Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-18 | Page 3 | Mother of Triplets Finds $12 a Week Not Enough to Feed and Clothe 11

4 Mother of Triplets Finds 12 a Week Not Enough to Feed and Clothe 11 1 if 4 7 5 l Y S S 7 4 7 ii V V f V J 18 L I Mra Mrs Michael Brescia's triplets and their aunt By GENE COHN N NEA EA Service Writer MAYNARD Mass Oct 18 Triplets have brought to Mrs Michad Michael Mi Mi- chael chad Brescia this triple problem problem lem lam How to rear a family of nine children on an Income of ot 12 a aw w week ek Will she hA have hAe e to p part rt wIth with S two of them until the economic tide S SAnd turns And if It she does let them go how will she choose which choose which two win Will It be S This last question she finds the hardest of all to answer Any m mother ther would She runs runs' up and down the list of names vainly gainly tryIng trying try- try I Ing bag to figure how she possibly could do without nay one of them I and at the same time Ume faced with the problem of ot how to feed and and clothe them How can a mother decide she asks This This' hardy young mother of ot 31 31 who wio has brought twelve children children children chil chil- I dren Into the world three of ot whom died has all but concluded that I she must part with two of ot the newbOrn newborn newborn new new- born triplets For It seems impossible that all I eleven can struggle along on the I I 12 12 which Michael el brings home from the woolen mills roms after long hours at the stretching machine Furthermore conditions in the wool woo Industry are most unsettled If It It were summer figures Mrs Brescia things would be better Then the little garden at the side of ot the simple white cottage would be producing a portion of the daily food But winter Is near and the babes must be kept warm they mus must have substantial food and the older ones must go to school The rent Is Js 14 a month and with three more mouths to feed someone would be likely to go without S No It has all but been decided that as soon as the Infants are able to feed two of them mus must be loaned temporarily But which two That Is a heart twister for any mother I I do not know yet et she says hesitantly S The stronger strong r two Mrs Irs Brescia will probably say In the end For if one should should- be sickly or not so robust she could not bear to see It go to other hands No this would be the one she would have to keep and give a mothers mother's care When the wool market picks up It ma may be that Michael will bring home 22 a R week in his pay enI envelope envelope en en- elope again and with such affluence ence enee the two wee ones can come home again S