Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
A FEMALE HERCULES.
She Can Lift a Thousand Pound Weight
and Walk or With a SAFE

and Walk or with a safe.
A qiiet, modest girl. of j. elium
height and slender. graceful figure,
dressed in SIMPLE brown dress.
frightened up only by narrow red
ribbon and tiny bow at the thro at,
chatting pleasantly away 10 her sit
or in her quiet room and now and
then interrupted b. the piercing voice
OF tame canary that is Nine. Veto
t'ina the female Hercules. who every
evening astonishcs the audience of Tie
En- ire Iheater with fca of her MR.
velous strength. For six years past
she has now been before the public as
"the strongest woman III the wor'd;''
she has astonished B .rlin and P .ris
audiences; has been Glorious III her
competition with many. Of he world $
| greatest athletes; is honorary member
and mcdalist Of the Central Athletic
Club # S'eitin; honorary member OF
the Bnda-Pesth Hercules Club; of the
Hercules Club. viefna; OF the CON-
pagnie Hercules Of Paris. and string
OF other athletic socie les.
How came it. our representative
asked. that you adopted your present
profession' Had you exceptions al
strength when young?'
No, not mt once; and when / was
| quite young was not stronger than
the average healthy child. was b I'm
at 5 rasbourg. aud after my father
died l went to my uncIe's. who was a
circus proprietor, and he ut once
began to train lie as circns rider
and performer on the trapt ze But
| my career as an acrobat came soon to
an end. for | fell from height of
forty feet while peri orming and ever
since l have the greatest dislike to
trapeze performances. Luckily
only broke the bridge of my nose in
the accident and therefore / was in
no way impeded from beginning to
train for something else At that
time l became acquainted with my
present husband, who was an athlete,
and who Logan my athletic training.
This as done by making me practice
every day with an expander. just as
you see girls use them in calisthenic
classes, with the one difference that
the firmness OF my expander was
periodically increased till at last the
muscles and sinews of The arms, the
shoulders and the neck got SO strong
that / could without difficulty work
with an expalder con sisting of an India
rubber rope as thick as my wrist, and
also practiced lifting and handling
weighs. beginning it'll smaller ones
and gradually incre asing up to a
thousand pounds. This, Of course.
took several years. and in my daily
perform ances l do not always lift
quite the full weight which l could
lift and carry. but there is never day
on which do not handle from seven
to eight hundred pounds at the per-
forma :.
Once we were at Rrlin. and, as our
luggage is naturally tremendously
heavy, and expensive in lrop rtion.
we take as much Of it as possible into
the railway carriage when we are
travelling. The porter, who had put
our boxes into the van, saw that was
carrying what looked like two small
handbags. He fired to put them
into the carriage for me, and | never
saw so astonishel and overawcd a
flce than when | banded him the two
parcels, each containing one of my
heavy weights. Another time we
were going up The stairs of our hotel,
when we found six men engaged in
taking an iron safe upstairs. The
owner who knew us, said. laughing
ly; Oh, here comes madame; she
VIII show you how to do this kind of
work had never tri d any thing
ike it, but took Il firm hold of the
safe and put it on the next step. al
hongh l Wore ny ordinary clothes.
The safe was presented to me by the
owner, aud | have since then often
CARR d it across the stage" Pail
Mall Gazsts.