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Show MOTHER OF FORTY -f OUR CHILDREN. Some persons have given themselves a guod deal of uneaHine39 lest from , the paucity ot children born to American Ameri-can parents of late years, the native race Bhould die out. Certainly, tho i size of families, Irom whatever cause, bos been greatly reduced in this couu-; couu-; try during the present generation, i Where there used to be eight, nine aud ten children, there are now not ) more than twot three or four at most, . two being what may bo called a regular regu-lar number. Thore are many exceptions, however, to Ihia rule. ' A conspicuous exception is Mary, wile of William Austin, now a resident of Washington, who has had forty-four cbileren, enly eleven of them born alive. She bad twins thirteen times, and triplets six times. Her sister, Mrs. Carry Kinney, aged 43, has had twenty-six children, and her husband's hus-band's siBter has had forty-one children, child-ren, making a total of 111 for three women. Tbia seeruB almost incredible, incredi-ble, though the figures are vouched for. Mrs. Austin, a native of South Carolina, and reared iu Tennessee, is the daughter ot John G. Klind, a printer. The was extremely loyal during the civil war and rendered excellent ex-cellent service to the cause by nursing nurs-ing and administering to the sick and wounded in the army of the Cumberland, Cumber-land, olten going on the field and taking wounded soldiers Irom tbe front, where they had fallen. She ia a regular physician, and has practised lor twenty-five years, having been one of the first woman doctors in the country. coun-try. Bhe studied medicine in New Orleans under the well known Dr. Stone. She lost an eye while with Ihe army in the valley of Virginia, Vir-ginia, received medals for the able and teat leas manner in which she bad i discharged her duty, and was granted, likewise, a regular commission. She i is 54, of good proportion and appear-f appear-f ance, and, aa may ba inferred, of vigorous coottitution. Her husband was also in tbe Union army, and ' muet bave been a galliant soldier, for he bears the marks of a score of serious wounds, which would have ' killed any man less tough. Tbe Klind and Austin blood is so proli-: proli-: fie that a few members of the (amiliee I would be welcome immigrants to a new and thinly settled country, Where they were, progeny would be . assured. Mrs. Austin, judging by l Napoleon's standard as revealed by - Mine. De Stael, is unquestionably the greattst woman in America. |