Show cum ss at eatn and tartt aun and aw ort alie most among child in alie german empire now ia I 1 lyella very baily has told its readers how she bools and acta how she eats and and beran is railing upon her as all vienna railed epou her a lew weeks ago when she was at tha austrian capital irole gorb and allicer ol licer and doctors and privy councillors councilors counci lors and other big wigs are received by lier daily even the preat panted Bet beatral ral hours with her chatted with her family and eventually wrote an elaborate description and of her which he will read soon chy tore the anthropological society of berlin elizibeth not because she is pretty or clever but dwanee she is big according to virchow she ial the biggest girl ol 01 her years whom europeans of times have seen though but 11 ye araold she is pir feet bis inches tall and weighs about pounds Ll izabeth was born on the manor Wies Bolij in the valley of the danube her parents were poor peasants not taller nor broader than other peasants she was the youngest of none ot whom save here elEis remarkably mar kably large four hours after her biotti she beighe 1 ten pounds ache grew as other children grow till she as 4 years old then she began to be a little giantess in her fifth year alia gained ten inches in height abbe outgrew her blue cotton gowns and wooden shoes so rapidly that bapa lyska who was trying to support and four other little laskas on ethin over a year was put tp his wits ends to get enough to keep her decently clothed from her fifth to her ninth birthday she grew only an inch or two between her ninth and tenth birthdays ehe gained a foot between her tenth and eleventh a foot and four inches she could pitch hay cut grain plow and dig with any man on the manor her hind was is lare as three ordinary feminine bands and her arm was capable of a terrible blow with an open banded cutt over the ear she once knocked a young man who teased her senseless to the ground her appetite became enormous for breakfast she took several cups of coffee seven or tight thick slices of black bread almost a pint of honey and half a dozen pieces of the fruit lu season for dinner ehe often ale a pound and a half of two tw o pounds of pork five or six potatoes and other vegetables in correspondingly large quantities while her increasing appetite and eize were ducks and drakes with the meager income of the leeka family her father died his widow was almost some one hugg esteil that the young giantess liht be turned to financial account A vienna manager of freaks was brought to the manor to look at hr he agreed to pay elizabeth a salary which in a few weeks would buy alie leeka family more blue cotton gowns and wooden bbous and buck bread and honey than they could use up in a year frail lyska said all right waa immediately iut on exhibition hibi tion and within two was famous throughout the ano bonnan empires elizibeth ia she has long dark brown wavy hair large dark ayea clean cut features and white teeth her figure ia shapely though immature she has a very w inch has made her llie of all borta of attention from flit headed young men ahree of law an elderly man nho pretended to bea Frei bernand a number 0 ioana tradesmen have written her loe letters ten of her correspondents were willing to wait tor her to grow up if ehe were not already willing to love them lot ever Is too childish baill to be even amused by this one sided correspondence she is contented tu play with her dolls and paper puzzles and books while not on exhibition for the benefit of the rest of atie dybka family she ia altogether happy and etith her nei lito on the stage her appetite strength and height are in creasing slowly she exercises daily to devel ap her already she is able to perform casy feats of strength in time her manager thinks she will be the champion strong woman as well as the chain pion big woman of the world |