NEWS RY MAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1921, Page 3

NEWS RY MAN.

21 YEARS As A GIRL

NEW YORK. Oetolier 10

A quaint story of a hoy having been raised to manhood as a girl comes trom the' little island of Ocrtienke. oil North (,’nroline. whither, after a brief struggle for a living in Baltomore. Charles C. Williams. 21, has just returned, declaring that he much prelers wearing skitts sewing, household work and the rnmI moonship of girls. When Williams was horn his mother was bitterly disappoint,'d that he was not a girl. She called him \eia and dressed him as a girl. Ocriieokc supports some OIK) persons, mostly fisherfolk and with the exception of the mother. none knew that Vera was a hov. lie grew up to he a quite good-look-ing girl with blonde hair and fair complexion, and he did not leave the island until his 21st birthday, when his mother took him dressed in women’s clothes, to the mainland, where he made the discovery that Oeraeoke was only a small place in the world.

On bis return to the island \ era wrote to a mail-order house and obtain eil bv parcel post an outht oi men s eh,tiles. He cut off Ids long hair, took the money lie had earned by sewing ami rowed to the mainland. Then he wrote to his mother that he was tired of being a girl.

She replied telling him that his real name was Charles. I’or two months Charles worked as a waiter in Baltimore. Then he became disgusted with the world. He has now returned to Oeraeoke and the society of his girl friends.

SIR HARRY LAUDER RONES. NEW YORK. Get. 3. Sir Harry Lauder, who-is in the Cunard liner Aquitan/a. on his way to the Coiled Slates, i- the new light-weight boxing champion of the British -MerchanUServiee. Details of the Homeric contest in which Sir Harry gained the title arc contained in the following wireless message 1 bave received from the ship:

“hi beautiful weather, before a crowded ringside. Sir Harry Lauder .mu ( Jguijg' Mil son, Uglitwoii'ht < hnmpion ol tlu* British M»‘rrluml Sorviro. “it omul I. Sir Harry found lie had ■ doves on the wrung hands and before resuming the bout requested that he should not be buried at sea. “Bounds 2 to o. Sir Harry badly mauled. “Bound ti. Sir Harry drew .Mason’attention to a seagull in the air and knocked him out with a ‘fowl’ blow.” I