An unusual broadside advertising a bevy of “wonders of nature in the flesh” at the Momence Theatre in Momence, Illinois. The advertised acts include Forest Layman, the armless wonder; Lady Betty, England’s foremost astrologist; Chester Cleo-Smith (who had brains apparently); Elma Von Lind, the three-legged girl; musician Larry Benner; a blind automobile drive; and most prominently, the Parisian sensation Victor/Victoria.

“So many questions are asked me concerning my condition, that I shall attempt, in a general way, to answer them in the following:

I was born in Poland, City of Warsaw, in the year 1902, coming to this country at the age of twelve. My home being in New York City. I was born of normal parents and was considered a normal girl, until after my fourteenth birthday, when it was discovered that the fuzz that was on my right side of my face had become coarse hair and I must shave, also having one breast on my left, and my right being flat and hairy. My mother became much alarmed and called in our family physician, who after a thorough examination pronounced me the most complete union of male and female in the one body he had ever had the privilege of examining. He also announced further that I should have been born twins, one boy and one girl, but nature in her own way had united the two sexes in one anatomy. Other doctors examining me pronounced me to be a half man and half woman or a Hermaphrodite or Maphrodite. Now I am simply on exhibition for what I look like and not what I am a peculiar looking person. having the appearance of a woman on one side while the other is that of a man, having both sexes, having no use of the male sex. Thereby making me more of a woman than a man. Many people offer me their sympathy, while I appreciate the spirit in which it is given, I do not seek it, as am well and happy, and after all, that is all that matters”