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Show WOMAN'S SECRET IS REVEALED BY DEATH Two Immigrant Girls Form Industrial Partnership; One Passes as a Man. CHICAGO. Fb. 7. For seven years Ida Weiniteln lived as Benjamin Roscn-stein Roscn-stein ami posed as the husband of Pauline Pau-line Rosenstein. "Benjamin" died today, and the physician and nndert.-! ker who were called in discovered the secret. "Benjamin'' wn? years old. It was an industrial innrriaee, according accord-ing to the aurvivjng: member of the strange partnership. Th-' pa ir met in the Jewish shelter in New York City seven years ago soon after their arrive in America from Russia, their (native land. Ida was posing 3S a. man even then, and had been employed as a house servant ser-vant In the honip of a wealthy New York family, according to "Mrs." Rolens te'.n. Ida had been unable to earn enough to live on working as a womaai In a New York sweat shop. Pauline went to Tetvoit a nd corresponded corre-sponded with Ida. Finally the pair decided de-cided to join fon-es. 7da went to T.'etmit and obiHined work in a furniture factory as a packer. Pauline kept house. During Dur-ing the next few years i!iev lived in Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Cleveland. Younk.'stow(5, Ol.lo. and Sharon. Pa., finally co'iiinc to Chicnco. In Cbb-aero Ida, or Benjamin, as she was known to her business associates, waw a verv capable foreman in a shirt factory. About a year ao she coni -acted i iihf-rri jiT;!a. |