A WOMAN’S DILEMMA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9408, 31 March 1909, Page 7

A WOMAN’S DILEMMA.

A young woman, aged twenty-four, whose name is withheld for obvious reasons, has received formal written permission from the Berlin police to wear men’s clothes, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express. She has a masculine appearance, bold, resolute features, a moustache and whiskers, shor|i hair, and a sturdy masculine figure. The result was that when she went about in female cloches she was repeatedly anested by police as a male masquerading in woman’s clothes. Each time she had to produce her birth certificate to prove her sex. Finally, after having been arrested some ten times on the charge of being a man masquerading in woman’s clothes, she declared that henceforth she would wear male attire, and that if prevented from so doing she would commit suicide rather than return * to female dress. Henceforth she dressed and lived as a man. She ' obtained a post in a large Berlin house, where her secret was only known to the proprietor. She was knownlto the staff as Herr So-and-so. They had not the least inkling of her sex. Soon, however, she became involved in trouble again, owing to her male attire being incompatible with particulars which she to report to the police. The police have now granted her permission to appear publicly as- a man.