body. Krafft-Ebling.
the famous German psychologist. has
found that NE man out of every $50
has a woman's brain in a mans body: /
and he finds. too. that with the advance
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