| Show A MOTHER A mazroll who hal N M rest I 1 1 mso wn was A most moot ox t ra 0 woman in her peculiar line and ono one who is is largely responsible for the rapid increase in in ill the tile population of philadelphia delp liki within the past fifty years is an all old lady living on oil columbia avenue in the northern pait part city the N Y mei wiy says she is is the tho mother of no less than twenty one children the most oi ot whom arc are living ing A re odthe efer cury recent recently fk visited this wholesale mother the reporter was ushered into the eitting bitting dooin of her dence one evening and at firt first lie was doubtful whether lie had bad dropped in on it sunday school in session or a miscellaneous s party there was certainly enouf 1 human material matet present to make t cither either or both the old lady consented to give full particulars providing sho she said iid you do not publish my name I 1 liko like to have it aprea epical all i over creation that I 1 have so blany many children I 1 tho the required promise being fre freely c evere given she said yes john an and married when I 1 was sixteen cri john jolin he lie was just twenty five and a handsomer man could not be found in philadelphia even if I 1 do say it myself about A out a year and a after our marria marriage c I 1 astonished him by presenting resenting niini him with triplets envell well says he lie mary this is a good beginning anyhow chow john v was as only a poor shoemaker then and three added to a family all at tit once did make a great daffier clice but three lovelier babies could not noi be found in philadelphia even if I 1 do say it ray myself self and so we thou thought glit wed get alope two years after I 1 became the mother of twins I 1 could see that john felt a little blue over this but he lie would have liis his little joke would john jolin well mary says lie youre not doing doirs any worse anyhow it was a little tittle better thauvic god fifteen months after that I 1 bore one child only a dear little boy all ali I 1 then we wo had a grand glorious I orious family jollification jo john in for for I 1 the first time in his life got as drunk as a lord ah ali sis said lie weve weve got down to a proper economical basis at last at that time I 1 was only twenty one years old and I 1 tell you what to be tho the mother of i oki at that age seemed very acer queer but still I 1 thought the worst was over many man women at double that ag age do not ll 11 have ve larger families than mine mine was then two years passed by and I 1 again became a mother this time to our aston astons ashment ish ment it proved to bo be another pair of twins john got tight again but ut this time from sorrow and not from joy mother says he lie this is awful youre right i john jolin says 1 I but these two were a lovely level little boy and girl and their cute little ways and beauty soon put fresh lie hope c and courage in in our hearts solin john opened a little shop work w ork was br iskand all went w ent smoothly along until a year and a half afterward when we ire had another pair of twins this broke john all up and ho lie went on oil a enree espreo for abree weeks old woman says he lic 11 1 I cant support a whole country well ivell I 1 soothed and sobered him up and got him to working again for tho the lord knows there was need of it then during the next ten tell years I 1 only had six children births only john and I 1 be began an to feel very much encouraged all ali sis al says he be we wont have so much of a family after all three th ree years went away without any addition to my fai family nily when in my thirty eighth yen yea I 1 presented my iny amazed husband with a pair of twins other mother says he lie this is astonishing they have come in a worse who had for fora A number of years done very well in his business had just made a bad failure but the older children were nvere working and we put the best face we could en oil the tile matter two 0 years after and M lieu I 1 was in my fortieth year to our unbounded surprise I 1 boio bore another set of triplets this I 1 think killed poor john yes sillies sir lies dead died ten years year ago sago this coming june says he lic 1 I think ivo Iv lived long enough this remarkable ivoin woman all is 60 0 years of age hale liale hearty and well 91 preserved reserved her lier parents came from scotland marrying and settling in this country early in life her husband was of irish descent iia s parents also emigrated to tile United States when quite young yep yes tho the old lady said wo did after a while have trouble to find tho tile right kind of names for the babies a ferat it was easy enough but after wo we had used up all our family names we Q were bothered a bors good bit I 1 used to have the neighbors call in and wed hao bave a great time tb thinking inking of names but ono one day Joh ngot an all almanac which had in m ai t a long on list of boys and birli names and a nd then wo we were all right of my child children ren eleven v were ere boys aal and ten were girls all aro are living but two one son who died in his fourth year from ere croup up and a little girl who was run over by a street car when she was three ye years ar a old and killed you see I 1 had so eo many i little things running aroun around d at a timo that it waa wathard hard for nae ine to look after them all all tho the ret rest of my iny family aie are hearty and well 1 |
