Show r TWENTIETH CHILD IS BORN TO PAIR just as easy to garo caro for 20 as 1 for five declares wife of now new england farmer portsmouth NL II 11 twentieth cen i tury mothers who limit their families i to td one or two children uro tire looked upon with ath scorn by b sirs mrs mary J barton of 4 who presented her husband lemuel with a husky laby baby girl and hung up a now new record tor for large families in new hampshire dura dora II Il attle the name of the latest arrival la Is the twentieth heir to the home ot of barton 13 arton there are no twins or i in the fu family nilly tho the mother of tho the twenty la Is baill 11 young woman she Is forty five years ol 01 old d and not a gray hair la Is visible la in I 1 her head her husband Is fifty live five a typical yankee fa farmei riner who believes mai it Is every mans duty to his country to raise as many good citizen as tho lord will w allow hil him though her lius husband band lias has dlin culty remembering the names and ages of 0 his ten sons and ten daughters daughter 4 mrs barton can rattle olt off their names and bages in chronological order older and without a moments hesitation three of 0 the barton girls havo have married live aro are working ny from homo home and tho the remaining twelve children are playing or working on the nere acre farin fann in Kelle kelleyville a part of newport but six miles fam ruin the center of the town birthdays corni come often T birthdays aro are plentiful nt at tho liar bar ton homestead nearly eve every ry month on the calendar Is by a 1 y child july particularly as five were 1 born in this month f their names were adopted from the relatives on both sides of tho the house si until the iho supply gave out then the th names of friends were used they Is c gover cover a wide range biblical old fash F toned and now tangled names are all represented they ore are nil all fine and healthy thank god said bald mrs airs harton barton 1 all h of my children have lived and the only t sickness they havo have suffered were calill if drens diseases we had a regular fe epidemic of whooping cough in tho the ij house five years ago thirteen of the children had it tit nt once A few years later my husband and twelve of the children were ft pro taken down with the measles meas lei limuel lemuel was very danboi dangerously ous sick and for a time it looked ns as though the children would lose their father fak 4 As 3 ule thi dren atren grow bra older they y are biblo io to L lc if 4 nie ano in caring for the younger ones mrs barton continued the philp lp of course can ann be handed iown down from one to another end and they ore are certainly out elre before they fire are thrown away an afi this hous I 1 love each one na as though he or she ahe vere the only child wo we had bad h ad and babies will continue to be welcome here so ao long as god cares to send them it Is as easy to tako take care of twenty as of five I 1 have found six of the darton children are pupils at tho the rural school a mile frow from tho the farm they comprise one fourth of 0 tho the entire enrollment of the school in past years the bartons made up more than liala of this school the original barton homestead in the south part of the town was the birthplace of eighteen of the children married 30 years mr and mrs barton were married thirty years ago at haverhill N Y where sirs mrs barton lived before her marriage she was mary J young anil and both the husband and wife are descendants ants of revolutionary stocks stock the bartons were among tho the first farnill to settle in NW new hampshire mrs mr bartons ancestors went to Perin syl vania on their arrival from england though mrs barton took no couret in child culture and followed no set of 0 modern rules for roaring rearing children hr her avide experience has qualified fled lier her M u nn an export in motherhood she gives the following rule to mothers teach your children to love and respect you from the very beginning no be firm with thorn them make them obey but do it in such a way that the child will have trust and confidence in you rather than fear give them the best education you can possibly afford and teach them Tell religion glon and the gosp GORDO while their minda tire are impressionable above all accept the children that god sends to you lie ile will always provide for them in some way |