Benjamin Franklin's Great-Grandniece Is "Up" on Science
The Story. Dark, slender Gita Cartaret of Atlantic City had "a sound endocrine constitution." She wore her hair not shingled but shorn, wore mannish clothes (from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation.
A glib female novelist, with all the...
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