Boy-girls

The recent discovery that it was a '6-year old boy, Henry Graeme, that had been a girl, Etta, the servant in a Brooklyn house finds its counterpart occasionally among the Mexican households in the SpanishAmerican regions of the United States. Cases in these regions are not infrequent of persons, male by sex, who all their lives have chosen to wear woman's clothes and to labor at those household vocations reckoned distinctly as woman's. Such a case is thus described by a visitor to New Mexico: to dine at a little plazita about twenty miles sotith of Santa Fe, my driver, an old-timer, called my attention to what seemed a strapping woman working the female servants of the wealthy old Mexican don's household across the way. This slab-sided,rather uns-ainly person, with coarse ures and a chin that suggested the razor, was attired in a calicó gown, wore gold ear -rings and had the hair braided behind. 'It's a man, euch as it is!' said the driver. All he has to say about his wearing of woman's togs is that when a boy his mother always dresser! him in girl's clothes, and he never learned to dress differently. "As he grew up he was set to work about the house with the women, where he is now treated with about the same sort of forbearance and contempt a 'squaw man' receives among the Indians. As I put it up, it was to get rid of being set to the hard, dangerous work of hording cattle and sheep when the Indians were bad in ;he territory that cowardly boys, growing up to be peons, virtually slaves to the wealthy Mexicans, chose ;o bo squaws and work with the women. You"ll find such cases now here and there in the Mexican towns and among the India n pueblos."