AN ADVENTUROUS GERMAN LADY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 226, 30 May 1872, Page 8

AN ADVENTUROUS GERMAN LADY.

There is a lady of an unusually adventurous spirit providing amusement for the public in Germany. She has gone through a variety of characters in male* costume with eminent success, acting successfully as groom, coachman, valet, &<\, to -various employers, giving perfect satisfaction, and obtaining excellent -characters, her masters never suspecting her sex. Th« late war roused nobler ambitions within her. Prefixing the title " von" to her name, and donning the blue coat with an iron cross upou it, Miss Bertha Weiss made herdebut as a wounded Prussian officer. Passing through various towns she enlisted everywhere the sympathy of the inhabitants, who received her as an • honoured guest, and she is said even to have made some havoc amongst young ladies.' hearts. Unfortunately she was found out when her success was at its height, and, placed before a tribunal, was sentenced to several" months imprisonment as a' punishment for her masculine aspirations. Sio perfectly had she acted her role, however, that up to the moment when the verdict was pronounced she found advocates in the press to defend her manhood. The imprisonment has not moderated the lady's ambition, for, thou,gh only shortly reltiiicied, she has turned up once more in the very last place where a fema'e would be looked for, viz., in a monastery near Breslau. The' prior, declares that she came to him with so truly penitential an air, disguising her sex so idmirably, that he could not find it in his heart to refuse her. ."She has lived among the monks undiscovered, her noviciate being a severe one ; yet she underwent all the rules of the order with the fortitude of an ascetic up to

the last moment. Tired, however, at last of the monotony of conyentual life, she gave the monks the slip after a four months' visit, disclosing her sex only after hep departure. — " Pall iMall Gazette."