New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-21
4 UONiN VINO rs NOT TO BE MOI m.
MRS. ABBOTT CAN BE LIFTED ONLY WHEN SIZE
CHOOSES ASD FIFTEEN MEN CAN
NOT PUSH HER.

Some sixty or seventy pcovl" were gathered III
the dining room Of the Surtevant House last even
ing 70 see Mrs. Annie Abbott prove no" heavy
sh. could make herself Mrs. Abbott comes from
Georgia. ana she has been all around IN" "'rId
irving to ind somebody to MT her. She naturally
Weighs a hundred pounds or less. but nobody can
lit her unless she chooses TO be lftei. She Is
not only w.ighty In herself. but the cause oil
v.,rht in others For when she touches children
their toes instantly freez~ to the floor and strong
men cannot drag them away from H.
Before Mrs Abbott began her feats last night
she explained that she dil not know how they
were done at all, and that she should be glad
20 have anybody present find ont and tell her.
She had puzzled end OF doctors In Germany.
she said and OF them had written book
about her which had raised the ire Of the others
10 such an extent that the quarrel between them
had somehow got into the courts and she was
now going TO place the weight OF her In
nuence and her personal heaviness on the right
side.
When she hal said al this. ana good deal more,
she called a little CIR, up on the Platform anu calico
a man 10 lit her. lie d.I II easily Then Mrs. ABB
bolt touched the child and the man; the ch'd touched
the tried iift her again. preserving the
contacts. He might as well have tried 10 NIX ID
.amppost. suddenly. as he was try'nb 10 se' q
his two hands came together. and just as suidrpy
h. lifted the child II she had been a Kitten, Inns
when he touched his fingers together she was power
less II he had had silk handkerchief btt"c'l U','
49,. said so as to insuair them from rlch Other he
c,uld mo-; have lifted the child.
Thrr. little boys were next called TOT, ana tl'y
stood In "A ring with tic girl big man stood be-
hind each child. with orders 70 lift when the time
came Mrs Abbott touched the childrens noses ana
cheek bones and told them To look AT her ana mink
of nothing but keeping their feet on the floor
Then the men lifted. They could pitchh me hPoys
forward and tip them over. they could get uflr
heels off the moor. bat their toes cIUng 70 IN.
boards as II they were screwed down The next
performance was the attempt To lift Mrs AbDott
herself. and It failed ignominlonsy. Iheu nit""n
men stood in line each one, except the one III 'front.'
nuiing the fingers OF his right hand on the neck OF
The man in front OF him and his left hand on ms
back Mrs Abbott stood in front OF them an. ana
the object was for all OF them 10 give great push
M once and push her through a window, whlch was
closed They all gave great push but Mrs. Ab-
hott was not disturbed. Those who stood nearest
20 her said she did not seem 10 be exertihs any
strength. ,-.. - NJ,
Abbott stood on IL. AZ her own good peasur" she
weighed anywhere from - to ~, pounds or else the
scale was her confederate ana He'd about H. Nheh
men tried to it her up she weighed down upon tne
scale no les. and when men leaned on her shouii"rs
she weighed no more. Mrs. Abbott Is said 10 nave
noises IN her head which can be caught IN chaIn-
pagne glass and heard FOR some little distance Sne
wants som, American doctor TO explain her 10 the
,rorlj and SHOW the German doctors that they are
NOT the owners OF all the science 10 be round any
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