The evening world., 1889-07-09
WHAT A BABY!
But -Four Months Old and WeiS',S Fifty
three Pounds.
Little Lydia FettiIan's Wonderful
Proportions.
Just Arrived from Finland on Her Way
TO VI ChlgaT.

q Miss Lydia Fettilan Is n guest ut Eeillson's
scandinavian Hotel. Greenwich street.
She was sleeping in n special bed on the
third floor when an EVENING WofLp rcrorter
followed his card up 70 her apartment this
murninp.
She arrived with her mother, Mrs. Anna
Fett;lnn. on the Servm yes erdnv. together
with o af. Annie, Jan aud Marie. her distin-
guished brothers and si,t. RS. Shr has beeu
holding a Ievce ever since her arrival i'll
America, and among her callers have been
the agents of two dim" museums.
Miss Lydia comes from Finland. and goes
to-day to JON her iaihcr, who il II coal miner,
ut Calumet. Mich.
The young lady wns lying in II shallow
clothes basket. three feet long by two feet
wide. and she completely filed IL.
The reporter had been told by the Castle
Garden PEOPLE 'hat LydiR was fifteen months
old and was the biggest baby they Ind ever
seen.
Tn mother could sneak only the language
of her native land, and the obliging clerk at
the hotel hunted up II man who coull con
verse with her. But he could speak no
Eng iAh, and another man, who could un-
dcrstand h Il peculiar mixture of finnish aud
swedish. and could in turn lie understood
in his mixture of Swedish and English by the
clerk. was brought IN.
Iydiu, pink and white aud sweet and clean,
was clad III II neat apron of blue plaid ging-
ham. Her soft yellow brown hair was
brushed back from her shnpey forehead and
she slept during tho discussion of her
points"
The reporter asked questions in English;
the clerk reIcatcd them in Swedish to the
Swede. who could talk n little Finnish; he
TRANSLATED them to the Finn. who understood
of the mother
She WINS II freckled woman Of thirty. five
years, with n high forehead and n o'heriy
mir. The reporter was n father, and despite
Nla tn.N,, - tlAA. al .-,,. "a.
nge had been overstatcd. Therefore. he
So d. interroGatively: The baby is fifteen
months oldl'
"Nicht. NIGHT" exclaimed the mother.
tanning the bahy's face more vigorously, and
then followed nm indignant eypos'ulallon
which came to the reporter through the
translation ofi.e like this:
Baby was born on the Inst day of last
February. She Is n little more than four
months old. She weighs fiftv-thrce pounds
and has always been healthy"
Bahy's bosom rose and fell in sleep. 1t
was a prodiglouS bosom. and n tnpe-measure
revealed that IL was nearly thirty -four inches
about the bust, or larger than the average
Amer can woman.
Bahy's head was not exceedingly large, hut
the cheeks were so fat that there was only n
crease to show where the sleeping eyes were
c!o7ed, with "A little picket fence of yellow
lashes sticking out OF it. The Chops hung
away on either side i'll great. sold punches of
fat.
Inc reporter gently Itted the Dlue plaid
ginghnm. and there we're revealed pink and
white chubby feet. each pink toe half hidden
by the rolls of oye%rhnnging fat from the foot.
A crease, an inch deep. denoted the ankle,
and NJ the calf the tape measured eleven
inches. while at the thigh the leg was four
teen inches in circumference.
The arms were proportionately chubby. the
dimplos nj the elbows and the creases at the
wrists beng uufnthomably deep.
And yet little Lydia was no. only in perfect
proportion in every part, but Every limb was
well formed and every Jon was perfect.
BY means of the circumto"ntorv translation
Office the reporter cleaned that Lydia was n
fat baby when born. but not II giant. People
had visited the little home in Finland and
paid five or ten cents for Il sight of the Infnn-
tile giant, but mamma would not exhibit her
in America. much to the disappointment of
the museum agents.
Annie. who is eight years old tomorrow,
weighs two pounds less than her baby sister.
and the two younger children, aged two and
n half and one and n half years respectively.
have n Joint weight of ouly ~tifty-tive pounds.
They all eagerly kissed the hands and feet
of the sleeping giant and the mother replaced
the clean white and blue polkn-dot silk
handkerchief over the fat baby face as the
reporter Withdrew.