Michiel Musters could buy several plots of land and on the facade of the house he built on Ossendrecht village street there were the words "Maison Princesse Pauline" written in golden letters.

After her father's death in 1889, Pauline toured with her Belgian brother-in-law Joseph "Sjef" Verschueren, her sister Cornelia's husband.

First they travelled the Netherlands and Belgium, followed by Germany, France, and England (visiting Berlin, Paris, Bordeaux, London, and Liverpool, among others).

She made her debut on December 31, 1894, in Proctor's Theatre on Broadway, New York City, with whom Verschueren had concluded a contract for two years.

To attract media attention, Verschueren had promised a reward of 12,000 Guilders to any person of at least 17 years of age who was smaller than Musters.

[citation needed] Two months after her arrival, Musters died in her hotel room from pneumonia and meningitis[5] (by other sources from a cold and an illness of the chest[4]), aggravated by use of alcohol, a few days after her 17th birthday.

When an autopsy was performed on her, a weight of 8 lbs 11.4 oz (3.9 kg) and a size of 2 ft (61 cm)[5] (due to some post mortem elongation) were stated.

Pauline was laid in state on the veranda of the family mansion in a threefold coffin made of bronze, glass, and oak wood.

Due to her dwarfism, Musters was only 1 ft 9.5 in (54.61 cm) tall and weighed 4 lb 5 oz (1.96 kg) at the age of nine.