Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1913 — Midget Weds Show Girl; Giantess Maid of Honor [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Midget Weds Show Girl; Giantess Maid of Honor

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A romance of the circus sideshow reached its climax here when Jack W. C. Barnett of Roxboro, N. C., twenty-one years old, thirty-eight inches high and weighing thirty-rour pounds, got a license to marry Miss Dorothy David Warfield of St Louis, nineteen yeare old, about five feet eight inches in height and weighing 130 pounds. Mrs. H. L. Morris, seven feet four inches tall, was matron of honor, and her husband, a man or ordinary size, was best man. Barnett had to be lifted upon a high stool when he was called on to sign the application for a license at the city hall. With the stool beneath him, he stood with bis head about on a level with that of his bride-to-be. Since Barnett was sixteen years old he has traveled with the sideshows of Various circuses. In the sideshow of the same circus, Miss Warfield, until last April a high school girl of Balltmore, does a "mystery act.” She is placed in a cabinet but when the curtains are pulled back she is not there. Then flowers begin growing from a vase which stands on a high table in the cabinet, and finally

Miss Barnett’s head and shoulders appear, as if growing out of the bouquet Barnett gets $75 a week and Miss Warfield gets S3O, they said. Mre. Morris is the “giantess” of the sideshow and her husband is a ticket taker. As the couple told of their romance, Barnett received a telegram of congratulation from his brother, Herbert, of Roxboro, who is sixteen years old and twenty-eight Inches in height. “Miss Warfield joined the show at Baltimore last April,” said Barnett, “and two days later she was introduced to me by Mrs. Morris. It wag love at first sight on my part” Miss Warfield said she liked Barnett from the time she saw him, but did not let him know.