Show I DEFEATED MEMBER OJ ar HOUSE CANCELS OLD CONTRACT Carolina F Farmer armer Collects Fourteen Suits of Clothes on Odd Agreement W WASHINGTON D. D D C. C Dec 15 For 15 For many years ears Representative Small of North Carolina has by agreement been presenting to R. R C. C Bland a California farmer and one of his constituents a new suit of clothes for each additional child in his hi f family Having presented thirteen suits and ana being recently notified to send the fourteenth Representative Small has informed Bland mand that the contract will be off with Mr Smalls Small's retirement from congress on March 3 Small and Bland made their compact a number of years ago when Small mall was making a campaign speech at Robertsonville Robertson- Robertson ville near here Bland then had twenty children he now has thirty Twenty six of pf the thirty-four thirty Bland children are living and the present Mrs Bland Blands Bland's second wife is the mother of nineteen nine of whom were born during the last ten years ears including one set of twins Eighteen children still live at home but Mrs Bland declares she sho gets lonesome sometimes because so many have gone away Mr and Mrs B Bland r recently had a gr group p photograph to Ph taken n of df the 19 family il still remaining on the Bland farm While the photographer was working a buzzard cast its shadow on the ground Bland was asked if it he was superstitious No he said Im not afraid of buzzards buzzards buzzards buz buz- but at at first I st thought I t the blame I thing was a stork In calling the children together for the photograph Bl Bland nd simply cupped his hands and in a stentorian voice cried Children C Results were immediate Children appeared from ever every direction Some of the children were grown men and women others were barely II able ble to I I toddle forth and one still was being carried car car- ried in arms Bland sa says s 's it is no more trouble to bring up fifty children than it is to raise ten After you ou pass ten he says the older ones are a a. big help The children were not unusually noisy Bland said although they made consid consid- erable crable racket when when- fourteen were taken down together with whooping cough The Bland grocery bill is equivalent to about a week weel although Bland produces produces produces pro pro- duces a large part of his food On one occasion he says he spent most of one night computing the cost of or keeping his family comfortable but that the figures reached such alarming proportions he gave up the Job Bland is 6 65 years old I |