The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-19

her srrn straight out horiZ1ntaily the re-
porter lacked almost two inches Of being as
high as il was. In other words the lover
surface Of the young womanis arm is Just
SIX feet from the ground and the reporter
had two inches TO spare. as he was only a
pigmy 5 feet 10 inches in hight. An amused
smile played on the young girls face as she
noticed the look Of amaZemsnt which the
disparity in size caused.
81 can afford 70 come down TO the level OF
you men folks, - said she as size seated her,
self on chair. Then she quietly and very
modestly told the reporter something of her
pas. life. In this she was assisted by her
mother and father, the latter OF whom sat
cross-legged on chair and whitfield away
on piece of pine with a big jackknife,
much to the disgust and discomfort of the
mother, who Is great housewife and be-
leves that the proper place 70 do ones
whiting Is out at the barn or at the grocery
store while waiting for the mail TO be
sorted.
Miss Ewing, who knows little about the
ways OF the effete eastern style Of civiliza-
ton and expresses woeful lack Of interest
IN the same, preferring TO go back to her
home on the old Scotland County farm,
where she has lot Of fine ducks and chick
ems and horses and just the incest pair OF
calves you ever saw, told the World some
thing OF herself. The first thing that hap
pened to her, she srid, aud her mother cor
roDorated the statement, was her birth
eighteen years ago. There was nothing
unusual about her childhood until she
reached the age of 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 en-
Titled TO. But she did not give this much
thought ct the time because she grew grad
ually, and it gave her advantages which
other girls OF her age did not possess in be-
TrrF HI N1.- AsrrE H. Al
the pantry where all the preserves and jams
and fruit cake were kept.
HER WAIST.
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. She
does not know what corset is from per~
sonal knowledge. and prefers to dress in the
simplest possible style. She is what city
folks would call a country girl' as to
style. 1t takes twice as much cloth to make
her frock as is used by one of her smaller
sisters.
Her hands a o very large, enormous in
fact, but they are shapely and the flesh is
soft and smooth. Although not Chicago
girl, she is not proud Of her feet, which are
quite large compared to those of a young
woman known to history as Cinderella.
Miss Ewings features are Of course large,
is better looking than the average girl. She
has mouth full of pretty, even teeth,
which are actually small, but her mouth is
| large. This is not defect, however, for it
| is soft, laughing mouth, and the lips are
| red as 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 laughing with them. She
has wealth Of brown hair, has this girl,
for nature has dealt bounhfully 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 specs. "She
can get up as good meal as any woman in
the country II you give her the things to
| get it with. wish | had some Of her nice
| light buttermilk biscuits this minute" and
the sweet old lady laid her knitting on her
lap and sighed faraway sigh, as she al
| lowed her thoughts to wander to her quiet
| little farm home in western Missouri, where
the horses and cows aud chickens and ducks
are waiting for her return in April
| ''And there amt no girl in the county
| that can hold a candle to her when it comes
to 1inging the saddle on the horse and gal
| Looping into town." said the father, as he
| stopped whiting bis stick which had now
assumed the proportions Of toothpick, with
| which he proceeded to pick his teeth in ut>
ter oblivion of the great McAllis,er. "When
that little girl wants 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 awayshe goes like streak Of lightning
she and her pony" The reporter ventured
| to think tAat 1t might take pretty big pony
to carry her and said so. 20, no." said the
little girl" as her father had called her, 81
only weigh 275 pounds and that is not too
big load for my pony. And | am very
fond of horseback riding, too"
Miss Ewing would even now be at least
least two inches taller than she is except for
a stoop in her shoulders. This was produced
| from her constant habit OF stopping her
he'd when going in and out of doors.
II suppose" asked the reporter. "you
must have some difficulty in finding a bed
large enough for you to sleep in9"
"Oh, no, sleep in just an ordinary bed,
like other people do. How do | manage?
Quite easily. 1t is not hard matte, and
you see have never been used to sleeping
any other way, so you see it does not make
much difference