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Show LEGiON VVOMAN.MOTHER OF 21 Mrs. Jacob Caranek, Healthy and Happy, Holds Record Among Producers Pro-ducers of Americans. .Mrs. .Jacob Caranek, who runs a neal little grocery store in New r- r-t f leans and uierein sells butter and eggs, bread, in e.u t s . canned corn and maybe the necessities for making those delicious de-licious Southern pecan candies. Is also c h a m p ion mother of the American Legion Auxiliary. She Is, at teasl, until anne one comes along who is the mother of 22 children, to beat Mrs. Cararek's 21. A child had come to Mrs. Caranek's house each year for 21 years when America eiuered t lie World war. Which of the 21 was dearest to her she herself could hot loll, but when the two eldest boys, Joseph and I.ouis. went away to war the lare Caranek family was cast into shadow. "Vi'hat else should I do';" Mrs. Caranek questioned. ques-tioned. "Thry are Americans and their country needs them. If it Is a duty to raise children, it is right lo make them love Iheir country." I'.ut when Joseph and i.ouis came home -Ji):-eph served overseas with. the Rainbow Rain-bow division and fought In four big finltles. while I.ouis (ought in and atiund Camp I'.eauregard the little L'toet ry store could scarce contain the joy fill celebration. Mrs. Caranek came to America when she was fifteen years old. leaving her native viilaire of I'elravice in Czechit-slovakia. Czechit-slovakia. She is forty-seven years old now and her husband is til ty-eiirbt. The youngest child is six years old and the oldest twenly-ciL'ht. Mrs. Caranek has been to bu( one inoi ion-picture show in her life ami she left before that one was over. She works from live in the morning until ten at night in her grocery. And she hasn'i a gray-hair gray-hair and has never been sick but once and cn.'oys life. |