The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 13

I i I i THE ft EW lS JJ Wu(B Si Si ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1914. 4 '1 5 fcJ 9 VV i S- A i 2 frequenting dance halls and was flirting with other women. From that day forth Marie was besieged by sympathetic neighbors, who told her her husband was lazy and worthless. 'you don't catch me going to wrork every day like you do." one of the women told the wife.

"My husband supports me. It's all I can do taking care of my. house and my seven children." 'I have no children." said Marie. "Besides, my husband helps me do a great deal of the housework. He does all the heavy work.

He is a good husband. I have.no complaint to make. I love my husband, and besides, it none of your business. Get out of my house and never let me catch you speaking to me again. The outburst caused the neighbor to talk to other neighbors and soon they began wagging their woraa.ru I decided to become a.

rnin would be the beet way to protect myself and Miss White. Accordingly I bought a suit of men's clothes. I became a man. I remained a man until the Judge commanded I should be a woman." MAN AND CHUM WERE NURSES. The record of Miss Anderson Is without an equal in the United States.

Frequently it has been recorded that women of low character have posed as men, and women have posed as men so they could be soldiers. Never before had it been recorded that women of good education, such as Miss Anderson has, have become men for any considerable period and played the role so successfully. The affair started in Cleveland, Ohio, soon after the two girls left Provident Hospital. Chicago, and started out to get work as trained 1 I 1 IS 11 LzJ Ml 1 I fbr r5- 3 jmJ I I JP -y I "I 7 4 pRA ANDERSON in men's and women's attire, in several poses. To the right of center is Dorothy Kleinowsky, the "Second Wife," 3 J' 3r i -J i -JJt5 i j- lj! 4A How I Ooa Aacieroji Tells 1 hs Fooled til' Posing as.

a. 4 it- Miss Cora Anderson ot Mllwau kee, is again wearing women's clothing and is playing a woman's part in the 'Wisconsin city where she was arrested after marrying another woman under Wisconsin's eugenic law, successfully representing to Wisconsin's marriage license officials her mannish-ness. For thirteen years Cora Anderson was a man. She went tinder the name of Ralph Kerwinieo and was supposed to be the husband of Mary White, known to the -world as Mrs. Ralph Kerwinleo.

Air would -have been well had Ralph been content to live with Mary White, but if he was going to be a man he thought it would be well to be a villain of a. man, and pretty soon word was passed around the firesides of Milwaukee that Ralph Kerwinleo was a bigamist. "He" had married Dorothy Kleinowsky. whom "he" met at a dance hall. Mary White got jealous of the second wife, and that is why Ralph Kerwinleo is again Cora Anderson.

Thirteen years In men's clothes had caused a great change in the point of view of Cora Anderson. Deprived of the usual feminine attractions of life, she learned to like men's way of living. While she started on her career as a sensitive female of the species, loving to make Battenberg. she developed into a masculine edition of the human race, passionately fond of frequenting poolrooms jnd barber shops. How Cora started on her career she told a correspondent for this paper after she had been discharged In the Milwaukee Police Court on a charge of impersonating a man.

The Judge only admonished her to wear women's clothes in the future. Over in the Civil Court the Judge annulled her marriage to Dorothy Kleinowsky and told her she could try her luck in the matrimonial sea again. "I became a man," declared Cora Anderson, "because I needed work and because my chum. Marie White, and myself were constantly being subjected to annoying attentions from men. I wanted to protect Miss White and myself.

I have Indian ancestry and consequently my skin is dark. Because cf that I was accosted frequently by men. They seem to pay more attention to women with dusky skin than to blondes. "Men as a rule are cowards. They insult women in a disgraceful manner when the women are without male escort.

When a man comes along, no matter how runty and insignificant, and takes the woman's part, men respect the i -t-f ri 1 the separation he went to a danc hall and met Dorothy Kleinowsky "It was love at first sight on mj part," says "and we be. came engaged. I grew tired of th life at home and told 'Ralph must marry me at once or It wai all off. He went out and procure! the certificate required by the eu genie law and we; were married Edward J. Burke, Justice of th peace.

"I did not know until just befor 'Ralph' was arrestfd that 'he' wa not a man. and it almost broke heart, but I determined to stand 'him and be 'his' chum if I couli rot be his wife." "Miss Marie "White told my em ployer my secret in revenge for mi leaving the house," said "Ralph," "but my employer was game an never gave the story away for tw months not until Miss White, find Ing my employer was not going do anything tipped it off to the po lice. "But no one can find that I hav done anything wrong." Kerwinieo. whn arrested charged with disorderly conduc because she masqueraded as a man pleaded not guilty. Turning to th arresting officer, who had often seer her, the Judge asked the follow, ing questions: "Did this woman, as far as rot know, wear male attire for im moral purposes? Did you ever se her do anything vulgar?" said the patrolman.

While in male attire, how did the act?" the Judge continued. "Xlke a perfect gentleman," wai the policeman's answer, much the amusement of the spectator! who filled the police court room 1 Milwaukee. And this is the verdict of alraesi every third man Jn the city wh knew Ralph Kerwinieo well an! never for a moment suspected thai "he" was a woman. After hearing many more wit. neeses Judge Page could not fin! the charge sustained and this "girl-man who sat eo composedly through the trial was allowed go free with the vmmand that sh should resume her woman's dreai in the future.

Eugenic Law lowed any man to insult Marie White. She learned to fight and could give a good account of herself in contests with men. She worked with the men and joked with them. Now that she is through associating with them she has a poor opinion of man in general, says she never would marry a man, now that she knows so much about them." She thinks women are much nicer than men and cannot understand how any woman could fall in love with a coarse creature known as tfce man. In Milwaukee the couple rented a flat and began their strange life.

So regular were the habits of both that the neighbors thought they were the most model couple they had ever seen. Kerwinieo at first came home regularly and the two enjoyed each other's society the fake husband. She saw eligible men marry and pass her by because she was supposed to be married woman. One day she called Kerwinleo into the kitchen and demanded that "he" wash tho dishes. The husband refused.

She then argued that "Ralph" don woman's clothes and appear for what she was. The husband laughed and refused. "You're growing coarse and mannish," complained the wife. "I know it," smiled Kerwinieo. "Tour character will be spoiled." said the wife.

"Last night your clothes smelled of tobacco was from being out with some men who smoked." protested Kerwinieo. "1 got their tobacco smoke on my clothes." The wife kept on complaining. The neighbors had been talking. They told Marie her husband was Then Kerwinieo's associates invited him to go with them to the poolroom. Many times she was Induced to go to the barber shop with men, and though she never submitted to a shave, she would sit around the barber shop and chat with men who had real whiskers.

It was supposed she shaved herself at home, if anyone ever thought about that at all At the poolroom she became a favorite, playing a good, heady game and winning often. One night after she came home Miss White met her at the door in a towering rage and gave her a terrific scolding for remaining at the poolroom so late. Kerwinieo liked to play the part of a man. but the part of the wife was growing irksome to Miss White. After several years she began to realize she was growing old in -company with head3 toward h-ar when she passed to go to work.

While she defended her husband openly, in secret she had many sad. sad moments. Sh-s wept, and Kerwinieo. man like, did not like weeping women. That brought on the final row and Kerwinieo left the house.

to return. The neighbors gossiped awhile, and then other scandals arcse to- keep their tongues busy and Marie had peace of mind again. She asked her acquaintances to call her Miss White, and although all thought she was a married woman, they acceded to her request. The big separation was six inoaths ago. People scanned the papers for news of the divorce, but there was none.

Marie evidently was not going to get a divorce. RaJph had long quit working as a bell boy and was a clerk in a store. One night latt winter, shortly after nurses. They were registered at several places, but their calls were few and their money ran out. Then they raised enough money to get to Cleveland, where they hunted for any kind of work.

In Cleveland they were not employing women. After Miss Anderson: became Ralph Kerwinleo she went to the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland and found employment as a bell boy. She was very adept and was a fa-orite. She earned tips readily, but feared to remain there because she had appeared in Cleveland as a woman and feared detection. With her supposed wife she went to Milwaukee, where she went to work as a bell boy in the Plankington Hotel Soon Kerwinieo began to regard himself as a man.

She looked upon herself as the natural pro-Wder for the home and never al ELECTRICITY SUPPLANTS COOL RANGES IN COOKING OPERATIONS ON THE UNITED STATES BATTLESHIP TEXA! mesa galley five cooks and a head cook are required each watch. In the officers galley there are four cooks, one for each officer's mesa. similar manner the temperature can be brought up to the proper value in frem twenty-five to thirty minutes. Only about six minutes 13 required to start the broiler. Particular care is exercised to procure economic operation of the ranges by concentrating the cocking on a few ranges so that the inefficiency of intermittent operation is voided.

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