Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-02

| has great eye Tor beauty III Htlui
and makes many pretty sketches IRON
nature. He is learning to paint if
water colors, and that keeps him pref
ty busy during the hours that wouio
otherwise be idle. The Corean tw'-
and by the way that is the most re-
markabe exhibit since the days of the
Siamese twins-are learning photogra-
| ply. l am myself an enthusiastic
amateur photographer and l am teach
ing them the mysteries of the cam.
era. Like myself, they develop ana
print their own pictures. ! have
collection o.. nearly five hundred pho>
| tographs taken during the Barnum &
Bailey tour of Europe, from which we
| returned last fall"
How do the midgets enjoy them
selves off hours?'
"They probably get along better thar
some of the other 'prodigies.' There
are five of them, and that makes plen.
ty of company for all. AT the hotel
however. and also on the road, the,
have to be retired to great extent
and they are constantly thrown upof
their own resources for entertainment
This summer finds them busy at thei''
rnidgets are. Hungarians although lik'.
most of the Magyar people, they also
speak German huently Mr.. Bailey
discovered them in Vienna In littl'.
midget theatre Their great objection
in coming to this country was the1
unfamiliarity with the English IAN
guage. Now, notice, they spend a !
their time studying the peculiarltles
American speech, and before the seas :
on is over they will be able to convers
huently without an interpreter. Apa1
from this, the young women, particu :
larly Anna, who is only twenty slx
inches tall and is approaching hsr
twenty-second year, Is great needle
woman. and with the assistance CT
her mother, who travels with nee,
makes all her dainty little gowns. Anna
is very much in love with certain lit
tie midget, only an inch or two taller
than herself, and marriage in LII :
put may be looked for before long.
What a monstrous man that giant
is. Would you call him freak Z!
The eyes of the armless wonder flas n
little.
MADAM" he said. there are TO
freaks with the Barnum & Bailey SHOW
That was decided at meeting heio
in Olympia, London three years ago.
Canon Wilberforce named us 'prodigles
and .prodigies' we will remain until the
end of time The use of the Word
freaks on the signs in Madison Square
Garden last spring was without au-
thority. OF that we were assured BY
the management. On the road we are
.prodigies. George Anger the Cardiff
giant, is simply an exaggerated man
prodigy of size. Naturally he can
not associate with the rest of man
kind. No one would care to Walk
along the street with a man towering
nearly eight feet into the atmosphere,
and broad and heavy in proportion. &c
would create a riot in i've minutes.
But Anger finds employment and en-
joyment during his off hours never
theless. He is a great reader. HE IS
studying English. He means to follow
the custom set by so many and recofa
his impressions of America. Some day
they will probably be issued In book
form. Such man will never fret Tor
amusement.
$50 it is thruout the curio hall. Ev-
ervone has some popularity or fad.
some useful or pleasurable enjoyment
to keep mind and fingers busy. have
been before the public as prodigy for
thirty years, and have always found It
so. Even the life of a human prod
| igy has it's compensations
Most of the prodigies with the Bar
mum & Bailey circus are exhibited IN
the center of the menagerie tent, where
forty of them are to be seen free of
extra charge by the crowds who tarry
to view the animal cages.