The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-11-24
MATING OF MIDGETS.
Chiquita and Major Mite Will Wed
at the Paris Exposition.
Combined Weight of the Pair Less
Than Fifty Pounds = Their
Meeting and other
Particulars.

When Chiquita, the little fairy who
appeared at several Chicago theaters
last season, gives her hand to Maj. Mite
at the Paris exposition next year the
smallest man and woman in the world
will be married.
The major is % ye, rs of age, 33 inches
high, and weighs rs pounds. He is per-
feet in proportion, and in all respects
except size is very much like any ordi-
mary American gentleman you might
meet any day in the week. He devotes
himself to the stage because of decid-
ed proficiency in that direction, rather.
than on account of his stature, and OBJ
tects to being billed as freak. Those
who have seen the major perform are
quite willing to accept this view and ac-
cord him hearty praise for his vocal
and terpischorean talents. Chiquita is
only 26 inches high, is perfectly formed,
but weighs less than 20 pounds. She is
a few years older than the major.
j 1t was during Maj. Mites latest tour
through the middle west that he first
met the fair Chiquita. They were in
troduced socially in the city of Omaha.
An ordinary thing happened.
The two smallest people in the world
fell in love with each other.
Friends Of the little people declare
that it is really case of personal af-
finity, having nothing to do with the
popularity which distinguishes each.
They really loved at first sight. 1t was
not case of freak marrying freak, but
of an honest little man uniting himself
with woman he really liked.
Both of these small folk are unusual
ly intelligent and highly educated.
Both have travelled extensively, and
have gained much of that polish and
largeness of conception which travel
alone can afford. 1t was only natural
that two such keenly developed minds
should be attracted to each other by a
kinship of taste and knowledge of the
world and by conviction that each
might sympathize with the other in
that closer relationship which their
union would entail.
This, added to the similarity Of aims
in professional direction, made the
prospective match most welcome one
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fortunate that the distinguished midg-
cts are thus spared life of lone
liness to which their popularity of cir
cumstances and physical limitations
would otherwise have condemned them.
They are going to be married at the
Paris exposition next year. In the
meantime they will pursue their respec-
tive professional courses and play out
the engagements which they have on
hand. AS these engagements were al
ready billed to finish at the Paris expo
siton, both Maj Mite and Chiquita con-
cluded that their meeting there would
be the most auspicious occasion for
their wedding.
1t will be something of distinction
itself to be married at the Paris exposi-
ton, distinction for them and most
novel event for those who are permitted
to witness the strange ceremony. If
the affair is made n part of the exposi-
tion programme it will certainly be one
of the most interesting features to be
seen there.
The trousseau for this liliputian lady
will doubtless puzzle the Partisan dress
makers, but certainly it will be all that
French art in that line can make it.
One advantage which the diminutive
couple will enjoy is the avoidance of
paying for extra baggage, as both of
their extensive wardrobes, themselves
included, can be carried in good-sized
trunk.
That they will travel in most lux
urious style goes without saying, as
both of them are wealthy and making
more money every month than either OF
them weighs.
Their honeymoon will be grand tour
of the world, which, although they have
seen it almost in its entirety, will under
these felicitous circumstances appear
in new light.
They will be the most wonderful
married couple from physical stand
point that the world has ever seen, and
will doubtless spread CONSERVATION
among the easy going and narrow hori-
zoned people of China and japan and
the other of the oriental peoples to
whom American propensity for sur
prising the rest of the world with some
thing new is forever wonder and q
delight. #tHstsa rta
Maj. Mite is just lately from Europe,
where he has appeared before kings and
queens and fraternized with the aristoc-
racy of all the capitals of Europe.
1t would be difficult to estimate which
brings more fame to this connubal
union, although in America Chiquita is
the better known of the two.
Maj. Mite is of German descent, while
Chiquita comes of Cuban parentage.--
Chicago Chronicle.
A swell Affair.