Show BIG 1315 AND LITTLE BABIES A new corker weighs ono ona round pound at birth a philadelphian is larger the new york orld is a library of curious information every E ey week it publishes accounts of phenomenally strong people and their achievements of giants pig mies b big ig and little babies old and young prodigies gies in short a full fill acco account of all the curious happenings i and people of the earth tha rho smallest emal lest baby in the world according corling ac to the sunday world is frances donnelly of no columbus avenue I 1 new ew york she is a remarkable baby and has puzzled doctors and aures when born she weighed a trine trifle more than a pound and now when she is three months old she ony only weighs five and a half pounds pound the doctors 11 nhen hen the tiny child was born said slip she could not live and so eo did the nurses but little miss donnelly has ups t their predictions the donnelly Dono elly baby is perhaps the smallest one that was ever born she opened her eyes on the world three months before she was expected to that thai is why the doctors and nurses shook their heads grimly and said the child could not live that she ebe did is due to the extraordinary care devoted to her by b y her grandmother she fed the baby through a tiny quill with brandy anise seed tea and sugar and water alternately alternate lv for three weeks prances frances showed few sins of life her eyes never opened during all that time and only on occasional wail showed she was alive after twenty one days mr roth the was rewarded awarded by seeing the little eyes open and blink feebly in the strong glare glae of the bayli daylight ht thereafter she ehe throve rapidly and finally got big enough to be seen in bed without the aid of a microscope even then so certain did it seem that a child of her tin tiny y inize size could not live that the doctor rejected the idea of trying to bring her up in n an incubator saying that it was only a question of days if not hours when she would die mrs roth did not argue with him but continued to nurse miss frances in her own fashion and the little lady grew gradually until at the aae age oi of two months she weighed weil hed nearly four pounds when a reporter call to see eee her francis was asleep dressed in c lothes clothes that would eardly eaf ily fit a big french doll that speaks and opens and closes its eyes A 25 cent piece covered either of lier her hands and a dime concealed an ear her mouth was just distinguishable gui guiE hable by a slight line that looked like a very fine white thread there were doll stockings on ahe tiny liny little feet the eyes were large and expressive the nose in proportion to the other features although co tiny each feature fe is perfect and all d francis gives gires promise of becoming an unusually pretty girl gir 1 if the midget looked small on the p pillow illow the ehe looked even tinier when pressed to the ample bosom of her grandmother A request to hold francis for just a minute was at first refused by mrs roth who shook her head bead dubiously and said eaid it would never do but finally the reporter was allowed to hold the precious morsel of humanity it was difficult to realie realize even then thit that frances was a real aure enough h baby her weight was not appreciable and she did not cry she is now beino being fed from the bottle on diluted condensed milland is just as healthy as she can be sho she ha has s so BO far not suffered from any of the usual infantile complaints STILE OF DAB baul the sunday world gives a description crip tion of the very biggest baby that has ba s yet come to the knowledge of the public he is edward L karn son eon of mrs A E karn no 1810 taylor street philadelphia ile he is two years old and 73 pounds ilia his other measurements are as follows height 40 inches head 21 inches neck 1 I 1 15 inches forearm 8 inches arm length aen ath 16 inches chest 53 33 inches waist 35 25 inches biceps inches calf 13 inches thigh inches ankle aj S inches study these measurements says the worm world and you cannot fail to be properly proper lv im pressed impressed ita ile is in particularly ticul arly striking when compiled comp ired WI with th the other oiher b baby ably and which has the li of being the s smallest ai infant ever born |