Show A ATTER OF BABIES six at a birth that Is something out of the common way of et family con st ruction the news came over the wires that a woman worn an in texas had bad dip aft herself in this prolific manner tut but it was scarcely credited by the reading public for these telegraphic sensations are often strikingly unreliable however the event it appears did act aall bally occur and tor for the especial benent of our oar lady readers we clip some paragraphs in relation to the matter from a special to the st louis republic it Is dated dallas texas ncik 7 ath th and states that this sextuple birth ablith took place ou on the afternoon of the me ard 3rd just mrs hirsh is twenty seven ye years ars old she has been married five years and is the nemier of three childre child renall Ball living gave birth to her last interesting brood the oldest of the children a sirl girl is now tour four years and three months old the second necona one a boy bey is three years and five months old and aad the third a girl is not yet quite two years old of the six born on last saturday four are boss bos and two are girls A republic reporter visited the hirsh family yesterday the homestead is partly in navarro navarre and partly in ellis house bouse being beinuhn tin navarro it east by north of licea station on the houston texas central railroad about seven miles mile from the Trini trinity river about sixteen miles from corsicana Corsi caca and about ab out twelve miles from ennis george hirsh me head bead of the interesting household household is a native of pennsylvania of german parentage he lived tor for eleven years yn in Fraux lyn county mo and has been to in texas lor for eight years past st he is 37 years old 6 5 feet 10 inches no herh and weighs lears pounds he is it a substantial farmer owns own acres of land more than halt of wh which I 1 ch is c ulal bated and lie be lives in a plain but comfortable comfor for table log house mrs hirsh is a native of bavaria but was brought to this country when an infant and lived in warren county mo moi from her childhood until 1879 when she moved with her parents to texas they settled in comal county where the father died in she was married to mr hirsh at san marcos and immediately afterward moved to her present home in navarro county her mother resides ner and also a sister of mr hirsh a young woman aged 22 the ane republican reporter rode to the hirsh homestead from rice there were ton ten teams hitched to trees and wagons wagon surrounding the house bouse and it looked as it if the whole neighborhood had assembled to pay its respects to the new arrivals the republican man hitched his bis horse like the others and walked in without ceremony the house was crowded with ly matrons matrona mat rons from general appearance though there were a couple evidently young girls tile house was constructed of lois logs well caulked caulker caul ked and decorated on the inside with pictures I 1 taken from the illustrated papers p e s two rooms comprised the iante interior divisions and lu in the outer room which wae used lor for the double doable purpose of el kitchen and bedroom the family and visitors were assembled several little squeals were going in unison when the reporter entered and as many matronly voices were indulging in soothing baby talk in a corner of toe room stood a huge bedstead and on it hill hall lying halt reclining pr propped 0 aped up by pillows rested mrs hirsh she looked pale dale but not beeble she was waa decidedly cheerful and joked merrily with ner her neighbors shy she held one of the babies in her arms and patted its little head bead softly the reporter inquired for mr hir kirsh and that gettleman with a half shamefaced sope appearance arance stepped out from rom a dark corner near the fireplace lie he also held one of the bables babies in his bis arms arins the family consists now of the lather father and mother nine children mrs petrie mrs mother and miss hirsh the sitter of tse toe head of the house 41 k 4 mrs hirsh was taken sick suddenly at 1 saturday afternoon sli she 0 did not expect to be confined tor or two weeks later the first birth occurred occur reil at there was neither doctor nor midwife present nor any of the family save mrs petrie petre ana the children the first one born was the girl now callea victoria ten minutes after afier the hirm of the child and when mrs hirsh thought that her trouble was over mrs petrie went out to call mr ikirt ti li from abe field where he be was picking cotton she was absent about seven minutes and when she returned mrs hirsh had given birth to two more chil children dien buys boys tine slie had sc scarcely arcey tima to express her wonder and take up the little things when a fourth was born the girl louisa al tais period mr hirsh and as he did while he was trying to assist his bis mother in law with the ille new arrivals the fifth chi child id wap was born bor 11 then surprise turned to wonder aud and astonishment mrs hirsh became very vary weak and her mother attended to her while the tae father surveyed his hid four naked nuked infants lying on a bud bed and three of them squealing lustily mrs hirsh continued to prow grow weaker accompanied compa comp nied by ter rift pains mrs al rs petrie left her for an instant to get some hot water and while she was ib absent the sixth child was born at this time miss hirsh returned to the house bouse and helped to care lor for the baties babies after the birth of the last child mrs mm hirsh began to grow better rapidly the pains vanished and she took a good draft of strong homemade home made wine wice there was a lapse of about seventeen minutes between the birth of the first and second child toe the second third fourth anti and flath were born within twelve minutes and there was a lapse of bf about an hour and forty minutes between the fifth and sixth the order of the birth of the children except the girls is unknown ine boys were mixed up after th their ir birth and no one knows which of jhc thc them is the oldest or youngest the deformity noted in one of tte boys was not discovered for several hours after his birth the harshe 11 are simple ignorant cople people the mother worked in the held id picking cotton until within a couple of aurs of the birth of the children she is a big strong woman and walked about tile house looking after her children within forty eight hours hour after the birth of the last one she is afraid that little louise will not live but she is nursing her tenderly neither mr nor mrs hirsh seem to 10 have any doubts that the others wi will survive mrs hirsh has ample amal e maternal food tor for one of the children but has scarcely enough tor for two four of the children took naturally to the milk bottle the children are carefully I 1 11 tagged to preserve their identity dent ity lough thoughts though as stated before beto rethe the boy s were mixed up at their birth |