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Show cr foub T JHE EVENING HERALD. s r -- 1 , ; V) y ' : - n y vyw rjyr--g--w-- p YT - ?" " ' - ; 7r"i 4 jf J . ,' v ..- v - . ' f St - W,f - ( i u.'.'-'- ........ ' ' 1 He . How Sweet Marie, the 510 Pound Beauty of the Midway, Won Her 100 Pound "Boy Friend". h:'A IMWtoiTi-:and How She J i"7"4 Lost Him. s. H't . ' t " : . 'i v ! 'is. " i i r r - " V x . , - " t i - i - . " I ' vrt Ur w -- ill a Aw y Ci";vi Smith, Marie's Predecessor as the "World's Supreme Fat And. Her Jliutband, Pete' . - Itobineoa, e Who Be-for- Tits Marriage Was a "Wring Sltcletvn" by Profession. Psr- - f - -- ;'-.- - - r.' ''"''J ' -- ' fyn ; Ifc.l'j! I'd A! ivl - f I V3 I show.. ' . . - - it - St 4' 1 , t - - c , 1 i u. " 2& . - , j . It was whils she was visiting the liae-u- p of animals after the performance the Tent that the manager approached tjn fcnd Fjg her ... , toother. , ... 1 .. He introduced himself to the mother and then turned to Marie with admiration all over . i his face. ..-.What a fine figure of voman " said.. She couldn't believe her ears. 1 A girl who'd always been called "FattyV and looked upon as a monstrosity! But he repeated: - ' in ; W .. yott-far1-n- , -- r r r-- ";" .." - e ' too "You're wonderful! You're-muc- h to-bwasted in this burg.'" You ought 'character. '. J" - - - "So" that's tha way of it," he Ir said to. have " . to hava a career I" r " As a result of that strariga meeting it wsj hmit. "Well, vou'll iust see. You're, coin to marry me if I nw to Wke'you hi torqo."1 Marie would kave her small homo agreed that 'tnd "ftire- - straight'lo 'the-- , biggest and buiust' mnninrhT. fvirht piied at hpv Romnn y Island! playgrouttd . in. ail the .; an i flid. For days ehe was torn bf miaceji There she was to make practical use. of her - i lot , llmrMW mar-Wo- us : - 100-nau- worlO-Conc- lw ),: tm. ' .:'.''"" f r that she might tun Into Jock at eny moment and fear that she would never. See ' . ". nun again.'" . , Then one night tint Jot her tell the sad, l romance enaea: saa nite oia'.now ner "I went .into- - the restaurant for little snack a double steak and a conple of orders Oi f rcjicn znea."i turned arouna just in .time to see Jock coming with a club in his hand. "'By fair means or fouL I'll win youl' he shouted. Then hs brought the club dewn on . pe oacKeltoi my, fteadl .. and didn't know arv. myself falling, j But more. thing Tiny the Midget was thers and sh told me what happened. You see," I fell over' backward and dropped right across the Colonel. There he was. plastered 'flat, against tite. moor, clawing and clutching to get away, and shrieking for help. And there I was in a dead faint lying nirht on ton of him. ' He must hav felt as if the Rock of Gibraltar had toppled over ' . .OH him. "They called the pottoe and three of them so he couJd get up,i.iBt they tried t.lift-msome men out of the ccwldn't So they crowd that was edgifig jp to fini. out what he was yelling about Finally ten tf them pleked me lip and carried me home to wy mother; ? "Of course, they arrested Jock- .- But'J dmit think that's enough for him. I've read in books and magazines about .'cave-men- .' But I never expected to have one Of them fnJilse Jove to me and try to marry, me, as he said, 'by fait moans or fbuL' So I'm thinking of suing'" hin damtfees.' I'm thinking of asking for one hundred thousand dollars. It isn't tlmt j.want the money. I do varjt.'to tciicn Eim a lesson that will protect other 'fatties!' Jrora : ; the likes of him. Voife? now fr that hear "I fsjdn.ve Jock. But they say a voAtr. "weigh; five hundred pounds jra t,tV. vcn emotlons-feo- t- One evening Jock Zecher wandered in.. Tht moment he saw . Marie he. was stricken wits admiration for Jock was partial to women who Had' been laid out on a liberal plan. He approached the manager of the show, identified charhimself as "Colonel" Zecher, a acter, around Coney, presented credentlnlsi and asked for an introduction to Marie. ; After considerable parleying back and forth the introduction was etranored. And- - that was the way .Romanctf first came Into the life' of Alarie Lawhead.. - , .. The Colonel took hor . ouf to supper that night and presently they were seep together Naturally the crowds would stare constantly.' when they promenaded along the Boardwalk--the little man and the mountainous womnn---huneither one of .thera minded that in the least. She. wa having the Marie was chuxmed. pleasunluEt time' she had ever, known in he; life. Perhaps she thought her affairs would go atari? in that channel- - forever. r She. liked nothing better than being squired around by a devoted and companion; even though he was gray-hairoae ttigitt,-aa mfdfiet cor.ip&rcq with tewolf. ' ' ' the story torn, Jock proposed'. " Marrlsre Was Marie h(ln't counted on Uii possibility she hadn't even onsidwed, flespite the ' obviously pemantic trendof their friead-- ship..' 'To begin with there was such a big difference in age and weight. ; So Marie was " Just frigter.ed by Jock's proposal though probably no mor so than most young women- ' wlien they reeerv'e, , their first proposal " v ? " expectedly. ). "Oh," she exclaimed,."! couldn't rcarry you," ;. :. . Why not?" he countered stormily. "Oh, I jnst couldn't," she ppttfsted. Fritnds of Sweet Mnrle are certain that if.' Jtc'k had bundled the situation tactfully at this . point he wouid have ultinit-lFor, in their bpiniont all lhat Marie needed "was a chance to get used to thee 4dea." But ha .chose to get r,off endd and ta act-f- i ;f har ' . temporary refusal .vera a, rpflection on his Jt nn-et- : I .;:'v4.t"4&J V: I ' " B'li if ht . v-l J i'te ' rrv T1"" well-kno- V slxty-eeve- r : . Corkscrew. the hit it off. .? !' T .' Dog-Face- d' hot-do- she,-kno- f, ',Jv Coo-Co- i 1 Probably the only one who was "astonished was Marie herself. And hers, was a happy astonishment. , How could ; that her romance wasn't going tft prove 11 a romance fntght beT -Didn't Baby Bunny Smith, weighing four hundred and and Pete Robinson, who agitated the scales at Just fifty-eigpounds ana was Known proiesionaiiy as tiie "Human keletonf-Lf114love nd marry tot to live happily ever aft-irBut then, of course, Marie had spent her few years safely at home wth her mother. And she knew little about men or romance either! Marie was born in a. little Pennsylvaiya" German town near Johnstown, and straight from her cradle started out to break all weight When other toddlers were going records. around in little lamp-sha- de skirts, looking like French dolls with their dimpled legs and arms pejsping from the ruffles, she was like a roll of butter. If she haf dimples they were loat in ripples of fat, and ruffles made her look like a cream Jug decked out for market Then when she weat to school everybody began to call her "Fatty," jShe couldn't play tag and Jdmp rope with the other girls. If she tried a crowd collected and declared that she war as "good war show" and her schoolmates stopped playing to laugh at her. She' sery ahoisdy .beeem the town "fatty; - -- - -Then one Summer day the circus came to town. t u-- " . f nmense proportions by becoming the "world's ' t . largest living fat lady," Accompanied by her mother, Marie came to New York's famous seaside fairyland and was immediately taken into the fellowship ef the c "strange people." On one side of her wag the Bird-Gir- l, Dippy the Aztec, Lionet the Bearded Woman and Boio the Human On the other side were such celebrities as Tiny. the. Midget and the " Boy. Mario found them not a bad lot and they, for tlielr-pw- t, immediatly called he "Sweet Marie' and started looking upo her as the belle jof - - - ' " b " . ty cs' V' . ' " R ' , . - By FLORENCE McINTYRE. OMANtL blinks In every light at Coney Island. And when you remember that there are one million of these blinking lights in and around the famous Luna tower alone the tower that . shines one hundrsd miles out on the ocean and often Is a beacon light for mariners you can understand how it happened that even the prize ijueen of a Boardwalk "Freak Show" found love there. She is "Sweet" Marie Lawhead, and she is only nineteen, and she is pretty. But before she came to Coney Island she'd never had a beau in her life. .For, you see, ' Bhe Jtips the scales at five hundred and ten pounds Jhen, on a memorable summer nifcht she wat introduced to Jock Zecher. Jock' is considerably past nineteen,- but experience has brought him wisdom in the ways of pleasing the feminine heart His weight is something slightly ever a hundred pounds, bathside. But along the Boardwalk they hve a saying that little men prefer sizeable women. So the other exhibits In the "Freak Show," and the barkers g men and the rest of the clan and the were not surprised when Jock and Sweet Marie - m .). .. - - " ' V-- . Suitor 100-Poo- ' ;' i 'uSSfWilitt VStriy'! fait Bivielf allinr and didn't know--- anything- - more. Ton see I fell orer backward and dropped right acros it the ColonaL There he aa plastered flat, clawing and clutching to ttcA WB mrA BfiTlaLlni 9nr Koln Prnm Mari'a Own RtnrT.; ,o ... . n. ' ' ' Jj G-- T. "'v.'--- ' '! - hii.i v . STV- . . :j5riV-- j ' : - . . yr--w . -- . v yny ' i M'lf .' jff f . -- . y - : , r , . - . ' . -- - T"' MONDAY, OCTOEER25, 1923, . - ! - ..til... . . ; i 1 . f mi nftid-w.irki- rj" - hf gv.'r a tumoie. "But' oh." 6.o vr.'Aii oa wm coursed down, her bigyromt ' haony!" ' ' - Romance goea on bl'.r.ktr.c Coney Island and there ar and around the famous Lin ,Maweot" Marie Lawhead; tt BClion vtt slu tt But Jock is gone ana fat her vt" romanpe i; M Xip -- ,H lic-bt- i slot... 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