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Show FATHER PROUD OF 34 CHILDREN Eighteen Still at Home; Mother I Often Lonesome tor nm Those Gone WASHINOTi iN. N. C. Dec 17. Foi H many Representative Small of H North i arullna has by agreement been PH presenting to R. c. Bland, a patollnl H tanner. ,uid one of his constltuontfl !a now suit of clothe for each addl- H ' tionai child in hit family. Having pre- MntCd thirteen suits, und being; recent-Iy recent-Iy notified to send the fourteenth. Rtepreaentatlve small has informed H that the contraot win "off H with Mr Small from H congress on March 3. H Small and Bland made their com- H a number nf vcars ago when H Small Was muklng a campaign speech H ; nt RobeiHon vllle. near Bland H then had twenty children: he now H has thlrt -fou) i Twent-slx of the thirty-four Bland j children are living and the present mUMMm I Mrs. Bland. Bland's second wife, is ; the mother of nineteen, nine of whom H J were born during the last ten yea) Lrnrn including one hci of twins Klghte. n t H I children still live at home, many have StiiiH gone aBBBaV Mr. and Mr?. Bland recently h.io Wt a group photograph taken of the B family still remaining on tho Bland B farm While the photographer was BBBBj forking a bustard caat its shadow H on the ground. Bland wa3 asked f W ii"- was BHBH "No." he said, "I'm not afraid of hutzai.K but at Ural I thought the BBHl blamed thing was a stork." In calling the children together for MHVHN I Die photograph, Llund slmplv cupped BBflBl his hands and in a stentorian voice .1 cried: Children."' Results wore im- ' 'H m dlate ai.p-rired from ev- ery direction. Some of the child- H , ren were grown men and women; oth- BBflBl era were barely able to toddle forth nnd one .-till wad being curried In HjbVjH , Bland aayg It is nn reore trouble to I bring up fifty childien than it is to After you pass ten," he says, "the IHVAH old.-r u-.. log help " The children were not unusuallv ttVBHl noisy. Bland .said although 'thev mad".- considerable racks) hen fourteen were taken together with whoop- Ing cough." ni.u.,1 grocery hill ! M r'"lv l" aboui $150 a week. M , Hl1 b large part 1 m Vr ie occasion he saya I . he spent most of tho night computing I the port of keeping hts family comfort- able, but thai the figures reached such Bi job1""11"6 Jjroi,orUon!5 he gave up the BVKV Bland In 0,i. |