Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1913-02-14

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Gently at her home, near CORN,
Scotland county, Missouri, was
said to have been the tallest
woman in the world. Miss Ewing
was s feet 4 inches tall. She was
40 years old.
The extraordinary part of Miss
Ewing's growth was from the
time she was Z years old until
she was 10, At the former age
she was a normal little girl.
i Soon after her seventh birthday
anniversary she began to grow
rapidly, and when 10 years old
she measured G feet 8 inches.
She still had the tastes of child
Of her age ard her life became
miserable, says the Kansas City
Star. She was denied the pleas
ures Of games other children
played, because her presence rob
bad the games OF their zsst,
while the other children stared
at her. She became the butt of
their thoughtless jests, and being
tlmld, the jibas brought her to
tears and drove her away from
associates of her own age.
At school, desks and soats of
great slz9 were constructed for
her, and I'm exceptionally long
bed WIS necessary. She was for
cod to stop on entering ordinary
doors, and rhe homo in which
her father and mother were con-
!, Portable was like a cave to her.
! The care of the young grantees be-
came burden to the father, who
was a M III Of meagsr means.
Bat visit to The county fair
solved the financial problem.
While she went about the fair
grounds in ecstscias a5 til !. won
ders she saw prize stock, giant
vegetables aad tho mysteries de-
Iscrlbed by the sile-show spieler
she herself was the others, VINO
followed her about, staring at
her in wonderment. A museum
manager approached her father
with an offer of q good salary
for her us museum attraction.
1t was arranged that her mother
should accompany her, and she
accepted the offer.
Being heralded as a freak stang
her sensitive feelings at first, but
she eventually learned to look
upon her extreme size philosophi-
cally, and that attitude was made
more easy by the big receipts.
Subsequently she entered 8
contract with P. I. Barnum aud
for several years was an attrac-
ton of the big circus, travelling
over Europe and America. The
dream of her girlhood to own a
home where she would be COM
Portable at last was realized. In
her travels she never had been
comfortable. Beds aud bprths
we're too short, tables, doors and
ceilings too low. She couldn't
find comfortable chairs. Life
for her was q succession of make
shifts. She saved her salary re-
ceived from Rarnum and after
accommodating what she bslleyed
to be sufficient to last her She left
the show business and built a
home near CORN. The doors TO
this house are ten feet tall. The
ceilings are fifteen feet. The
beds are as. long as she chose.
Her bathtub was six feet long,
| and a specially made hammock
on her veranda was fifteen feet
long. Clothes closets are the
size of ordinary bedrooms and
her dining table was four and
one-half feet high.
A popularity of Miss Ewlng's
growth was that above the waist
line she remained almost normal,
except, that her arms grew IN
proportion to the growth OF hel
legs. Her feot required specially
made shoes, No. IL, and she wore
| No. "a gloves. Thirty yards OF
goods we're required to make a