not usually regarded as desirable chiefly on account of
practical convenience, nor even in order to make an impression on other
women, but because the wearer feels more at home in them. Thus, Moll
mentions the case of a young governess of 16 who, while still unconscious
of her sexual perversion, used to find pleasure, when everyone was out of
the house, in putting on the clothes of a youth belonging to the family.

Cases have been recorded of inverted women who spent the greater
part of their lives in men's clothing and been generally regarded
as men. I may cite the case of Lucy Ann Slater, _alias_ the Rev.
Joseph Lobdell, recorded by Wise (_Alienist and Neurologist_,
1883). She was masculine in character, features, and attire. In
early life she married and had a child, but had no affection for
her husband, who eventually left her. As usual in such cases, her
masculine habits appeared in early childhood. She was expert with
the rifle, lived the life of a trapper and hunter among the
Indians, and was known as the "Female Hunter of Long Eddy." She
published a book regarding those experiences. I have not been
able to see it, but it is said to be quaint and well written. She
regarded herself as practically a man, and became attached to a
young woman of good education, who had also been deserted by her
husband. The affection was strong and emotional, and, of course,
without deception. It was interrupted by her recognition and
imprisonment as a vagabond, but on the petition of her "wife" she
was released. "I may be a woman in one sense," she said, "but I
have peculiar organs which make me more a man than a woman." She
alluded to an enlarged clitoris which she could erect, she said,
as a turtle protrudes its head, but there was no question of its
use in coitus. She was ultimately brought to the asylum with
paroxysmal attacks of exaltation and erotomania (without
self-abuse apparently) and corresponding periods of depression,
and she died with progressive dementia. I may also mention the
case (briefly recorded in the _Lancet_, February 22, 1884) of a
person called John Coulter, who was employed for twelve years as
a laborer by the Belfast Harbor Commissioners. When death
resulted from injuries caused in falling down stairs, it was
found that this person was a woman. She was fifty years of age,
and had appa