The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-03
SHE PUZZLED THE DOCTORS.
A Pretty Little Woman Who Can
Stand on Her Cain.
From the New York Advertiser.

From the New York Advertiser.
Ena Bertoldi, who is well known to the
New York public and who is now per
forming at keith's Union Square Theater,
is little woman with great blue eyes
fringed by long lashes, youthful, piqu-
ant face and luNurant black hair. She is
only about . or -. and has been doing
the wonderful things which she does now
at her performances since she was 4
child.
Ono of the greatest charms about Ber-
toldl'S performance is the simplicity and
ease with which she does everything
Most acrobatS come on the stage with ex-
traordlnary smiles and grimaces, squar-
ing OF shoulders and planting Of feet, not
to speak of the preliminary and final
waving of arms and the wrigglng and
SQulrmlug IN which they indulge But
Bertoldl appears before you, slim, trim
and smiling, her hair piled up on a we'll
shaped little head, her slender, shapely
limbs incased in black silk tiGhts, and
| black satin blouse and pink sash com
pletlug her costume. ON her feet are No.
3 satin slippers without any heels Her
performance IS given on high platform,
ana the way IN which she treats her
precious muscles and ignores the exist
ence of that useful possession, u spine, is
enough to make one hold ones breath
with horror. The other morning Ber-
toldl gave private exhibition of her ex-
| traordinary elasticity of body to a group
OF interested doctors.
To see comely, well formed young
| woman sitting on her Chin is not an
every day sight, so when Bertoldi placed
her firm little chin on a tiny cushion on
the table, and then raised her legs high in
the air, and then let them hang grace
fully over her head, the grave physicians,
who imagined until then that they knew
a thing.o two about muscles and anatomy,
ran around to give her shoulders and
chest little pinchCs and punches TO see if
| there was any strain on them But there
wasn't, and Bertoldi only laughed at
them.
Then she jumped about the room. One
jump she gave was thirty inches on her
hands her legs balanced daiutily over
her head. She also bent backward, until
her chin rested on the floor, while both
feet were firmly planted on the floor, and
managed to mistifY even DR. Robertson,
who would have it that she felt pain or
was dizzy. She slipped her gown from
her broad, firm, white shoulders, and
Obligingly dislocated both shoulders, and
put them back in place again,
arms, scrambled about the floor,
her body gliding through the ring thus
formed, turning over and over and over.
But the most wonderful "trick" of all is
done on the high platform. Here an up
right revolving piece of metal, with a
mouthpiece, is placed, and, with limbs
poised in air, Bertoldi swung round and
round. supported only by her teeth,
which grasped the mouthpiece, her whole
body resting on her two front teeth
Bertodi is an English girl. Her re
markedly youthful looking father was an
acrobat, and when quite little thing his
daughter initiated his performances
Practice has made her wonderfully ex-
pert N certain acrobatic feats, which
only men ever attempt, but her work
comes so perfectly natural to her that she
hash an idea how she does it. If you ask
her where the strain is when she does
certain act she viii smile and say wait
a second and do the turn over. She
does everything with such ease that she
has no recollection of its difficulties.
And what does she eat; does she take
exercise; what kind of baths, and does
she believe in massage} of course, the
women will ask. Well, Bertodi smiles
in a superior manner when she speaks of
it, and says,
why, | eat what | like; everything
good. like your American ice water,
but not when ! can get anything stronger.
l seldom walk, and sleep as long as
| like and | don't take cold baths or
sense"
And this girl is formed like young
Diana, weighs about 100 pounds, has
round, chubby shoulders, which measure
thirty-eight inches across, a twenty-inch
waist, and believes in corsets Who
would go in for reform and physical cul-
ture7