The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-12
GEORGIA'S IA I r
Child Of Five Years Of Remarkable Size
and Strength.

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and Strength.
Age, five years; weight, 100 pounds.
And a girl at that.
She is bright of mind and rather pretty,
20, but has attained the abnormal weight
100 pounds and ID gaining flesh at the
apid rate of six or eight pounds each
lonth.
The ohild's name is Amber Glen Corley.
he is the daughter Of Charles and Maggie
orley, who reside at Twelfth avenue and
'wentJ-third street, Birmingham.
This immense young miss first saw the
ght Of day June 20, 1886. At her birth she
rev the scales at eight pounds. From the
ginning OF her life she was a very sickly
hid, and all during her first year she was
spectsd to die. She not only did not
COW, but on the contrary shriveled up
atil at twelve months Of age, her weight
~ only six pounds. For q long time the
FAINT barely existed, at many times hardly
S%cernable whether dead Or living. But
ter awhile a slight improvement began,
hich gradually continued until, at three
1ars old the sickly babe weighed fifteen
sunds. But still she was delicate.
"a rapid growth next set in which in
based the child's weight to tifty-four
tunds by the end of the fourth year.
yer since her weight has been increasing
= a geometrlcai progression. At the pres-
u time the child is five years old, weighs
Ter one hundred pounds and is gaining
ish at a marvellous increase.
ctIhe child nursed until three years old.
y to that time she could neither walk nor
1k, except to prattle such nursery monody
the word mamma" Her mind was
30 wanting, apparently, and only within
% past two years has it been maturing.
sw she is unusually smart and observant.
% talks we'll to both children and adults,
I'd may possibly be entitled to the name
Ct, as applied to preeocious youths.
o1ere are some measurements, taken last
Chit: Height, 43 inches; breast measure
mt, 36 inches; waist measurement, 43
Hhes; measure of thigh, "a inches; calf
l,,asurenent, 10 inches, at the bicsps, 16
rlld's No. Z.
mber has brown eyes and pretty, dark
1@sses that hang 22155 inches down her back.
) has her milk teeth yet, which are an in
did not show it by every utterance and
n, look and movement.
"}ne of the most marvellous endowments
Hhls strange young miss ia her Amazon
c, strength. She can lift Il tWenty-five-
tlnd sack of meal OF her shoulder and
" around unimpeded; she can toss all the
I tbr children about as TOYS, and it seems
Qfw LO LII Wi1toFCA AL AcL ~ a. uSE
ler, who weighs I46 pounds, from the
Fr. However. this feat is seldom per
ted, as it might do her injury without
leaediate detection. Compared to chill
hn generally this prodigy has marvellous
tength.
4 irer appetite is worth mentioning This,
gnight be supposed, is quite strong. The
I'D. on an average, eats about the same
nifty as a hearty laboring man thrse
abs a day. But at times it is much larger,
between meals Amber, like most chill
ba, eats all tbs candies and cookies she
a,get her hands on.
4st night, after travelling all the way
dp Birmingham here, the voracious child
tat supper two pounds of beefsteak, six
mi eggs, with bread, cakes and drinka-
is to match. Her father states that she
tcks threa or four gallons of water every
m a matter of course locomotion is rather
wlensome to the young miss, although
ais remarkably active and plays until
tfall with incessant energy. III spite
sssr discontinue of bulk the child seems
ST. quite as.happy as other children.
10 child is perfectly healthy. The dog
account for the excessive flesh by All
,rmal energy of the adipose tissue,
ring out of previous sickness and the
N.tural stimulation of vital functions.
| pithis child lives and continues i'll her
wtnt condition at the age of seven she
a~,undoubtedly weigh 200 pounds.-At-
en- Constitution.