never avoided the severest tests.  “She drank, she swore, she courted girls, she worked as hard as her fellows, she fished and camped; she told stories with the best of them, and she did not flinch when the talk grew strong.  She even chewed tobacco.”  Girls began to fall in love with the good-looking boy at an early period, and she frequently boasted of her feminine conquests; with one girl who worshipped her there was a question of marriage.  On account of lack of education she was restricted to manual labor, and she often chose hard work.  At one time she became a boiler-maker’s apprentice, wielding a hammer and driving in hot rivets.  Here she was very popular and became local secretary of the International Brotherhood of Boiler-makers.  In physical development she was now somewhat of an athlete.  “She could outrun any of her friends on a sprint; she could kick higher, play baseball, and throw the ball overhand like a man, and she was fond of football.  As a wrestler she could throw most of the club members.”  The physician who examined her for an insurance policy remarked:  “You are a fine specimen of physical manhood, young fellow.  Take good care of yourself.”  Finally, in a moment of weakness, she admitted her sex and returned to the garments of womanhood.

In London, in 1912, a servant-girl of 23 was charged in the Acton Police Court with being “disorderly and masquerading,” having assumed man’s clothes and living with another girl, taller and more handsome than herself, as husband and wife.  She had had slight brain trouble as a child, and was very intelligent, with a too active brain; in her spare time she had written stories for magazines.  The two girls became attached through doing Christian social work together in their spare time, and resolved to live as husband and wife to prevent any young man from coming forward.  The “husband” became a plumber’s mate, and displayed some skill at fisticuffs when at length discovered by the “wife’s” brother.  Hence her appearance in the Police Court.  Both girls were sent back to their friends, and situations found for them as day-servants.  But as they remained devoted to each other arrangements were made for them to live together.

Another case that may be mentioned is that of Cora Anderson, “the man-woman of Milwaukee,” who posed for thirteen years as a man, and during that period lived with two women as her wives without her disguise being penetrated. (Her “Confessions” were published in the Day Book of Chicago during May, 1914.)

It would be easy to bring forward other cases.  A few instances of marriage between women will be found in the Alienist and Neurologist, Nov., 1902, p. 497.  In all such cases more or less fraud has been exercised.  I know of one case, probably unique, in which the ceremony was gone through without any deception on any side:  a congenitally inverted Englishwoman of distinguished