Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-04-18
Too Big-Hearted to Live.

Too Big-Hearted to Live.
DIME MUSEUM MANAGER TALKS ABOUT
FAT woMEN-THEIR EARLY DEATHS
LARGELY OWING TO LACK OF EXER-
CIsE-FAIR AND FAT, BUT SELDOM
FORTY
"They all go off in the same way" OBJ
served the man who started the first dime
museum in the Bowery to Journal re-.
porter yesterday. Scarcely has woman
reached size that draws crowds to see
her, when the old man with scythe steps
in and mows down your fat freak, not to
speak of your profits.
FATTY degeneration of the heart the
doctors call the cause of their death, and
they tell me that the adipose matter-is
that right" inquired the exhibitor OF
Natures whims, ''is deposited not only
under the skin, but on the delicate mem
branes that form the valves of the heart,
as well as around the orilices of the val
yes themselves.
"Everything looks prosperous. The
brass band in the second story window is
blowing away for dear life. The ticket
seller can scarcely handle the dimes that
are flowing in. The proud owner of the
six hundred pounds of female loveliness
is the picture of health and resiness, when
1ap!--one of the valves shuts to and stays
shut"
Pausing moment to breathe a sigh
that nearly knocked over the living skel.
eton, who, standing by, was listening to
the dangers he had no share in, the speak
er continued 1.-THE trouble with all the
fat women that exhibit themselves is that
they don't take exercise. They go to the
museum in the morning and there they
sit all day and half the night. They new
err move unless it is to walk to the near
est restaurant that has contracted for
their meals. If they would only move the
rest of their bodies half as vigorously as
they move their Jaws they'd keep in good
health without reducing their weight,
There's Hannah Battersby, for example.
who was the heaviest of them all. Not a
day passed but that she walked certain
distance; the consequence is che is living
now, hale and hearty, at fifty years of age.
"But can't drum it into Others" con-
tinued the Snowman, regretfully. that
they should follow her example, and the
consequence is that every now and then
I have to hire four or five carpenters at
IS day for week to build the collins
for them.
"The last one of the show fat women to
die" went on the speaker, twas Jessie
Waldron. She was only twenty years old,
over six feet in height and really weighed
400 pounds, though of course her show
weight was greater. Two years ago she
was in Bunnell's Museum at Coney Island.
Jesse Reed, who had charge of the curios-
tiles in the museum, fell in love with her
and she reciprocated with the full weight
of her young affections. They were mar
ried and one child blessed the union. A
month ago the family went to Buffalo, N.
Y, where Jesse was to exhibit herself.
She died there suddenly on Tuesday last,
and was buried yesterday in Evsrgreens
Cemetery, Long Island.
"Poor GIRL" said the museum man sad.
ly, "she was of the kindest disposition.
and so good natured that every one loved
her On her monument should be inscrib-
ed, s'She laughed and grew fat"
"The death of Blanche Gray went on
the necrologst, twas even more sudden.
Blanche weighed $50 pounds, and was
only seventeen years of age when she met
David Mo ses. Moses evidently saw in her
the promised land, for he proposed to her
and was accepted. The happy pair started
on their wsdding trip with the most bril-
liant prospects, which were enhanced to
Moses by the salary of $25 week drawn
by his better half. In Baltimore, on the
26sh of last October, the cruel fate that
seems to Overhang all woman beyond a
certain avoirdupois overlook Blanche and
left Moses a lonely widower.
"Annie Woods, surnamed the Beauti-
full Fat Woman" concluded the museum
proprietor, sadly, reached only the age
of seventeen, although she boosted of
400 pounds of charms before she was cut
off. A colored fat woman named Fannie
White, travelling with the Nathan show,
in Pullman car, fell asleep and never
woke up again. 1t was annoying to the
car CON pany. for they had to take off the
roof of the car-but think we told you
enough to prove to you that life is doubly
uncertain to fat women, and 1 must now
leave you to change the spots on that
chap upstairs from Mexico. "-Neao York
Journal.