MRS. GENERAL MITE.

NZ Truth, Issue 58, 28 July 1906, Page 3

MRS. GENERAL MITE.

There is at the present time holding daily and nightly levees, -at premises next the Ne\fc Zealandef Tibtei> : JVlanners-street, a •lady',»#liose^i i name l; and fame are' world-witie; This is, Mrs General Mite, widow of that diminutive gentleman, who, after a^ unique career as the smallest man, on earth and quite the most intelligent 1 of male freaks, laid down his , tiny; body to, its eternal rest, at Broken Hill, several years arro. Mrs General Mite is herself only 32 inches tall and: weighs, in her clothes, only 32ft s. She has charming manners and though so small is perfectly proportioned. She wears a child's No. 6 sho% and as children's shoes run to No. 12, the atomic nature of the foot of this lady of 30 years may be 'gauged. She wears bangles presente^'.'to he ; r by the late Queen Victoria,^ the Prince of Wales (now Kinp Edward) and the Earl of Hopetoun, and a ruby btpoch the present of the Earl of Kii'tore.' Admission to this dainty little lady's levee is only 6d, and school children can see her for threepence. '