The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-28
MIDGET WORLD
IS REVEALED.
New Volume Discloses All
About Their Lives and
Psychology
By H. ALLEN SMITH
,ited Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, April %. (UP)'
People who have spent much time
wondering about midgets, from
almost any angle, will have ar
opportunity to disprove or verify
whatever suspicious or doubts
they may entertain about the lit
tie people. -,
An exhaustive treatise on mid.
gets, answering almost any ques'
ton the human mind could con-
ceive, has been prepared by two
men named Walter Bodin anC
Burnet Hershey and is to be pub
lished under the title, cts &
small world"
The authors have taken more
than 800 pages to tell the stor!
of midgets, encompassing theil
origin, their daily habits. then
psychology, the famous member!
of their ilk and, or yes, indeed
their love life.
Normal people, according tt
Messrs. Bodin and Hersey, al
ways are specializing about the
sex life of midgets so they have
devoted a large portion of theil
survey to the subject.
"Midgets," they say, Glove ant
are loved and enjoy the fruit!
of love. They have their Dor
Juans and their Jezebels. The!
have their Romeos and Juliets
They have their gigolos. They
have their seductions and shot
gun weddings. They are married
and they are divorced (Dot!
denote a lapse of time in the
text.
GAS to their choice of mates
midgets do not confine them
selves to midgets. With them, a.
with US. love is a tyrant wher
ruled by passion, and midget'
like us, mate as love dictates
There are frequent alliances be-
tween midgets. but there are
many unions of midgets and nor
mal-sized individuals.
"Men resembling boys at play
with kiddycars have wives anG
mistresses twice their size. Wo'
men no taller than girls cuddline
dolls are faithful wives OF nor.
NAL men and mothers of theil
children"
There are even, il is asserted
midget streetwalkers.
Any normal married cople may
become the parents Of a midget
science has found. The pituitary
gland, located just back of the
nose, suddenly ceases to develop
properly and the. child, upon
reaching five or six years, quits
growing. 8."@
Almost invariably the children
born to midgets grow to normal
size. While scores of cases are
known, the one of Mrs. Sybilla
Rogers. of Germantown, Pa, may
be cited. She is the size of
1-2 year old child. married to q
man of normal stature, had six
children, all normal, and the
grandmother of two. An Ameri,
can midget measuring exactly
two feet married a normal-sizeG
woman and had a daughter. The
baby, at six months, was an inch
taller than her papa. One son OF
midget couple grew to become
a star on a California football
team, and one midget woman in
Europe has given birth to Id
children-all big.
One of the chief worries OF
midgets is that they will keep
growing somewhat after they
reach 80. By that time they want
to stay midgets. And another
peculiar thing about them, they
eat more, in proportion, than
their heftier brethren.
Male midgets have a fearful
time of it with normal-sized wo.
men, according to the authors.
Women" they say, "of all
sizes, ages and social degrees
stop midget men on the streets
lavish gifts and caresses upon
them, baby them and, not infre.
quently, plan and execute init.
mate rendezvous"
The midgets, it may be added
are not usually Mortified by this
but take it all in their lilliputiar
stride.
Science holds that the pituitary
gland IS a wondrous thing.