Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-04
CULVER, NOT
CULLIVER WILL
SHOW AT GRAND


worlds tallest mans He is eight feet
three inches tall and weighs 245
pounds. He is appearing at the
Grand theater tomorrow night Born
IN Ohio, the son Of normally sized
parents, Captain Glllliver developed
the wanderlust at II.
"By that time / was seven feet
six inches tall" Gulliver explained
'and beds had become about the
most aggravating thino in nv life
II guess just decided to go out
into the world and see if l couldn't
find one that fit meY So he
travelled west, but by the time he
got there, he measured eicht feet
and was still growing. "I'd always
sort Of wanted to be cowboy, and
liked it fine, because there was
plenty of room to sleep out on the
range, but the blamed COW ponies
ware SO small 7 had to rive it up
they'd run right out from between
my legs" he said. He finally gave
up the cowboy life and developed
the system of sleeping half the night
with his legs hanging over the foot
of the bed, then changing around
for the other half and letting his
head extend over, pillowing it on the
seat of chair Ringing Brothers
circus proved alluring and for several
years he Travelled with the show He
is 40 years old and has a son and
daughter, both we'll over six feet tall.
Although it's fun to be able to
look over the tops of every ones
hnodc tIn 1f or;oV g.
drawbacks, Captain Gulliver claims
for instance, in the matter of going
through doors, climbing ordinary
stairWays and buying clothing
worst of all is the experience of
travelling, and he is doing it all the
time! When with RinglingS he had
a specially arranged car to travel
in, where he could sleep in peace,
and there was no danger of bump
ing his head-but now Well, Pull
man train was never intended for
eight foot, 245 pound men, he says.
Il tried a lower berth once," ne
added, "but I happened in my sleep
to pull one leg out. of the aisle and
bump my knee against the bottom
of the other, closing it and almost
slnothering and crushing the fellow
who was asleep in it. After that 1
didn't try any more berths on trains,
and now just have the porter give
me few blankets and roll up and
so to sleep in the aisle
In the same act is Louis Hart 122
nonnd strono man: who saws: Fright
now the human race is busily en-
gagged in eating itself into the grave.
Half the money being spent in Amer
lea for food could be deposited IN
the banks where it would provide
an income for really ripe old age
100 to $50 yeaTs-which would not
be at all improbable if the money
were so saved. 4 Fasting, within rea-
SON, is not a Vitality destroyer, but
is the absolute reverse" Hart has
practiced his creed with the result
that today, in spite of his sman
stature, he has several strength tests
at which he has challenged the
worlds leading strong men and which
have. never been equalled To this
strength he seems to have actually
added the state of eternal youth 81
expect to. be young at 100 and live
to be at least $50 years DID," lie
declared.
Hart confines his diet almost en-
tirely to vegetables, eating meat but
Sparringly and infrequently. He con-
Sunes a large amount of water. "It's
one of the best foods man has yet
discovered-an the beauty of it is
it is practically free, he said, "yet
most of us use it but Sparinglyi'
So enthusiastic is Hart over the value
of water diet that on several days
of each month he makes all three
meals of it, yet even on these 'fast"
days he has no trouble going through
with his act-lifting bulky objects
weighing as much as 500 pounds
! high above his head, anchoring his
heels to the backs of chairs and
allowing three or four persons 20
stand on his abdomen and many
other seemingly miraculous stunts OF
strength.
Hart is not a naturally born strong
man. He is an artist, specializing
in ivory miniature portraits. 1t was
while q struggling, puny art student
in London that Hart decided to "do
something for his body There were
seven of the students working in one
studio and, finances being short, they
took turns acting as models-but Hart
was never called upon to act as
a model. His skinny little body
would not even form the general
outline for a masculine study. Sick
at heart, he one day began exer-
cising and dieting. A year later
all the artists in the entire COM
munity were crying for him to pose
for them when they needed a model
of classical and powerful physical
i development.