St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-11
A FAIR MISSOURI LASS.
Miss Ewing Measures Eight Feet
in Her Stockings.


in Her Stockings.
Kansas City Times.
''B. +. Ewing and family"
This was the simple line on the reg
lister of a downtown hotel yesterday,
no residence being given. Mr.. Ewing
entered the Office and did the writing
man of medium height, probably
forty-five, slender, farmer evidently.
Then Mrs. Ewing came up behind. still
smaller as woman than he is as man,
neatly and plainly dressed, a plain-faced
woman, shy and retiring. And then
there was gasp from every man in the
office as the ''family" appeared-juSt
one in the family" and girl.
But she stands plump eight feet tall
in her stockings.
Clerk Jordan ordered the scuttle in
the roof removed and Mr.. Ewing and
his amazing family were given rooms On
the top floor. Miss Ewing tried the
elevator, but found it uncomfortable
resting her head on her knees, and so
walked up. her head always one flight
III advance of her feet.
. The lady and her common. everyday
parents were found in Room 101 by
reporter. My wife," said Mr.. Ewing,
and the reporter bowed to the little
woman. my daughter" whereupon
Miss Ewing began to unllmber. She
was seated, and she was dressed in yell
lowish brown. She pulled her feet
under her and began to get up. 1t was
like Jointing a bamboo fishing pole. 1t
was like stretching out patent hat
rack. 1t seemed to threated a demon
stratiOn of perpetual motion. 1t made
the reporter feel little and mean as at
last she stood erect, his head just above
her waist.
She bowed and the reporter lodged
1t was like great brown brick chimney
being toppled by the wind, or the lean
ing tower of Plea.
Miss Ewing shook hands, and the re-
porter felt smaller STILL He hand meas
ureS just a foot from the wrist to finger
tip, and four and half inches across
the knuckles. If child ever comes
within the sweep of that hand-lacka-
dayI Then Miss Ewing took up joint
after Joint and was seated again.
She is Missouri product, this i'm
mensely tall girl, and the state should
be proud of her, for the like was never
seen. She will be nineteen years old
the 9th of next month, and only ten
years ago began the vigorous growth
which has made her freak. Up to last
July she attended district school in
Scotland county. Last December her
parents took her to Chicago, and are
Just beginning to realize that they have
fortune in her. She has been for three
weeks in New York, and is now en-
route to Denver. She says New York
is fine city, but she doesn't like the
notoriety she attracts.
Can you sleep in an ordinary bed?''
she was asked.
"Oh, yes" she replied, in voice in
cllned to bass, but not unmusical. But
how she ever does it is profound mys-
terry to any one who looks at her.
Miss Ewing has grown an inch in the
past year, and expests to add to her
height for a couple of years to come.
She Is perfectly proportioned, but very
slender for her height, and the
ordinary man could easily encircle
her waist with his arm-that is, if he
had step-ladder. Her features are
regular. except the nose. Her eyes are
small. Her bang is like the fancy frieze
over the portal to some public building.
Her hands would make John Lawrence
Sullivan ashamed of himself. Mrs.
Ewing said there were fifteen yards of
goods, double width, in her daughters
dress, and it was very plain dress.
Miss Ewing was born in Lewis cOun-
ty, and weighed seven md half pounds
at birth. When she was fifteen she
stood seven feet in wooden stockings.
Her father is farmer, and it he is
proud of his daughter doesn't show it.
Her mother, however, takes great pride,
apparently, in her first and only baby.
She is Methodist. While her height
is rather overlooked at her home-peo-
pie are so used to it-she couldn't ap-
pear i'll any gathering ON earth without
attracting instant attention.
Miss Ewing doesn't talk much, and if
the truth be told strangers don't care to
talk much to her on the first meeting.
She makes them feel that they are
puny, insignificant groveling worms of
the earth, and that they had better hire
a ladder and be somebody. And when
Miss Ewing again unjointed and bowed
the reporter out. it was as if he were
making obeisance to hinged monu-
ment.
Miss Ewing will enter museum.