She was always very neat in dress, fastidious in
regard to shirts and ties, and wore a long-waisted coat to
disguise the lines of her figure. She was married twice in
America, being divorced by the first wife, after a union lasting
ten years, on the ground of cruelty and misconduct with chorus
girls. The second wife, a chorus girl who had been previously
married and had a child, was devoted to her "husband." Both wives
were firmly convinced that their husband was a man and ridiculed
the idea that "he" could be a woman. I am informed that De Raylan
wore a very elaborately constructed artificial penis. In her will
she made careful arrangements to prevent detection of sex after
death, but these were frustrated, as she died in a hospital.
In St. Louis, in 1909, the case was brought forward of a young
woman of 22, who had posed as a man for nine years. Her masculine
career began at the age of 13 after the Galveston flood which
swept away all her family. She was saved and left Texas dressed
as a boy. She worked in livery stables, in a plough factory, and
as a bill-poster.
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