BRIDE OF 40 STONE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 11

BRIDE OF 40 STONE.

Th© heaviest girl on earth "is ,{say» the Star) shortly to be married. Nellie Lambert, a, nineteen-year-old giantess* engaged at a penny show in the Strand. . is to be led to the altar: by Albert / Ensell, a prof©ssiorial weight-lifter. How much he will have* to marry may be briefly stated as follows:' ' , i Total weight, 40 st. 3 lb^ Breadth o| back' (roand shoujdersk -l . Bft./sm. .■ ■' '\.'.\:' Il,'- A;,v —. Circumference of »rm.-26 inches., v The bridegroom will find a desirable waist of i ft. 4 in.; also,/ top much for, an arm-spaa. How much nourish— ment it takes per day to support bomuch bride is appended: : V ' Three pounds of meat. • Four pounds of vegetables. ~. : . Three pounds of bread. :l ■ ■ Six pounds of fruit. . One and a half pound of chocolate. Three pints of fcocoa and tea.* ■: •' A quart of milk... •;■ • „""■'■• ■•',,--•;.<■''■' ■' •'■ ■'■ '■ '' '' Miss Lambert, who ksils from Leicestershire, is a great granddaughter: of tno famous Daniel Lambert. From ■ her ; fourth^ year, she has been an ever-■. increasing wonder, and her great ambition is to reach 52 et. 11 lbs., theweight of her paternil colo<RUß. , * Her future husband is the son of Mr Henry Ensell, Landlord of the Red: Cow, Dale End, Birmingham, a finer .muscular fellow 6 ;ft. high, weighingt 14 or 15 etone. For three years theiir, courtship has been moving on tK» wheels .of motorrcar or landau, '/fmt,. lovers' walks have been /ound tryinjgi. .•'. Once, at Humberstone Gate, Miss Jiam- ' bert fell through the floor of tiie carriage in which she was riding. At ■Victoria Hill, Henley, the axle of tV* taxi cave way while she was '.getting: into the vehicle. To prevent.similar accidents in New York, her agent airedt a huge gilded closed concern, on massive wheals. '■'■■. . • ■