McGuire recounted how she was born to rich parents but her father drank, and died young. Her mother also died while she was a girl, and she went to live with a second cousin of her mother's, a watchmaker, who turned out to want favours in return for his "kindness".
They met, and McGuire started by saying how men make life impossible for women in the workplace, before revealing his secret.
The article was written by Mildred Meeker, an investigative journalist with an interest in working conditions for women, and it concerns "Daniel McGuire". McGuire sent Meeker a letter which led to the article.
I collect the US version of Pearson's Magazine under Frank Harris's editorship (1916-22). August 1918 issue includes an interesting piece of trans history, an article "Why I wear men's clothes" by an anonymous author. Excerpts to follow.
Readers are succumbing to its charms. Consensus is, it's wicked!
She must avoid such a rich diet.
*sings* Burnin' in a cybertruck, oh let me die, If I'm in a cybertruck, please let me die, You see a burning cybertruck In which I'm burnin' all to fuck You see that cybertruck? Just walk on by.
Maybe if it wasn't on the telly all the time people would have had more of an appetite for it?
Two friends of Frank Harris? Why, ambassador you are spoiling us!
