Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-18
aroMATo.SOsED" JANE.
An Astounding Female PhenOms
enOn in Philadelphia.


Good graciousl You newspaper
men are worse than Old Scratchl' and
the fat old woman smoothed out the
folds of her well-worn alapaoa dress,
rocked violently in her dilapidated
red rocking chair, and glared %iereely
at the Mercury reporter. Who told
you about my daughter, aud how did
you come to hunt US up2 Indeed
you shan't see her, or hear one word
about her from me-that you shan'll
You'll spread it all around, and then
we'll have all the old showmen just
%runnin' and runnin' TO the house, and
they cant be kept away with boiling
water, either. just like when we
lived in Newark, some old maid, just
as bad as a newspaper, went blabbin'
around about my Jane, and the old
man had to club them museum and
side show fellers away from the house.
They all wanted my tomato nosed
jane as they called her. | don't
want that trouble to 60 through again,
for my only daughter shall never be
exhibited along with a lot Of fat wo-
men, stripped naked, tlttooed
men and bald headed monkeys"
After the visiting journalist had con
WINGED the old lady that under no
circumstances he would make public
where she lived, and soothed her with
about six "stiokfulls" of O~iceronian
eloquence, she consented that her
remarkable daughter should be seen
and Jane was called. This young lady
is now in her twentieth year. She is
natural in all respects, except her
peculiar shaped nose. This feature of.
her face is the exact counterpart of a
large Jersey tomato, and, singular to
say, is OF a bright red color. In other
respects she is quite handsome,
possessing beautiful dark hair and
eyes and q comely, well developed
figure. Her red, terribly misshapen
nose standing out prominently among
its pretty surrounding features, aud
above an especially lovely mouth, gives
the young girl a most unique appear
ance And she certainly would be a
fortune to the American Snowman.
Once seen, she will never be forgot
ten. This awful afliction has made
the young lady exceedingly sensitive,
and she very seldom goes out of doors.
The neighbors, however, have had
occasional glimpses of her, and she is
now the talk of the ward in Philadel-
phia in which she resides.
yes" the old lady replied, in an
swer to natural inquiries; my Jane
was born in September, and we then
lived on a tomato farm in Jersey. We
had a little canning establishment on
our place, and all that season we did
nothing but can and can tomatoes. l
and peeled, and cut and cut
till | was just sick of the
sight of them red things. We were
poor and my old man and me did most
Of the work He'd do the sealing of
the cans, and I'd do the preparing of
the tomatoes. Then, towards the
part of the summer, a big basket
of tomatoes fell down on me off a
shelf whese We used to stack them,
aud nearly scared me to death.
When Jane was born We thought
she had an awful funny red nose, but
my old man said it was because she
was so young, and that it would
straighten out and become all right as
SIZE grew older. But it never has"
the old lady with a deep sigh.
Jane has been examined by a mum
Der of celebrated physicians, and
nothing can be done to improve the
shape of her nose. 1t has been the
unanimous opinion of the medical
fraternity consulted, that an operation
would only make matters worse, and
that the young lady would have to
live and die as she was born.