A WOMAN CLOWN.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A WOMAN CLOWN.

• America can boast of the only woman clown in the world, Josephine Evetta Matthews. She is short and plump, and remarkably strong, and one of her feats is to carry her six sisters on her shoulders. She says the first night she had no idea what she was going to say, but nevertheless managed to make a big hit. It was not so much what she said, but the way she said it, that caught the crowd. It was not hercleverness, but her idea and confidence that carried her through. She is one of a family of twenty-one children, thirteen of whom were boys, and eight girls, and all are on the circus or stage. Miss Matthews' reason for wanting to be married is that unless she is she will have to mend all the old bachelors' clothes in the next world. Her mother trained each of her girls to do some domestic work. Miss Josephine is a first-class oook. One of her sisters did all the sewing, another the marketing, another wrote all the business letters ; all had some special duties besides their professional work.