Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-05-03

a FEMALE
b Can Lin q Tbau.asd-P sana W~l- n
and Walk or with q safe.

she Can Lin q Thau.and-P oand w~f- n
and Walk OR with a safe.
A quiet. modest girl. Of melium
height and slender. graceful figure.
dressed in n simple brown dress.
frightened mp only by a narr0x red
ribbon and tiny bow at the throat.
chatting pleasantly away to her visit
or In her quiet room and now and
then interrupted By the piercing voice
Of 4 tame canary that is Nine Veto
rina. the female Hercules. who every
evening astonishes the audience Of the
Empire Theatcr with fea's of her mar
velous strength. For six years past
she has now been before the public a.
the strongest woman in the world
she has astOnishcd Bsrlin and Paris
audiences; has been victorious in her
competition with many. Of the worlds
greatest athletes; is honorary member
and uledalist o. the Central Athletic
Club II Slettin; honorary member Of
the Blda-Pesth Hercules Club; Of The
Hercules Club. Vienna; of the Com
pasnie Hercules Of Paris. and a string
Of other athictic'soeieties.
How came it," our representative
asked. THAT you adopted yoar resent
profession? Had you exceptional
strength when young2'
mo. not Mt once; and when I was
quite youngI was not stronger than
the average healthy chill Iva. born
1T S;rasbourg. and after my falIcr
died | went to my u%ncle's. WHO was a
circus proprietor. anil he at once
began to train me ~ 4 circus rider
and n performer on tho trapcze But
my career as an acrobat came soon To-
m end. for | fell from . he ght Of
forty feet while performing. aud even
since | have the greatest dislike to
trapeze performance& Luckily /
only broke the bridge Of my nose 1.
the accident. and therefore / was in
no way impeded from beginning To-
tram for something else. At that
time | became acquainted with my
present husband. who was an athlete.
and who began my athletic training.
This was done by making me practice
every day with an expauder. Just n
you see girls use them in calisthcnic
classes. with the q difference that
the hrmness of my expander WIS
, periodically increased till at last the
muscles and sinews Of the arms. the
shoulders and the neck got 50 strong
7 that j could without difficulty work
with m expander consisting Of an India
rubber rope as thick as my wrist. and |
also praciiced lifting and handling
weights beginning it'll smaller ones
and gradually increasing up to 4
thousand pounds. This. Of course
took several years. and in my daily
perform noes | do not always lift
quite the full weight which | could
lift and carry. but there is never a day
on which | do not handle from seven
10 eight hundred pounds at the per-
formanc,s
Once we were at Berlin. and. rs orr
luggage is naturally tremendously
heavy. and expensive in lrop 'rtion.
we take as much Of it rs possible into
the railway carriage when we are
travelling. Tho porter. who had put
our boxes into the van. saw that | was
carrying what looked like two small
handbags. lie offered to put them
into the carriage for me. and / never
saw so astonishcd and overawel y
face than when | handed 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
Will show you how to 10 this kind of
work hal never tried any thing
ike il. but | took Il firm hold Of the
safe and put it on the next step. a.
though wore my ordinary clothes.
The safe was presented to me BIZ tie
owner. and | have since then often
carried it aeross the s,agc."-rtG
Nall Gazette.