The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-05-06
CAN LOOK DOWN ON MEN.
THE MISSOURI GIRL WHO Is EIGHT
FEET HIGH.
She is Young and Still Growing
A Country Girl Who is Away
Above Common People.

Above Common People.
Miss Ella Ewing, late of Scotland
County, Mo-, is without doubt the big
gest woman, at least in point of height,
who has honored New York with her
presence in many years. In fact it is
doubtful if ever a woman of her altitude
has ever been seen on the streets of this
city. In short-although this term may
seem out of place as applied to the sub
iect now in hand-Miss Ewing is just
eight feet in height and is still grow
ing. She is eighteen years old and has
all the manners and simple graces of a
young girl not yet from school and still
undecided as to her proper position in
the makeup of society. A reporter of
the World called on Miss Ewing at her
home. AS she entered the neat parlor
the writer arose to meet her and tried to
acknowledge the introduction grace
fully. Miss Ewing, in true Western
style, gracefully extended her hand and
said she was glad to meet him. And as
she clasped the writer's No. 8 hand in
hers there was an opportunity to make a
quick comparison. Her hand is about
twice as big as that of an ordinary man,
and the foreinger is just three inches in
circumference.
81 i'm very glad to meet you," said
the young girl, as she beamed about three
feet down toward the reporter, ''and
shall be very willing to talk with you if
you will not go away and call me a freak
and a lot of other horrid things. You
know / am not a freak, but just a plain,
simple, little country girl, not yet out of
school. 1 do not like being looked at
like l was a wonderful and rare animal
of the miocene or pliocene period dug up
by accident and put on exhibition. Oh,
no, 1 do not object to letting you stand
under my arm, but mind you. you men
always think you are bigger than you
really are"
And so it proved, for when she ex-
tended her arm straight but horizontally
the reporter lacked almost two inches of
being as high as it was. In other words
the lower surface of the young woman's
arm is just six feet from the ground and
the reporter had two inches to spare, as
he was only a pigmy five feet ten inches
in height. An amused smile played on
the young girls face as she noticed the
look of amusement which the disparity in
size caused.
Miss Ewing, who knows little about
the ways of the effete Eastern style of
civilization and expresses a woeful lack
Of interest in the same, preferring to go
back to her home on the old Scotland
County farm, where she has a lot of fine
ducks and chickens and horses and just
the incest pair of calves you ever saw,
told the World something of herself.
The first thing that happened to her, she
said, and her mother ~corroborated the
statement, was her birth eighteen years
ago. There was nothing unusual about
her childhood until she reached the age
of eight years, when she began to show
a painful ambition to occupy a great deal
more cubic feet of space than little girls
of her age are rightfully entitled to. But
she did not give this much thought at
the time because she grew gradually,
and it gave her advantages which other
girls of her age did not possess in being
able to reach up to the high shelves
in the pantry where all the preserves and
jams and fruit cakes were kept.
Miss Ewing is very reticent about her
size and would not give the size of her
waist. 1t, however, is about twice as
big as that of two ordinary sized men.
1t takes twice as much cloth to make her
a frock as is used by one of her smaller
sisters. Her hands are very large, enor-
nous in fact, but they are shapely and
the flesh is soft and smooth.
Miss Ewing's features are of course
large, but they are by no means bad. In
fact, she is better looking than the AVER
age girl. She has a mouth full of pretty,
even teeth, which are actually small, but
her mouth is large. This is mott defect,
however, for it is a soft, laughing mouth
and the lips are red as a life of freedom
in the country and plenty of fresh air can
make them. Her eyes are blue and good
natured and she does most Of her laugh
ing with them. She has a wealth Of
brown hair, has this girl, for nature has
dealt beautifully with her in almost
every respect.
ELLA is a mighty good girl, " said her
mother, who is a regular "old- fashioned
woman, looking up from her knitting
over her gold specs. ''She can get uI
as good a meal as any woman in the
country if you give her the things to gel
it with. ] wish l had some of her nice
light buttermilk biscuits this minute, u
and the sweet old lady laid her knitting
on her lap and sighed a PARKWAY sigh, a.
she allowed her thoughts to wander to
her quiet little farm home in Western
Missouri, where the horses and COWS and
chickens and ducks are waiting for hel
return.
"And there amt no girl in the coun,
try that can hold a candle to her wher
it comes to flinging the saddle on the
horse and ~gallOping into town." said the
father. "When that little girl want:
anything from the store in town she
don't ask me TO stop one of the hired
men to go and fetch it, but just catches
one of her ponies and saddles him and
away she goes like a streak of lightning,
she and her pony" The reporter ven,
tured to think that it might take a pretty
big pony to carry her and said SO. sob,
no." said the ''little girl asher father
had called her, 81 only weigh 275 pounds
and that is not too big a load for my
pony. And l nm very fond Of horseback
riding, too"
~ suppose, f" asked the reporter, ''you
must have some difficulty in finding
bed large enough for you sleep inf"
"Oh, no, / sleep in just an ordinary