The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-09-06
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Maine Youth Falls tn Love With
Teacher And Drops Disguise.

Members or the Union Baptist
church were about evenly divided
over the proposed expulsion of Sister
Cora Norton following the discovery
that the young person who has been
posing ID u girl for % years was
actually Mr.. Eugene Cody" Norton.
The village was stirred to it,
depths few days ago when Cora
returned from a trip to the White
Mountains i'd company with Miss
Abby IT, Foster, teacher i'm the East
Corinth Academy and straightway
applied At the Town Clerks Office
for marriage license, explaining to
that astonished official that In reality
ashe'' was a man.
The license was issued, and Nor
ton and Miss Foster we're married ia
Governor Milliken's Office at the
State House in Augusta. There have
been noisy serenades under the cou-
pies window since their return. The
Indignation or the church members
extends w HCora's" bride because 1t
il asserted that Norton had conided
the truth regarding his sex to- Miss
Foster, but that the latter had per-
mitted him to be baptized and re
ceiyed into the church al sister.
Dozens of persons today are de-
claring that they always had noticed
Cora had an extraordinarily deep
voice FOR a girl and that she was
exceptionally capable with the chores,
taking entire care of herd OF 20
COWS.
Draft board officials are interested
-4R- >F yeyy -
she failed To register under the
selectire law lit was i'm connection
with this that Norton and Miss Fos-
fer went to Augusta to see the Cover
nor. What took place in the Guber-
material Office other than that there
was marriage ceremony has not
been disclosed.
According to Mrs Norton, her hus-
bands mother - responsible for the
deception he has practiced for years
because when he was q young boy she
dressed him in girls clothing She
said that several times he had at
tempted to reveal his secret, but that
he had become 50 accustomed to his
feminine role that he found ii inn
possible.
4
rinth To show that he has ever been
guilty OF the slightest indiscretion,
even i'm word" said Mrs. Norton of
her husband His character is
Christian and blameless. 7 know
what the people here, especially the
women, are saying: ITO think that
that man was among our daughters
at school and church affairs" But he
has never violated the confidence OF
any person and he Is perfectly honor
able
a''I am teacher i'm the East Corinth
Academy and Mr.. Norton was one of
my pupils. Ny motto is to fall in
love with my pupils the first day Of
school and never to fall out Oh love
with them was fond of him, think
house and did the chores among the
farmers. Three days before school
closed last June he came to me and
told me he was a man. Then
last week we filed our marriage in
tentions and now we are married"
On the day after Norton and Miss
Foster filed their marriage intentions
the former created near-riOt i'm the
village street by appearing i'm mans
suit. His hair, formerly long anG
done I'D In a knot at the back OF his
head, was cut short It was OF. finer
texture apparently than that of moss
young men, His hands were softer
and whittier than the average mascu-
line hands Norton Is still iii a
ease i'm his male attire and continues
to sit and walk with feminine grace
East Corinth girls say now tha-
they have always known Cora" was
queer" They knew, they declare
that Norton shaved during the time
they thought him of their own sex
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