them were on at least vague sentimental terms with her. One day, Lilian Carver went to Boston. A few days later appeared the published statement in the newspapers of the county, to the following startling purport; sworn-to by "Lilian", by her parents, and by the pastor of her church-society, the Rev. Lyman W. Sweet. The latter had been taken into a secret that stirred the town to lively amazement and wrath:
"Having been known in North Haven, Me., (my birthplace and home for thirty years,) as a female, by the name of Lilian G. Carver, I do hereby publicly declare that I have been masquerading, and for more than ten years against my wishes. Force of habit, filial regard, and dread of the necessary sensation attendant upon such a step have prevented me from doing my duty; which now, as a Christian I undertake to do. My real name is Arthur Leslie Carver. I am a man, and since September this year, (1901) have dressed and have been known as such."
"Lilian's" Carver's degenerative traits were exclusively physical. They were invisible to the layman's notice, as departing much from a plump male type. There was no moral degeneracy whatever in question. The sexual organs were large and perfectly masculine. The sexual tendency was "passive." As Arthur L. Carver, the subject entered business life in Boston, as an employé, and is still in that occupation and city.
Instance.
A similar case occurred also in the State of Maine about the same date as the "Lilian Carver" one. After having been dressed, employed and known only as a woman during a respectable life, Sylvester Cole, a servant in a family in Vassalboro, had fallen in love with a fellow-servant, Georgiana Bernard. Therewith he disclosed his real sex, ceased to be "Maggie Cole", and was duly married to the young woman of his choice. Cole claimed that the secret of his sex was necessary for reasons of pecuniary kind; but that advantage was not cleared up, although a relative of wealth was named
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