Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-15
CAN'T APPEAR
ASA MAN DOES
WOMEN RNRElN LAST LONG IN
MALE ATTIRE
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
However There Have Been Many
Exceptions Ia the General Rulr N
More Recent Wears.

men ilhlUtN Nl lNiN NltNN'h w NNlN r
ems attire, so oltuu unsuccessful or
~ h fundamental difference In ply
siquc. attitude, bearing and gesture
Iof the two sexes which both seldom
Initiate amy length of time without
detection?
Police officers usscr. u Is the lat
ter though in explaining individual
cases of women arrested while dress
ed as men they merely say, "wcll
he did not look just right" often
they can not asciIbc any particular
treason for their suspicious, they just
feel" that he s woman and usu-
ally find their lutWtious 10 be cur-
rcC,.
While there may bc something sub
ltly psychological about this feeling,
q sort OF elusive lnstinc, AS many
IcRim. the reason can usually Ice cN-
! planned In quite % cold-hoodcd way.
| Aside from the great physical differ
enccs Of strength ana size, especially
of the hands ana feet In complex
1 ion and formation ~ the features.
the lifelong adaptation of each sex
to lis particular style of clothing in
| rlucnccs hearing and gesture In rud-
ically opposite directions.
A woman has always been hamper
ed 10y her skirts aud as consequence
her stride is short and miucing with
the knees close together. This alone
would De enough o. hotray her seN in
mems clothes Surl corscts belts ana
fught waists make her sit up straight,
Iwhilc the young man sits on the small
tor his back or lolls comfortably all
over the chair. The straight back at
fright angles with the rest of the
/ chair, hands folded in HE lap ana
| knees close together would hotruy
| the most perfect makeup, There
larc thousand and one other littlo
peculiarities characteristic of each
sex. Men move the whole body while
walking arms. shoulders back, but
never the hips; women seldom move
at all, except slightly swinging the
Il arms or swaying The hips at each
lstcp.
Then gestures are 80 different a
I wonmn's outstretchcd hand Is rath-
cr graceful, especially the hand of
u young woman, and most of those
! who masquerade are ypnH4. the
fingers curve In toward the palm,
while the wrist is gracefully bent
while mans hand IL held stiff and
straight before him Ike pump ham
die The posc of the head, too, IS
lcntrely unlike one seldom sees a
man with his head one on side, yet
this Is an unconscious position with
women.
And it is these small differences
that discover the masquerader, even
though the suspicious one may not
be able to explain why he had noticed
the difference. OF course, these seS
characteristics may be studied by the
most successful of masdueraders. Yes
to Tilley the English impcrsonator of
men, attributes her success to hel
careful acting Of these small details
and Julian Eltlnge who impersOnates
women, exhibits his stock In trade OF
= feminine gestures, carriage and bear
ing as an explanation of his mosi
D dcceivlnG imperson9tions.
Z But the greatest difficulties TO sur
mount are differences in physique
q size of hands and feet, complexion
, and SO on Most masqueraders are
discovered in this way. Willie Win
ters. who was arrested In St. Louis
about q year ago, was suspected to
be woman at once by the IN of her
|, shoes, which, while not lNgc, OBJ
viously were much too large for his
feet Willie winters had lived and
Worked as n man I'm ST. Louis toi
nearly nine years without suspicion
as to her real sex She had started
rs boy quite accidentally She had
lived in Galveston as child with her
parents They were both lost In the
Galveston flood While Willie was
rescued and taken care of All her
clothes were swept away, and for
want of anything better she was
Dire ssed In boys clothing She went
To work in these, found she could find
work as boy more easily, and con
tinuod the disguise In st. Louis for
nine years. She Is "A strong woman
though not nbnormally large, aud she
did the heaviest Kind Of labor She
worked in n boiler factory, drove
wagons and handled heavy iron plates
She worked on an Ice wagon aud
handled her 5000 pounds Of Ice q
day. She was a laborcr and ala q
laborers heavy work successfully.
She lived with men Without cX-
letting a suspicion OF her sex until a
year ago, when she was WIS caught
lin raid on rooming house whore
an ex-convict was supposed 20 be In
hiding. Thetchief OF detectives spot
fit of her shoes her rather small
hands anI that iniang\e something
that told him that there was some-
thing different about her, and she
was led protesting to the matrons
room aud put into skirts She had
worn trousers so long that she Stun
bled awkwardly when she attempted
to walk I'm her feminine drpperics.
Another astonishlnly successful sex
masoueradcr WAS the woman crml-
nal. Ellis Glenn, who was caught
prosecuted and sentenced to the pen
itentiary at Chester, ILL.,, as man
where she served three years without
exciting single uspicicn as To- her
real sex Finally an Illness dscur-
cred her and she was hurrlcdlN trans
rerred from Chester whore only men
are imprisoned. 10 the wOman's ward
at Joliet Needless 10 say, a great
deaf of fun was poked at the prison
officials. who didn't even know q
woman when they saw one
Another notorious case In ST. Louis
police annals was that Of Mary VII.
/ mrd. a woman burglar who commit
/ ted burglary In mems clothes, then
hurrledly changed back to woman''
dress TO escape detection II was
she who went through the apartments
OF 81 Loulsnn well known in -clul
circles and stole Of his most fastld'
ious clothes when arrested she was
u handsome boy dressed In the ull"a
height Of style She was the only
woman who ever escaped from the
penltentiary at Jefferson city She
came back to ST. Louis In disguise
but was recognized and gent back the
Same month.
Another rather pathetic casc Ia 81.