The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-17

ADMIRAL AND MRS. DOT BEFORE THE RABBI
At one time the Admiral was the small
est known midget, except Lucia Zarate
but he has grown four inches since h
was IS. By that time he was SO proud o
his mustache he could afford to bear wit.
| patience the increase in inches. A pecu
liarity about the Admirals family is tina
Grafton as far back as they can remember
His father is taller than the average man,
and broad in proportion, weighing nearly
| 300 pounds. His mother weighs 300
His only brother is six feet high, but he
has an uncle and nephew to keep hin
from being lonesome. His nephew
Major Atom, is one of the prettiest boy!
l ever saw, with his round cheeks, lumin
Gus eyes and wonderfully long lashes.
| Mrs. Admiral Dot is like a dainty
| French doll, with the manners of a society
lady. except that nothing seems to bore
or tire her. Her complexion. is Almost
transparent her petite figure perfect In
| its miniature womanliness and she has Z
delicious little laugh and conflding man.
ner. There is nothing stunted, nothing
pitiful about either her husband or her
self, although she has had some expert
ences not quite in keeping with her di'
minutive size. Mrs. Dot was an only
daughter and she had brother as big as
most folks, but she had a stepmother,
and travelling was preferable to home
life She was only on the stage a few
months, and it was while acting as lead
ing lady in the Inflated Gulliver's Travels
she met and loved the Admiral who was
commedian in the same company. But
again the conrse Of true love got tangled
up in the first chapter; not even this
pocket edition could be spared. The Ad-
miral is an orthodox Jew, while his lady
love was Presbyterian. After long de-
liberation, he took her to his mother
and his rabbi, and for eight weeks
the loving little woman went daily to the
rabbi and learned her catechism, then
went out with Mother Kahn to look after
her trousseau. Mother Kahn considers
her small son as much of a man as her
big or c, and she is very proud of his Sc
curing SO beautiful and docile wife of
his own size.
On the Thursday before her marriage
Mrs. Dot went to the temple to formally
renounce the faith of her fathers. Only
the women of the congregation were as
sembled; no unbelievers are ever admitted
to so sacred srite. Attended by two
elderly women, sheswent into private
bath to undergo thorough publication
from previous unrighteousness, even to
the cleansing of the hair and nails and
the cleansing Of the insides of ears and
nostrils. The women dried the small
body and, wrapping sheet around her,
they walked in solemn silence to the pool
where the rabbi waited to immerse her
As one of the women told me, she must
be put under the water so that not even
a hair of her head could be seen. The
rabbi must have found her as light and
tiny Gas one of his own babiesl asl he
lifted her. as naked rs the day she was
born, into the sheet the women held.
There was no music, only the renuncia-
ton OF belief in the Trinity and the
vow of believing henceforth in the Unity
and of living consistently, but the still
ness Of the temple must have been awful
to a girl who, from the nature of the
training of her childhood, must have felt
that Judas-ike, she was denying her
Christ. 1T is terrible step" said my
Jewish informant, patheticsllv; she
nor no other girl could take it if she had
any kind OF faith in her home life. l
wonder il little people have as large souls
as big people" There are only two tenn
Piles in New York where a rite OF this
kind can be performed, or where the
orthodox Jewish woman can go for puri-
the practice of Bible times. In this
church. as IN all Others, the form. and
have been greatly modified or
done away with
The other little people ct the wedding
deserve some notice, They were in full
evening dress and wore as many diamonds
and were as graveiy important as the big
people who unintentionaily cut of their
view on all occasions.
Col. Steer with his wife and baby at
!
bride and groom The Colonel looks like
a ;ayIor's dummy viewed through the
wrong END of sn opera glass. He has
waxen face. heavy beard. hair aud eye
brows OF light brown and squsaky voice.
Mrs. Steer IS shorter than he. IL any
thing, and is quite rolling in flesh. The
baby is really the curiosity of the three
She is 3 years old and as large as any
healthy child OF her age. being nearly Sc
all as the mother she cuddles against so
'onfdingly Minnie was very much 4
afraid Of the big folks. evidently con sid I
ring them giants. and she cried bitterly /
when separated from the little mother +
during the marriage ceremony. Mrs (
Steer says that she is amply able 20 spank .
,er big daughter when occasion requires, i
hough her bits of hands don't lcck very .
Iwonder what baby 4i1n.es |