his will ordered his son should be dressed in frocks until 14 years of age. A photo of the boy some months ago in a weekly showed him wearing a smart kne. length frock with fancy collar and cuffs, light sash, white socks and patent strap shoes, while his dark hair was out in a close bob. Altogether, a picture that would have charmed "Smart Kiddies Mother".

Yours truly, A Reader

Men Who Live Duplicate Lives

Dear Sir:

The ever-increasing pages of "London Life" have included re- cently a number of letters, psychologically valuable as well as of the greatest human interest, on the subject of female impersonation I think it is realized that not always is there in such cases much in the dual personality-such people do not lead double lives in the common and rather derogatory sense of the term. They are more accurately described as leading duplicate lives.

There is their ordinary everyday aspect, which their friends and acquaintances know well, and there is often another aspect, another personality known to few or no other persons. This duality takes many forms, but I am sure the mixture of male and female is more common than the unthinking person, unacquainted with modern psychology, is aware of.

Sometimes the female element is content with limited express- ion, as in those men who are content in corset wearing, like the late Sir Francis Lloyd, brilliant soldier, whose tightly corseted figure and high-heeled boots were a perpetual amazement to the troops he so galantly commanded.

There is another case of an Army officer, published in a Lon- don newspaper some time ago, in whom the duality was so strong that he spent half his life dressed as a women. The two person- alities were so utterly different that many people knew both Cap- tain X, the officer of a crack regiment, and Mrs Y. the smart society woman, without suspecting that they were one and the same.

Captain X had a stammer; Mrs. Y had a pleasant voice without an impediment. She had a complete wardrobe in a flat exclusively occupied by her and "she" had unusual artistic talents which were only developed when she was living in the personality of a woman.

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