Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1916 — 'DON’T ARGUE WITH HUSBAND’ [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

'DON’T ARGUE WITH HUSBAND’

It was a strange party recently given in honor of the seventy-fifth birthday of Countess Magri, better known as Mrs. Tom Thumb, who is less than three feet high, in her home in Middleboro, near Boston, Mass. As a special favor the guest of honor and her husband, Count Magri, played several musical selections for the guests. Countess Magri, the tiniest lady in the world, was married to the count in 1883, after the death of her first husband, Gen. Tom Thumb, and now there is not a happier couple in all New England. She explains her peaceful married life in this way: “Don’t argue with your husband. Let him have his own way—but win him to your way when he doesn’t know it.” Countess Magri has been before the public for 00 years fe traveling around the world a score of times in that period. The count is slightly taller than his diminutive wife, so she calls him her “big” husband.