The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-26
A WEE LITTLE MOTHER.
Her Baby is Almost Half as Large as
Herself
From the New York Advertiser.

her 6aDy Is Almost HALF as Large as
Herself.
From the New York Advertiser.
On the second floor of the big fat house
No. 155 East 1O5th street baby was born
just two weeks ago to-day. 1t was girl
baby, and a pretty baby, and it weighed
| seven pounds, but it was not on account
of any Of these reasons that the general
public was so much interested in the
event The lions share of attention was
monopolized by the baby's mother, who
is the wife of Admiral Dot, the we'll
known Lilliputlan who for many years was
with Barnum. He is now in Chicago.
Admiral Dot is forty-eight inches high.
Mrs. Dot is an inch taller and the baby
measures nineteen inches. So far it is
not very big family, but Mrs, Mathilde
umbach, the trained nurse, says that
the baby promises to grow tall and strong
and outstrip her father and mother in a
very few years.
Admiral and Mrs. Dot were married
August ID, 1892, and the wedding was
very large affair despite the diminutive-
ness of the principal participants. The
bride was then Miss Lottie Swartwood,
whom the groom had met while they were
both travelling with the Royal Lilliputian
Opera Company. She was a picture of
loneliness in white satin and orange bios
SONS, and the groom looked extremely
handsome in full dress, with white gloves
and a very big gardenia for so small a
person in his buttonhole. Miss Bolton,
Major Atom and all the well-knOwn mid
gets were present at the wedding
About three weeks ago the admiral left
his bonnie wife with his parents at their
home at No. 1856 East 105th street and
went to Chicago to be admiral of a big
ship, where he eXtols the merits of q GER
tain cigarette. Two weeko ago tonight
he received this telegram which made
him feel about six feet high and as proud
as peacock:
tits a girl and weighs seven pounds Mother
AMI baby doing we'll.
Mrs. Dot is the happiest and certainly
the smallest mother in the world, and she
can't tell you enough about the beautiful
new toy that she has to play with.
81 think" said the little mother to the
writer, that she is the loveliest baby in
New York, and so good! Last night she
went to sleep at 8 clock and never woke
up till this morning, and she never
cries, just wriggles her little fingers and
gurgles way down in her throat when
she's hungry. Oh, she's so cunning; look
at her dear little hands and feet!'
The hands and feet were a size larger
than Mrs Dots and as pink and smooth
lous that such tiny toes should have a
shining bit of nail on each onel
''We are going to call her Hazel" con-
tinued Mrs. Dot, punctuating her re-
marks with kisses. Don't you think
| that is pretty namel 1t is after my
husbands grandmother. My husband is
coming home in two weeks. He says he
crazy to see the baby. You know he first
heard that she only weighed four pounds.
and he thought that was very big
baby, but when he heard that she really
weighed seven pounds and had gained
pound and half in ten days, how do you
think he must feel2"
The baby who is really q remarkably
pretty child, with great. deep blue eyes
and quantity OF silky black hair, kept
her gaze fixed on her little mother in dig
nified silence
1T is very curious, is it not, that in the
Kahn, family-that is, admiral Dots
you know-there has been a midget in
each generation. The father of Major
Atom, who is my husbands nephew, is a
worry tall man, but there is an uncle who
lives in Germanywho is also a midget"
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Kahn, the father
and mother of the Admiral are both tall
and we'll made, Mr.. Kahn weighing 300
pounds and his wife 200. They are as
happy over the new arrival as they can
be, and the old gentlemen looks from the
little mother to the big baby and then
goes off alone and chuckles as happily as
if some one had left him a ortune.
The pleasant hammered, handsome
grandma beamed as she said: ''All the
little skirts and dresses we had made for
the baby were too small, and we had to
let out the waist bands and widen the
sleeves so that her little fat arms would
go through them. Her hands and feet
are unusually small, but she will doubt
less grow tall, although her father when
he was born weighed seven pounds, too.
When he was weeks old he was about
twenty inches high. One day we were
at Barnum's Jheater. That was in Cali
fornia you know Gen. Tom Thumb was
on the stage and invited the children in
the audience to go up and stand beside
him Our Leopold went up with the
others, and when the general saw him he
gave little gasp of surprise Mr.. Bar
mum took him to his dressing room
and shortly afterward engaged him to
travel with the circus. Ever since that
time he has been on exhibition"
Mrs. Dot is a very pretty little woman
She has fair skin, dark eyes and soft
brown hair She has pretty figure. and
is slender and graceful The Admiral is
stout and dark compIexioned, so the fat
baby will probably take after him.
Mrs. Dot will not appear in public for
some time. She says it would be shame
to take Hazel on the road while she is so
young, and to leave her HONEYWELL, only
tall, heartless people would suggest such
a terri BILE thiug
If Hazel were a boy there would be
grand religious rites held in the syna-
gogue where the family attends service.
But she is only a girl, and so all the re-
ligious ceremonies win take place in two
or three weeks, when the family will at
tend service and the rabbi in loud tones
will announce the birth of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leopold Kahn's daughter Hazel, adding
his blessing for father, mother ana