Arizona republican., 1904-02-27
SHOW FREAKS AT HOME.
What They Do When Not on Exhibi-
 ton at the Museum.

| of nature. To be museum and have | genius is doubly bad. Nevertheless, this is to some extent the state of af- fairs on the exhibition pratformat Hu- bers museum, where the freaks are to | be seen.
 In all probability nine people out of ten who look at these freaks wonder what sort of lives the dog-faced boy the missing link and the fat girl lead when they are at home.
 To believe that the missing link can play violin would be too great stretch for even the most elastic of imaginations. but ocular and auricular demonstrations proved that Krao can play violin, and with no mean ability at that.
 Can you imagine that Krao girl brought from Sumatra. being who is possessed of hands, feet, ears and 2, mouth like a monkeys, having any thing of the musical hidden away be- hind her wonderful grotesque mask? She had a musical sense, and without doubt Krao finds in her music that soothing hypnotic quality that every soul cries out for.
 "Music" she always understands that word, and her great black eyes light most wonderfully when she is asked about her violin.
 Music, it Is good" carefully artic- ulated the missing link. Music makes me happy here"-she placed that hong boneless, cartilaginous hand over her heart-'music makes me
 l Here she raised her eyes. opened her mouth and gave vent to a sound of strange woefulness. It was a noise between the howl of a dog when he | hears a certain chord, and the in articulate moan of a darkened mind or soul.
 Now Krao's music is truly of the character that would make some peo- pie laugh. It has in it that queer, wild discordant strain that is to be found underlying all Hungarian music. It IS what many would call discordant, and with the combination of the music and the expressive moan that escapes occa- sionally from Krao's lips you hear an l extraordinary sound. Krao has taken but few lessons; she plays nothing but the violin. She learned how to
 handle her instrument. how to manage . her fingers, that's about all. She cannot read music and plays mainly by ear.
 like the true Hungarians do, and she selects only those compositions that
 tend to the minor. When asked why this was she exclaimed, clenching her
 hands, gritting her teeth and rolling her eyes:
 Tt is best-it is O-u-u-u--" and
 again that moan.
 Now there is a queen needle swaI- lower. This queen of the pincushion
 who makes a luncheon for the benefit of the public from fifty needles and
 a yard or so of thread, and then re- produces them, strung on the thread
 in a very systematic manner, has a , longing for other things than needles to dine on, and inasmuch as she declar-
 ed that a diet of needles does not
 sharpen your wits nor aid digestion you'd better not try the trick. However. outside the museum the
 queen is quite different. She is con
 tent to do her own housework and her
 greatest hobby is preparing dainties for the table. Perhaps because of her unusual diet during the day she tries
 to pamper the tastes of those about her after working hours.
 Nevertheless, however this may be u she can wash dishes and said she haC rather do this any day than to swallow
 needles. She can cook and declare. she does not flavor the food from the '' workbasket supplies. She says, in fact that you are as safe in partaking of n dinner that she prepares as you ar
 in dining in a restaurant, as she con
 fines her needle diet strictly to tn,
 museum. She leaves the steel bars or ' the cushion at the museum. too. Sh, Il says that she never swallows a needI u wrong end first, and she hasn't on
 such article in her house that sh, o knows of
 's As for the fat girl what would yor . really expect a fat girl to do, save t N eat and sleep and earn her salary. Bu ' this fat girl up at Hubers quite sur U prises one, for sometimes she does rul
 into streak of energy and regularl = upsets it.
 '' Marie Lill, that's her name is jus
 as good natured as she is fat, and jus d. as fond of the museum life as a ia
 girl ought to be. In her home she is
 woman of responsibility; she canno
 move about to any great extent espec 7 tally in a Harlem flat, but as a di d rectress she is A No. l, and everythin u is as spick and span as though sh ls were as light as a fairy and did tn = work herself.
 The fat girls great hobby is em 'c broidery. She will sit and embroide y by the hour, day, week, month. Sh 9' will embroider everything in the hous II from tea towel to a window curtai;
 and she makes big, liberal patterns i her work. Perhaps this is the force C >' habit. but Marie Lill is extremely mod
 est about her embroidery, and when y was suggested that she might sell
 and turn a pretty penny, she drowned
 as much as Marie LilI ever could frow re and exclaimed:
 I'm a fat girl. That's all right. IT el on exhibition. that's all right But
 won't sell pieces of embroidery an ct have people in their homes say. 'Ye 'h that's pretty we'll for the fat girl N st indeed. I won't; one has to draw tn S. line somewhere" And she draws tn n line pretty severely, for, though she e. good natured and has just the sort ( )y a temper that is accorded to most pee
 pie who are amply supplied with fiesl
 she sets her foot down sometimes, an
 when she sets her foot down!-bJ
 there, one must be circumspect. le There is another monstrosity in tn d museum list of freaks, and though h J zs% I|