The Republican journal., 1877-09-13

things comfortable all around. with the
exception, perhaps, Of two lone WomeI
who had lost a treasure that could not b(
rtplautd.
Brief Account of Maine Giantess.
From Wide Awake for September
Many Of the readers of the Wide Awake have
doubtless seen Tom Thumb and his little wife aut
friends Not so many Of them. perhaps, have seer
persons who are as much larger than average
human beings as Tom Thumb is smaller Shall
tell them about a woman Of unusual stature. who
ONCE lived in the State Of Maine She may be
living at this time, for it was not many years agC
that saw her. and she was then not mdde-agcd
aud is She was somewhat sensitive regard hcI
remarkable size, perhaps it would be as we'll no
% give her real name, but simply to call her Sylvia
since she was bora and brought up in the country
v hen | saw Sylvia. she probably not NOR,
| than thirty-tiye years old. She must have beel
then nearly seven feet tall, and said to have
grown Il little within a year or two before My
young friends will better realize what it is to be
nearly seven feet high, when tell them that wheI
| Sylvia sat in highbacked rocking-chair in which
if tail man sat his head would Just reach to tht
top of tile back. You could 90 behind her and pu
your fingers across the top and under her arm; o.
Shc could easily sit i'll it, with her elbow resting
| on the back and her hand supporting her cheek
as other peODlp lean an elbow ON the arm of tht
chair III which they sit,
Vet Sylvia had been Il very little baby-evcI
smaller than usual She was one of twins au(
thcv were both 50 very small that in the nirht
when the babies were in bed with their papa. VIII,
| was not at all large man, he turned over in his
srep and crushed one of the poor babies to deatl
| without knowing it.
| done that he was more careful in tiiture or the
mother took the precau1ion to save her other baby
bv puttinr if 10 slnep ont of his reach for SYLVIA
the small twin that was left. managed to ge
through her babvhood without being mashed b\
her papa She was alwavs small Of her are and ,
delicate little thing and did not hntin tn take on
unusual pronortions until She WIS AZ Old as othr,
girls arc wien they cease growing. Instead o
| stopping when She was seventeen or eighteen wear,
old rs most girls do. she simply kent on prnwinu
and growing. for ten or a dozen wears longer ius,
as fast as children grow She was never fat o,
plump but had the rather mcagre habit which
| children have who grow rapidly.
| When She WAS twenty two or three wears old
| she fIl on the lev door step and broke her arm
The doctor who set it was aStonishcd to find tha
| the bones were vet soft like a child's instead o
firm and hard! like a crown persons and this soft
ness OF the bones seemed to continue until sh,
stopped growing
Sylyia's Ulrrrlt, vert. poor uroulc and ll TN,
time she vas d woman lhev were growing Old
and Me was obliged TO do something for their sup
port as we'll as her own She could not work any
faster or earn adv more becaus, of her superio
Sze iii fact it is not strange if She did not feel s.
| strong and well as other Girls since so much o
her force went toward growing She used to go
ont among the villagers and towns people ;lnl
nurse sick people and take care of little vo,l1l.
babies She was 4 very careful aud tender nurse
and | have heard it said that whcn she was hold
inc Il little baby instead of taking it on her arm
ac nst nTu us 40 SIn l1i1 ana II b,.r hand.
with its head toward her iuger-ends and its little
tect along her wrist and In this grtut. warm. Low
inc hand, aS in Il coy cradle the little creatur,
would 90 comfortably to sleep without IA though
of how exceedingly fanny il vas. To be thus liter
ally held in the hollow of ones hand
/ Everybody lovrd SYLVIA not because She was d
great woman but because she was ALWAYS kind
and gentle. and helpful: and even the rude BOYS il
the Street, Who were sometimes tempted to shou
and ierr at her because it was so droll to see a w0
man 50 much larger than any man in town. wer,
generally polite to Her: partly because they kncW
how easily She could pick them up and toss them
over the fence if she chose, and partly. PERHAPS
because most of Them remembered hoW Kind An,
patient she had been when some OF their friend.
| were sick or when their mothers needed hclp
Once SYLVIA went to help Il tarmrr's wifi. ,ybo
had more work on her hands than she could d,
alone sylvia wa~ NOT ouly handy aud faithful
lint sh,. was hv This tImr unlslI:1iv stronr anl
canobj,. Of doinu hard work One evening sh,
had brou ~trIiiin.s thp milk into bis, pans in tn,
| ,itrbrl-thry usrJ him heavy brown carthpr
paus NOT ottru seen in cities-and She started +,
cnrry tbcm down cellar So She took M a nan
bnLiiu,r uinn or fem nnrhans twelve nuorts of nov
| ,,iii 51,,l v-.,,t toward tbn COLLAR door
| Znu, tbis was m oIj f,shionr1 Kitchen an,
hal in thn rnilrr nvurhnnI rows nf bnoirs Irh;rI
1,'r, ,n1lr IL MIA lnn.r nnlps for thn nur,osn -
| Ir,;rr 'a,,,los ,u,nnl-ins n,,l ,thnr tlinr, Nv
| l;. ,,ti,,In ,.nrn nhIi,nd IN stand in rbnirs !,
.i1:- ~ r.,rh thnsn nnI.s and tLn dr-in,r a1,nlr
| v.,rn nuit. out of fine way above paon,u's heads
Rnt sI.lyia yns not M 1r,linnrv wonlan mn a.
tIoro ,'rn ot his timr mo- nnIes in thn hool,s sb1
f+ ,hn,,+ +bnn, ,n,l a., iiIn ,,.soI +n, ,.Inso :,
onG i r,n~bt ii her hnir nnI hrLI her fnst Th[
nnor ,von,9n conld NOT raise her hard to hnr hen(
| r. AK bnrsnlf hpcnuse hnth hands ,ynrn steady
IN N. rrnot nan su-i,n,nin,r f,ll ot Mil, sht
,,,I ,1 ,ra1 ,,,nvn bcr bnaa bHo and fr,r3r,
~ ~. a1,l ,lnhitch II bnconsn snch shol,y d rouI,
';m' +bn niII, an liz 1,icn rh;ta kitnn II, wv
irh;h ih,;i aL hoI inst scnmrnI. AMI +}nro ,,,,s ~,
"a,' H., harsnlf IL thn house at tbn lima ns th,
t na w.. , in +b Inr, ,.arJ ,r;+-' II; att1 ~
irltI We @ ~ ,u pr iu iiI o''.lo 'i'
NJ, ' ~ ~ w III -, ~ at,,IJ AZ ~. ~ .+II; III -I w
% ~ rn1 nc.as;onaIlI, ;y,n f;,t o"u t", bai,
",.'' i Ill. II, , .,1,f1 sin,t ,,art, l,I ,;+h hf r.
, Ioi mn Nv M r and bor bo '.it nt+nn ~,
i["'' 'rod n boliinr n,bnU+ s,;1Iin[, boa,
~ Z g;II Mr, +I7, hit M li i,.'o 1 ~ j. j.
"l VI Srl;a WAS Ehara+oJ i t ,Lp' n
loie l,oni hc pain,u
r. r. 1,nthnr Mil, n,ii disnornrnd hnr .d nl;,hf
III III lpi aJ 90 W n
=, l. IT., , l,u,r tina NJ, t,.,, Nv Ia f,.t a ,..
;h ,H nnt bn IA nnt lnnv what t 10 49, an,
,''U Ii, won't tn tbn nni,rlhn t " onm III H. @
:i th;i; J.. 1; ~ 'c : li q. H+ i
M.i,"ut fr3 ho b, 'ii'' >"
''h,n5 ,'i1 m D'i pa',, ~ L,, bo,r
IN som Nv nf sTlvia and hr II ana scnt =,
eont to snn iar and trv to bira bor to comn tn hi
,,7nsnpn, IN Rn,tnn ~ - nl,rinsitv Nn,r 1,an
VIVA VA i,,st ~ nynrsa tn bnin,r sarod at as ro
- would h. ba oo,,I1 NOT ho57r + ho so+ ~, f
herand making remarks about her broad shoulders
"P R ncL h rgo manu. SO a. tfSa se 1 renscu S o
not obtain by her poorly bad labor many It'll
comforts which she knew they needed; and more
over she had greater expenses than most eountr
o har s,op =. tN An bn & ss d "l vaoun
t,tn ii1,,i i, +,lI;,,. NM ~ - MI, .li,. L