GIRL REARED AS A BOY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 11

GIRL REARED AS A BOY.

jln' Council Bluffs, lowa, the police, satisfied .'themselves of the'truth of the story told.by "Frederick Adams," 19 years old, who said she had been forced by her-mother; to-be a boy in-order that her parents might receive a certain legacy.' tripped into' the police station and. told the amazed superintendent "he" wished to give himself.up for posing da a boy, when "he"was really agirl. Frederick was dressed inVa blue serge suit, patent leather shoes and jaunty straw hat, and looked just an' average good looking youth. The superintendent thought-Frederick was ; suffering from sunstroke or lunacy, when he said he, hod left his parents,; and asked the police to assist him in-obtaining girl's clothing. Frederick'was transferred to the police matron, who corroborated the strange story. "I have never' been permitted to be a girl," said Frederick. "Whenl was a child I wanted dolls, but ray mother made me play with tops'and tin soldiers. I was trained with boys 1 and" forced to take part in their rough games. I stood it'aa long as I could: I worked on a farm'|as a boy, and I don't like that. I have fished, hunted and played tmant from school as a boy, but now I want to be my real self and: wear girl's clothes and call myself Frederica."' The police matron dressed the girl in feminine attire, and in her first-attempt'to'.walk she tripped in:the skirt and went full length on the floor. Woman is so. used to discomfort—following fashion, and thus being uncomfortable from hat to toe—that she can keep her temper in circumstances that would drive a man to fury.— Clarence Rook. ■; -'. '■'. , ' 2 Customer—"You don't seem very, quick at figures, my boy." Newsboy—"l'm out o' practice. Ye see, most of de gents says,'TCeep de change.';".' - : •'' _______':-