Show TOO LITTLE FOR CHRISTMAS So Says Father of Smallest Baby in the World t 0 jv 1 t 14 Q A S 0 tsar 4 I F i I v tI v 1 5 S I I s fl-s il M Mother other and the tiny ounce 20 baby they call Zero N. N E. E A. A Special Correspondent BOSTON Mass Dec 25 Zero Zero otherwise Josephine DI Napoli daughter daugh daugh- ter of ot Mr and Mrs Edouardo Di Napoli Na- Na poll poli of ot Endicott street Boston has confounded the wiseacres of medicine In Boston by living and gaining weight every day In spite of her handicap of ot twenty ounces weight while her twin which weighed at birth on November 25 over four pounds died within twentysIx twentysix ty six hours One cannot have much of ot a ChrIstmas ChristI Christmas Christ Christ- I mas for a baby says Edouard Di Dl Napoli Na Na- poll poli the father who works at his trade of ot barber every day but we are all allwell allwell allwell well and getting along I have five other children and you know it takes a lot to feed and get clothes for so many besides my wife and me We had the little one baptized Josephina as soon as she was born when we did not know if It she might live but the doctors up at the Boston Lying-in Lying hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital nicknamed her Zero They say she is the littlest baby they ever saw there in many years but she is doing well in the Incubator and gains over an ounce a day dav In five days she had doubled her weight Her mother goes up to the hospital nearly every day and gives It some milk and it has other infant food be be- be sides It probably will never be very big but I notice lots of ot small girls nowadays and that's no handicap if it they are smart Zero or Josephine is the pet and pride of the hospital not only because of or her diminutive size sire but Dec B dause use of ot other her plucky y fight for life in tb of big odds In fact tact the odds were all against such a small baby living b beyond be yonda yond rond a few hours It seemed scented to have little vitality but was healthy healthY and I soon responded to the expert care cate given given en by Dr Howard Sawyer the physician physician hsi cian clan in charge and Superintendent Hiss Charlotte W. W Dana of ot the hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital with Nurse Miss Sleep At the time of ot its birth we might have placed Zero comfortably In a teapot but she soon oon began to gain strength and grows at the rate of ot an ounce every two days She now weighs over forty ounces Even that is 15 below the normal wel weight ht for a baby of ot its age We Ve call her Zero said Miss Sleep who has done everything possible for the infant because because because be cause her weight continually fluctuated about the zero mark on our charts |