down on a jagged piece and I got a long nasty, but not deep cut. I stood up with blood running down my leg. Irene started to scream, but I told her to run for Dr. Carson a lady doctor a short way up the beach, and I streaked for the cottage and mother. She acted quickly, put an old quilt on a bed and cut all the bottom of my bathing suit off. By that time Dr. Car- son arrived, she gave me a hypo to quiet me, then a local anesthetic to deaden the pain as she had to put some stitches in to keep the cut closed. Then she sat by the bed talking quietly to mother waiting for me to go to sleep. But the hypo just made me drowsy and I laid there listening. I heard her say, "There are queer coincidences in life and this seems to be one of them.

Mother said, "What do you mean".

"Well I like to read dectective stories, women are not supposed to like them, but I do. I am odd anyway. The plot in one I was reading when Irene came running was based on the murderer being a woman who was em- loved as man. Then I come here to sew up Jean a girl that I know quite well, and find a boy. Is he Jeans twin or what is the explanation?"

Mother said, 'There is a reason but I suppose you think it is awful of me to bring Jean up as a girl". "Perhaps not. You are a sensible woman, and likely have a good reason for it. Then I just told you I was odd, and I have ideas of my own". So mother explained the whole history.

Dr. Carson said, I think you did the right thing. If Jean was a different sort of boy who hated dresses and was not adapted to a girl's life it would have been different. But she seems happy and contented, and it is not such an awful thing these days to be a girl like it was in grandmothers time. People still have a lot to learn about variations in the percentage of sex, but they are slowly learning that a man especially or a woman can be largely of the other sex. We doctors see a lot of that sort of thing. I have two men pat- ients, good fathers and well known. They are as mas- culine as they make them but they completely are feminine at times and love to dress and act as women. I have seen both of them. There is nothing wrong at all, if they could not dress they would almost have a mental upset it is so important to them. I know men,

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