San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-15
THE LARGEST LARGE LADY.
..,.tsI. Of Female Flesh that was Bound
for Museum.
Philadelphia Press.

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Philadelphia Press.
A GREAT shadow will DO lifted from
rronkford this evening ut 8 o'clock.
The 1872 pounds of flesh that make up
the ponderous anatomy of Hannah
Bsttersby, the famous fat woman, will
be moved, in q strong seated car, to
New York, to fill = four weeks, and
possibly an entire winters, engagement
In a Bowery museum of ,curiosities.
Like all large bodies, Mrs. Battersby
moves slowly, and was beginning to-
mako her preliminary arrangements
last night whom called upon BY Press
reporter, to whom ssshe 'bade, q noun.
famous adieu. l..,D,t,V -.
THE FAT woMAN's SHADOW SPOUSE
The appointments of the fat womnap's
comfortable little home on Unity street,
Frankfort, reiadapted throughout for
her enormous size in the way Of doub-
le,seated, big-legged, chairs, substan-
tisl sofas and strong settees. The
house itself has solid appearance, and
with its iwell-braced stairways,. stout
floor joists and wide doorwsys, seem
especially intended for its elephantine
mistress, who, until the present time,
has spent her winters there in domes-
tic happiness with her husband, the
living Skeleton. That bag q bones,
however, has unfortunately fattened
cut of the skeleton line of business,
and is simply very small half of his
heavy spouse, whom he adores with all;
the ardor. that his present avoirdupoisi
of 100 pounds will admit of. 81 have.
been home just four weeks" said Mrs.
Battersby, as she came witha smile and
waddle from the kitchen to the cos
dining-room, "and have had one of
the most successful seasons 'on the
road that has been known in the show
business for years. 4 55sfI a ~
The reporter, with an inquisitive
thirst for knowledge, took trip around
the mountain of flesh, and arrived at
the starting point just as Mrs. Batters-
by sank, with quarter-ton grace, upon
4 long and wide settee, and in this posi-
ton her abnormal proportions were
we'll exhibited. (@ "a
The Living skeleton who had desert
ed his forge, where he superintends the
employment of couple of blacksmith's
helpers, had himself wheeled in the
house in his perambulator when made
aware of the fact that stranger was
visiting his wife. He seated himself
comfortably on the four inches of space
between his wife and the end of the
settee, and i'm mediately became invisi-
ble. A hand stretched forth in occa-
sional gesticulations, and voice that
seemed to come from the region OF the
big woman's stomach, were the only
evidences of his presenceswhile the in
terview lasted. 81
"When arrived at the West Phila-
delphia depot, on my return home four
weeks ago." said the fat woman, II had
hard work to squeeze out of the car
door, and then they had to open that
big sliding gate intended for the
passage of baggage-trucks, to let me
out of the place where the train stops.
I couldn't go out of the gate with the
small people"
No." said the voice on the off-side
of the monstrosity, "she couldn't, she
couldn't, and I'm glad of it. If my
life is spared I hope to catch up with
Hannah some day. I'm feeding up now.
Only $40 pounds behind her. Catch
ing up at the rate of pound day"
The fat woman smiled, and as two
hands appeared beside her in gesture,
the voice continued, "If L can't weigh
fifty nine pounds and be the champion
skeleton, I'm bound to be the champion
fat man of America, and We'll travel
together"
AN UNFoUNDED RUMoR. |..