St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-19
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BIG Ii lNNAH.
A Sensation Created by the Monster
Fat woman.

Big Hannah, the monster fat woman, will
be feature at the dime museum next week.
Big Hannah has created sensation wher-
ever she has gone. A correspondent writes
of her as follows:
The bill boards say Big Hannah is equal to
eight ordinary women. 1t is not so. Eight
ordinary women are eight ordinary women,
but Hannah is an extraordinary woman and
heaping up ordinary women as high as Jay
Gould's nerve never would make her.
To see that Hannah is no ordinary woman,
just W atch the countenance of the spectator
when her mountainous proportions first strike
the gaze. The immensely comes over you
with tLump. with a sharp. acute bump, that
sets the nerves tingling md rouses all the
latent curiosity. 1t makes the air vibrate and
throws the rays of the electric lights into
confusion. You have an irresistible impulse
to strike a square hee-and-toe gait aid walk
around her just to see how much there is of
her.
1t is not one of your halfway sensations
It IS a sensation as big as Hannah, yard
wide and all wool. 1t is a sensation like her
figure, big. Dubious AID bursting. Her fig
ure is great. 1t is immense.
1t is all there and little bit more. 1t flows
out in all directions ike the fleets of many
nations i'll a swelling tide. When Hannah
breathes it is ebb and flo ID tide in the Bar of
over the plains of Abraham. When she
speaks it is the music of the spheres tuning
for a concert by the full band.
When Lillian Russell appeared here in a
sailor suit the first row involuntarily clutched
the orchestra rail and half rose from their
seats. But the whole "Billee Taylor COM
pany in sailor suit couldn't hold a candle to
Hannah. In sailor clothes she could man
aye the navy of any nation except America,
but could sink that without half trying. As
Musette she would not be a success, but as
Yum Yum she could be osculated by eleven
Nankipo0s and they all have plenty of room.
Clara w SdOm in "NlnOn" created sen sa-
ton In this village. When she stood behind
the foot-lights the chorus might as well have
gone home.
But along side of Hannah. Clara Wisdom
is patch on the cheek of Bartholdis statue,
a dot on the sun. as mugwumps in ward
caucus, a mule in the board of trade She is
simply nowhere.
She is to Hannah as a baby's breath to a
double diapason calliope. card house to the
capitol, a log over Pumpkin creek to the
Brooklyn bridge, a satyr to Hyperion.
strawstack to Mount Blanc, Grover Cleveland
to Jim Blaine. She is left. She is distanced.
She is done up.
Hannah is a woman who would make her
mark wherever she fell. Seated On the Bull
garIan throne with a Siberian steppe for
footstool she would defy the car and all his
miniOnS to move her.
All this talk is called forth by Hannahs
shape, and the shape justifies the remarks.
1t is an uncommon shape. 1t is shape with
big s. One that bulges out and spreads
around an ordinary sized house in a way that
threatens to wipe off the wall paper and push
the plaster out into The next lot. 1t accommo-
dates itself to costume in way that puts
basting threads out of the question. Her
garments are hand-sewed and riveted round
the crown. There is a breadth of beam and
limitess expanse of expausenese about them
that cuts the breath short aud makes wink
ing lost art.
1t is shape with the grass cut in front.
1t is shape that asks no favors of royalty.
1t is an American shape with Texas annexed,
and that's what the matter with Hannah.