WOMAN'S SECRET
WORKED AS MALE CHEF FOR
14 YEARS
NEW YORK, November 16.
A message from Oyster Bay says that not until her death was the secret revealed which a' chel to a socially prominent family had concealed for 14 years, namely that, though working as a man under the name of Alfred Grouard, she was really a woman. Moreover, her determination to keep her secret cost her her life, as she resisted every attempt to provide medical attention. It was disclosed after her death that she had been a victim of diabetes, a condition that might easily have been controlled by the use of insulin.
The employer, who engaged a .short stocky chef without references because "he" impressed him as an efficient type of man, declared that Grouard was a faultless servant, having apparently only two interests in life —cooking and religion. Grouard never left her employer's estate for 14 years, never received a letter, and never had a caller.
When her health failed last year Grouard repulsed her employer's physician hysterically, but her sex was discovered while she was in a coma.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 13
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184WOMAN'S SECRET Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 13
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