The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-26
The PRINCESS PAULIYA.
A Quaint Little Creature Is This
Midget.

From the New York World
They set this Princess Paulina. the
newly arrived morsel Of Dutch humanity.
upon the shelf OF a rolling-topped desk.
They put silk hat beside her, and its
brim was nearly on level with her Shout
der. There were five other people in the
room, every one tan and large. But the
princess folded her hands in her lap and
gazed about with kindly condescension
in her eyes and a supercilious smile about
her lips
She win be 70 years old IN February.
She speaks four languages. She takes
coenac with her coffee every morning
and glass of kummel after dinner. She
weighs pounds and is II inches high.
The top hat beside her came nearly to her
shoulders. She could find an ample, com
Portable seat in the palm Of any grown
person hand. So she despises largeness
of every kind.
She looked about pityingly. and pres
emily dropped her ewes as if the great.
coarse human beings surrounding her
were painful beyond her charity or ccur-
tesy When one of the big men said My
child in gentle soothing tone she
shrugged her shoulders, curled her lip
anu said: II am not a child. j am a
young lady, If you please"
Here was a new point of view.
Here was person of another race
hardly of the human race. To her. the
baseboards of rooms are high wainscot-
ing. To her the chief point of study in
men as she stands among them is the
knees of their trousers. You can tell the
expression of the faces of the men you
meet. She can tell the expressions of the
knees of their trousers. To her mouse
Is as big as the biggest domestic cat is
to us, and a mastiff St. Bernard is as big
as an elephant. a butterfly is as big as a
chicken and an eagle as huge as the tabled
rock. When a fly lights on her in summer
IL is as if bat were to light on you.
With full-grown mind. she looks abroad
and finds the whole world magnifed so
that the step from the street to the cable
car is a lofty ascent and the seat of a
chair is a Matterhorn precipice.
This supercilious expression on her face
was therefore interesting. The only large
thing that could be discovered about her
was her appetite. Her sister said: she
eats almost as much as / do" Another
/ large thing was her vanity. She was
decked with rings. She had jewels at
her neck. Her doll-lil1e dress was made of
wine-colored silk and was cut with a
saucy hustle such as the grisettes almost
always have in the pictures. When her
brother lifted her up and sat her on his
hand to show her or the better she sub
mitted as an Indian princess might sub
init to being borne in a chair on the shout
ders of an elephant.
The artist made many pictures of her.
Her face is no bigger than the palm of the
hand Her hands are really large in pro-
portion to her body, The foot is meagerly
provided with means of getting about in
an upright position, her feet being very
small
The particular thing about herself that
EHn1
dow is a puHy creature for his proportions
beside her She can lift dumb-bells al
most three times her weight She is as
strong in the arms as i'm the legs and she
has the strength of a lion, in proportion,
of course, i'm her legs. She does wonder
full acrobatic feats i'm the air, using her
big brothers hands as supports, and she
does them absolutely without effort
Her face is very old and wise, and she
/ is always good natured, as if she had
/ learned by experience that Immature is
/ folly. She has q way of smiling when she
/ thinks no one is looking that makes You
/ feel rather uncomfortable 10 matter
/ how large you are. in fact, she seems to
have given up every human weakness
/ except vanity. and she wouldn't be human
/ if she gave that up. She is not interested
/ in the different countries or the different
/ people she visits. Baseboards and cellar
doors and paVements are much the same
/ everywhere, and as for people, the trous-
/ ers of one nation bag as uninterestingly
/ in one country as in anotherand UNI
/ slightly feet in unsightly shoes are the
/ same the world over.
1t is curious to think what the world
would be like if the whole race were
cut down to her size. 1t may first oc-
cur to you that the human race would
be a rare, puful spectacle creeping and
crawling about Then it may occur to
you that the very stars would shrek
/ for laughter at the pompous strutting
and fretting For, of course, when we
strut and fret at our present size it is
quite a serious matter and not amusing
at all even to the wise old stars.
The Princess Paulina was born ten
inches long. She has grown seven inches
and she is thankful every day OF, her
/ life that she stopped then and there,
which goes to show that we should save
our sympathy until we find out what
the one we pity thinks about it. The
/ Princess Pauliua lives at the Fifth Ave-
nue. hotel She is lost in its wide, high
corridors. She uses the bath tub as a
swimming pool. and she sleeps on cot