Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-05-19
MISS MILLY DE GRANVILLE.
The story OF the Famous Lady with the Iron
jaw as Told by Herself


jaw ns Told by HcrsciE
"My name is Milly De Granville I'm
twenty-three years old, and ] can lift 450
pounds dead weight with my teeth, I"
said the young lady with the iron jaw, as
she came forth smiling, after the per-
formance Mt Barnum's, to meet n reporter
of the New York World.
Fifteen minutes before the latter had
sat in mute astonishment while this
young woman, waved kitchen chair in
her teeth, or by the tip end of its back
held it at right angles to her comely
figure, while all the multitude applaud
ed. Now he stood alone in the presence
of fashionable young lady, with pretty
dimpled cheeks and large gray eyes,
that twinkled good naturedly beneath n
perfect garden of flowers in the shape of
n spring hat, and Which looked honestly
at the reporter as the above startling
announcement was made. The transition
from Greek statuary to Partisan vitality
was too sudden; the reporter stood
speechless.
"What you don't believe me See"
And the spring Bonnet bent down grace
fully, while with an incisive click set
of beautifully white and even teeth came
together on the back Of n mahogany
chair, which stralghtway was tossed high
up over the young lady's head, held
there moment, triumphantly returned
to its legs, and then complacently sat
down upon by Miss De Granville.
"Well, will you,' said the reporter,
curiosity overcoming finer instincts,
"allow me to inspect those remarkable
teeth ?"
"Of course" said Miss De Granville,
n beaming smile at the same time sup
plying the opportunity. 81 never -
with difficulty articulating through n
widely-opened mouth" called upon a
dentist in all my life and never had
moments toothache."
Accurately described, and without any
poetical reference to pearls, Miss DE
Granville's teeth are perfect, which, con-
sidering the fact that for the last six
years she has put them to such uncom-
mon uses as the lifting of water casks
and Shetland ponies, is somewhat re-
markable.
"Yes," unused the young lady, as the
reporter expressed this opinion. "My
teeth are pretty good, but it's not in
them that my strength mainly lies it's
here touching the back of her neck),
and here dropping her hand lower on
the spinal column) that I get the muscle.
1 tell you I'm awfully strong" Here
Miss De Granville paused, blushed, and
patted the carpet with little
foot and swung a fragile parasol in her
ieweled fingers. She didn't look like
Samson.
Do tell me how you ever came to
start in this remarkable line OF business"
said the reporter.
ooh, 5es. Well, you see, my mother
had-has still-a wonderful set of teeth.
Why, to this day she can bite q hickory
lut same as you would peanut. My
'ather never had the toothache, neither,
20 the day he died. When I was little
sirl 1 used to go round the house lifting
hings. That was in Canada; I was born
n Toronto. After while we moved to
Then ma got married
lgain, and went to Chicago to earn my
,wn living. I amt bit ashamed Of it,
ir. I used to be dining-room girl in
3arnum's Hotel in Chicago. Well, you
zee, the other girls used to know how
trong was, and I used to lift the chairs
n my teeth just to amuse them. One
lay the manager of the Alhambra came
o dine at the hotel, and caught me lift
ng one of the dining-room chairs :
Why, little girl, says he, 'you ought to
o into the theater.' So I asked him
0 take me, and he took me, and I went,
nd I've blessed him ever since.
"Then you've been very successfully"
Successful? Why, I should say SO.
'ou see D'Atalie, the man with the iron
NV, used to have it all to himself but,
{ course, when woman could do the
ame things it was a bigger card, and I
an lift more than D'Atalie could. He {
-as only little fellow, you know. But
)'Atalie is dead now, so we won't say
nything about him, and, besides, his +
'ife-the woman who used to fire off n |
lnnon on her shoulders, you KNOWS '
friend of mine, though she will never l
ONE to see me act 1t makes her think
10 much of poor D'Atalie, she says. G
es, continued the young lady, show |
lg her teeth, half sadly. And them /
le unaffectedly narrated her eventful =
fe since the time she lifted the dining a
,om chair in Chicago to the present il
oment, dwelling upon the astonish- p
ent of the South Americans at q re- S
mt visit she has paid that country. s
In concluding the interview, Miss De e
ranville said that she has always enjoy II
most excellent health, but has been Il
tely informed by doctor that a pain
casionally felt in her eyes is the re- O
1t of continued pressing upon the D
rves of her eye teeth, and that she o.
mrs she will eventually have to abandon o.
avy lifting. W
ST
A Queer Experiment.