The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-03-17
A LITTLE MISS OF EIGHTEEN.
She Is Eight Feet High and weighs a4o
Pounds.

LIE MISS OF EiOHTEEN.
She IL Eight Feet high ana weighs a4S
Pounds.
Come, want to introduce you TO
little girl upstairs. the dearest little
creature You ever saw" Louis Epnstean
said to Tribune reporter at the ST.
Nicholas Hotel. In room on the sec
ond floor the little girl sat, in company
OF her father and mother. To the lat
ter the reporter was presented first.
She was Mrs. Anne Ewing, of
Scotland County. Mo-, 5 feet q inches
high, "A years old, 145 avoirdupois-.
only an ordinary Missouri woman. Her
husband was Benjamin Ewing, same
connty and State. farmer, 6 feet inch
nigh, AZ years old, 165 pounds ayoirdu.
pols-oniy au ordinary Missouri man.
Ihe little girl arose rs the reporters
name was announced, aud as
the toggle joints IN her 1.-the and lis.
som body began to straigh en- his amaze.
ment began to expald. Up. up she
went, higher and still higher. till It
seemed rs il her head were going
through the ceiling. Yard after ward
OF black silk .nnfolded and followed her
from floor and chair. The room grew
smaller as she We It up. The bureau,
the beds, tile chairs, ali became dolls
toys when she wa. fully extended. Her
waist was as high as the reporters neck.
and her shoulder was out OF his reach.
per head was up among the rafters.
She stretched out her arms AID both
father and mother. walked beneath
them, without touching their heads,
and her father is 6 feet 1 inchl She
was only little giil, Just out of the
conntry school, lS years old and feet
high. inches higher than Chang, the
Chine@e giant, or any other giant or
giantess ever seen since prc-historic
man ro"med through tho forests and sat
in the cavesof his day aud generation.
She was bas hful. The reporter could
not persuade her TO say how small the
great world eemed from away up in
the mir. AT one moment, when her
home was nenii med, the dear little
thing began to cry. She doesn't like
being large
She refused 10 show her foot-not
that she was ask ed but Mr. Steam said
it was exactly 1S inches long. He
discovered the lite girl by her foot
away down in Misscnri, Her shoes.
each OF which fe1nired o whole calf
skin, got to pinching her footsy-toot-
sizes. so papa took them to town to have
them stretched A ST. Louis merchant
happened TO he III the cobDler's shop
when the pair arrived. and his curiosity
was nightly excited whcl he learned
that the wearer was little school girl
out IN the country. S'ean got the story
from him, and, leaving hi, Chicago mu-
scum, hastened to the farm to capture
the prize. There were but three in
the family, papa, mamma, and little
girl, and he was six months in persuad-
ing them TO eater into five-years' con-
tract to exhibit thAmse.ves In the cities
the new Last faa ailes 6ee 6e1lfSnosas lS9f sSeM q
TO Chicago, they got homesick and
begged off. just for day or two, they
said. as they had to get back to the farm
to kill hogs. 1t took them three weeks
to kill three hogs, and might have taken
them three mouth. il Steam had not
held them to the contract. They are
now on their way to Liverpool, but
would much rether be at home. They
are very plain PEOPLE and never saw
OF the great world.
The little girl, whose name is Ella.
weighs 245 pounds, without being stout.
She is exceedingly pretty, her beauty
being distributed over a wide expanse
OF countenance. Her hand is rs big AZ
the hand of Providence, but it Is very
shapely. Her waist is rather short -
Miss Ella can sit in an ordinary chair,
but no door Is tall enough for her TO en-
ter without STOPPING. When travelling
East she had to sleep doubled mp on
two seats in passenger ear, being nm
able to get into berth in the sleeper.
At home she sleep. in ~ten-foot bed.
but at the st. Nicholas her he'd is of or
dinary size, and she curls herself up In
ii quite comfortably.
She was small baby, weighing only
II pounds, her mother said, and gave no
evidence Of remarkable growth till her
ninth year, when she shot up like ar
asparagus stalk on warm springmorn-
ing.