Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
BIGGEST WOMAN
COMES FROM FARM
PEASANT GIANTESS IS FOUR
TINES AVERAGE SIZE
She is Making World Tour-Leaves
Tyrolean Country to Go on Exhi-
bition and VIII Come to
America Soon
Special Gable to The Herald.

special cable TO The Herald
LONDON, April 13.-On n secI,,ded
little farm in the picturesque noun
tains of the Tyrol there recently u,as
discovered a young peasant woman of
truly enormous size. Even among her
own people who are generally of large
stature, she was regarded as a most
wonderful prodigy of human magni-
tude. From her third to sixteenth year
the girl had grown at terrific rate and
then stopped with a record of eight
rect In height and 343 pounds in weight.
Although an object of great local won
der, the woman lived on quietly quite
unknown to the outside world Some
one finally induced her to leave her
happy home and exhibit herself in the
surrounding villages and later in Ger
many. Her success in this way en-
couraged her to start oN a world tour
and she began with a visit to the Brit
ish metropolis
Her name is Marie Fassanauer. but
she is known on the stage as married..
the biggest woman who ever lived.''
and 1T does not seem likely that any
one Will venture to dispute her claim.
Ihey do not measure her or weigh her
when she appears twice a day at the
Hippodrome, but one sight of her is
enough to convince any one that the
official figures can scarcely be exag-
gerated. Accompanied by her sister.
who is of only normal size. Married.
walks into the arena and round the
stalls in bashful demeanor natural
for a PEASANTS first appearance in LON
don and exhibits herself to the audi
ence.
Although not handsome, the giantess
is good looking, possessing a more in
telligent face than usually falls to the
lot of the giant race. She smiles pleas
anty enough at the surpise which her
appearance excites, and her younger
sister seems positively delighted to find
herself walking about with the tallest
woman in the world.
The giantess is now 27 years old-stil
marriageable. Every morning she tours
the city in huge motor car with her
sister, each wearing the typical Swiss
peasant costume; the tall hat, it may
be noted. coming in quite appropriately
for London style.
The giantess lives on cereals, fruit and
vegetables, eats little meat, dislikes
beer and drinks wine in moderate guam
tity. She is, in fact, almost vegeta-
rian, and as such it may be guessed
that her example will cause a boom in
heavy meat diet if anything will She
has deep voice which sounds exactly
like mans. And what hands! what
size do you take in gloves?" asked an
indiscreet visitor. mo. a." replied her
manager, but Married. blurted out, eve
never worn gloves"
She has little of the eternal femi-
nine" about her, but she is not a "suf-
fragette." Like the giants of story
book land. she is fond of children"
but in quite different way. She loves
them, and knits pretty and serviceable
underwear for them as a hobby.
After satisfying Londoners' curiosity
and short tour of the provincial cities
the giantess plans to visit America.
During her recent visit to Berlin
Married. is said to have received an Of
fer of marriage from wealthy Colo
RADIO cattle raiser who wrote that he
was 'just her size" His name was
Higgins, but Married. declined to be-
come Mrs. Higgins because Colorado
was too far away from her home.
Another suitor has turned up in Lon
don and has caused considerabI dis
turbance at the stage door in an effort
to see the giantess. But she is shy
and the police have been instructed
to keep the stranger at a proper dis
tance. ..,l.,..I