GIRL BRIDE AS COLLIER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8184, 27 July 1912, Page 9

GIRL BRIDE AS COLLIER

WORKED FOR TWO YEARS AS A MAN. FAINTING BETRAYS SEX. GLASGOW. After masquerading as a man tor two years, performing arduous tasks iu coal mines, machine and boiler shops, Alexandra Koglowska, a beaittiful young bride of twenty summers, who for six months has been employed in three manufacturing concerns, revealed her sex at her boaraing-house by simply fainting. Alexandra has earned from eight shillings to ten shillings a day as a coal miner in the Ohio fields. She has heated rivets for six shillings a day in a Philadelphia boiler-shop, and went out on strike with tho union boilermakers.

Sho got six shillings a day for doing a man’s work iu an Erie paper mill, and made as much as JE2 a week working overtime running a drill press in a manufacturing establishment. She got six shillings a day for driving mules in a Pennsylvania coal mine, a vocation she continued three months.

After going to America with her parents, Alexandra resided at Gary, Virginia, where she met George .Zeleski, with' whom she foil in love. The couple wore married before tho girl was sixteen years old. AVhen their first child died the HUSBAND BEGAN TO ACT QUEERLY. and a few weeks, afterwards disappeared, xbe wife believes tho baby’s death so affected the m.nd of her husband that he wandered away and lost his identity. To find her husband has been the task to which Alexandra set herself with energy and courage. She made every ctfort to locate him by inquiries addressed to all parts oi the United States, but without avail, and her worry brought ner down with illness. Her blonde hair suffered from the ravages of fever, and it was the fact that her hair was cut short that led her to adopt tho guise of 'mat in her travels to find her husband.

She played the part ot a man so well that until she tainted no one entertained a suspicion that she was a slim, well-moulded girl. She associated with her shopmates as an unobtrusive, mild-mannered fellow. Alexandra is still determined to search for her husband until she finds him, inspired by the belief that if he can bo found she can readily recall him from his second personality to his real self by his love for her, which sho feels has never abated.