FOUR- AND ALL
BOYS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1935.
BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO THE DIONNE
Great interest has been created by the birth of quadruplet boys to Mrs. Victoria Harmsworth in the Royal Free Hospital, London, and hundreds of Inquiries have been made as to their welfare. The mother, who doing well, lives at Watson-street. Stoke Newington.
Here is the first boy to be born. He arrived, at 10.23 p.m. nnd weighe
Bib. 7140%.
Baby boy, number two, born at 10.53
p.m., weighed 2lb. 11⁄2 oz.
QUINTUPLETS
·LONDON MOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO FOUR SONS
THEIR TOTAL WEIGHT WAS LESS THAN FOURTEEN - POUNDS UADRUPLETS—all boys—were born within an hour of each other at the Royal Free Hospital, London, on October 15. Two died a week later.
Twenty-eight-years-old Mrs. Victoria Harms- worth, of Watson-street, Stoke Newington---her- self one of twins-is the mother.
She has three other children, all girls under six years.
of age.
Five women doctors were at the bedside, and as cach baby was born he was wrapped in cotton-wool and placed in a special cot close to his mother.
The first boya rather feeble, bers on the labels tied to their infant-arrived at 10.23 p.m. wrists.
The others were born at 10.53,
X-Ray Warning Every preparation had made in advance for the babies.
uni-
Mother A Twir
and until a few weeks ago was n
11.7, and 11.17 p.m. respectively. Their mother is herself a twin,
All survived. They are expectedly heavy children. The firm believer in the truth of the mother's condition is satisfac-old superstition that a twin can- tory.
not give birth to twins--or more. More than 20 people were pre- been sent at the birth, which was super- four intended by Professor Amy Fleming, chief obstetrician to the hospital. She had another gynævro- logist to hssist her, two sisters and three staff nurses. In addi- tion numbers of doctors attended In case of need and out of interent in the remarkable case.
Doctors, warned by X-ray of their coming weeks ago, had planned their reception down to the last dotail.
Mrs. Harmsworth, whose hus- band is a metal polisher employed at Islington, visited the ante-natal- wing of the hospital some months ago.
An X-ray photograph revealed"] to her the startling fact that she was to have four bables.
Mrs. Harmsworth was a splendid patient and went through her ordeal very well.
The babies altogether weighed 121b. 14oz. The normal weight of one child is about 6. The
Until the birth of the quadrup- first weighed 311. 7%20z., the second Jets was imminent Mrs. Harms-21b. oz., the third alb. 8oz..! worth remained at home, earing and the fourth 3lb. 13oz. for her husband and children.
Special arrangements were made by the hospital authorities so that she could be rushed to Gray's Inn- rond by ambulance at any hour of the day or night.
A nurse present at the arrival of the quadruplets said the mother 'was very brave. Mr. Harmsworth, grandfather of The third boy to greet the work came the babies, said: "The children and
at 11.7 pan. Ills weight was 31. the mother are doing very well.
8/24oz.
This is the first time quadrup- lets have been born at the Royal Free Hospital.
They are being fed every three
CLOSED
TILL AFTER THE
CONE TO ABYSSINIA
S SIDELIGHT IN SOHO
SOHO SIDELIGHT, This was an Italian cafe in London- until the owner's patriotism took him abroad.
$2,000,000 HONGKONG ESTATE DISPUTE IN SCOTLAND
A
DRAFT
WILL
THAT WAS
NEVER SIGNED
CASE raising questions under the will of the late Lord Inchcape, of Glenapp Castle, Ayrshire, was opened hours with glucose salinė, and last month in the High Court at Edinburgh. every six hours they receive a minim of brandy.
'
Royal Namesakes
Already Mrs. Harmsworth has decided on the names for her four boys. They are:
George (after the King), Albert (after the Duke of York, president of the hospital), Victor (after herself Vic toria), and Alfred (after their father).
Gurgling lustily, the quadruplets had their first newspaper Interview
The last birth of quadruplets in England was at Southend-on-Sea in November 1934, and there were also enses at Birmingham in March when they were 1934 and at Southwark in Septem- hours old. ber-1992---
Every care known to medical science is being taken to guard the first quadruplets to be born in thei Royal Free; so precious are, they even their mother, Mrs. Victoria Harmsworth, whose home is in Watson Road, Stoke Newing- ton, is only allowed to peep at them.
that
They lay side by side in an elec- trically-heated cradle. On the left the is the eldest, and the youngest is beaviest He weighed 3lb. 13oz. and on the right. But the only differ- ence between them is in the num-
The last of the quadruplets was
arrived nt 11.17 p.m.
Shanghai Bride's Offer
To King of Abyssinia
MRS. MURIEL PAWLEY, the young English bride whose courage made her world-famous when she was carried off by Chinese bandits, hopes shortly to go to Abyssinia—as a nurse.
"I don't know what my husband will say about my decision, but I am pretty sure he will be violently against it. He is on his way-back from China now," she said recently.
"The iden came to me when I read of the Abyssinian's in- adequate Red Cross service.
"I have little experience of nursing, but I believe any English girl, willing to help, would be invaluable to Abyssinians,"
tho
Since her return to Britain, Mrs. Pawley, has been erasing the memory of her prolonged ordeal. She has also found time to complete a book "My Bandit Hosts," which was published last month.
Wants Adventuro
"I thought. I had experienced enough excitement to last me a lift-time," Mrs. Pawley con- fessed "Now I suppose my liking for travel and a bit of adventure` is breaking out again,
"But above--all-that-is-the feeling that help is so pitifully needed among the Abyssinians."
MRS. PAWLEY
"I don't know what my husband.
·will say."..
less than
two
The four children--the present Lord Inchcape, and his three sisters, Lady Bailey, Lady Millington Drake, and Lady Margaret Shaw-agreed that certain pencil altera- tions on the will should be treated as having no effect, but some of the grandchildren are questioning this.
Lord Inchcape's estate was valued | for probate at £2,124,707, on which duty of £1,027,447 was payable.
Over $2,000,000 was admitted for probate in Hongkong, the duty exceeding $1,000,000. The statement of the ease was The gurgling demonstrated that Lord Inchenpe made his will beyond doubt their well-being. ber, 1930, he asked his soliciters on October 22, 1929 In Septem" They presented a quaint, doll- like picture as they lay in their to send him the will, and on May 4, 1932, he returned to them the will, specially eletrically heated Cat which he had made some cradles. The eldest was placed on the extreme left and his pencilled alterations. brothers wore beside him.
She Opened A Doctor's Letter--
The solicitors then sent him n clean draft will embodying the pancilled alterations, carofully marked for signature and explain- led that it would be suflicient if he signed in Monte Carlo, where he then was, with two witnesses who could give English addresses.
Died Before Signing
The clean draft will; sent to him on May 9, 1932, was never signed by him, but was found in his re- pository after his death on May 23, 1932.
for order to obviate disputes.
LADY ALICE
CREATES VOGUE
Northampton, Oct. 30. Already Lady Alice Scott colour has created a new -vogue-in ladies' footwear.
Following the exhibition în London of a pair of walking shoes made in green calf, to be presented to Lady Alice as a wedding gift from a North- ampton firm, an order for 2,000 pairs has already been received.
em-
"It means full-time ployment for many, and it is quite likely that. further ordera will follow," Mr. Ernest Bordoli, secretary of the Boot Manufacturers' As- sociation, said.
MONEY KINGS
OF AMERICA-
AND COULD NOT BEAR THE TRUTH JOAN Richmond pretty 21-between the testator's children as
years-old art student, of to their respective rights in the FAMILY THAT LIVES IN King's Beanch-street, Hull, was residue of the estate un agree-
FEUDAL SPLENDOUR killed by curiosity.
ment was entered into by which She went to see an opticland they authorised the trustees to
New York, Oct. 22. about her eyes, which had been administer the estate on the foot. The greatest "money kings" in troubling her,
ing that the will of October 22, America are not the Rockefellers; The optician gave her a letter 1929, contained the final testa- the Fords, the Morgans or to her doctor.
mentary dispositiona of Lord Mellons but the Du Ponts, of Dola- On the way to her doctor Inchcape, and agreed that the ware, according to Mr. John K. curiosity .overcame her. She pencilled alterations and deletions Winkler, biographer of American opened the letter.
should be treated an having no industrialists and financiers. testamentary effect.
Mr. Winkler has now added. "The Questions, however, have now Du Pont dynasty" to his list of It contained a peculiar word been raised by certain of the works. which she could not understand. testator's grandchildren 疗队 to
So she went to the local library whether the pancilled alterations "Hidden in one of the smallest and looked up the word in a re-upen the will have testamentary states of the Union, living in
Puzzling Word
ference book.
The definition revealed to Joan that she was suffering from an eye disease that was incurable.
effect.
to her doctor. Instead, Joan was the case, said the only question later found dead with her head was
the
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feudal splendour, is a singular family, proud, aloof, prolife, which Cutting Out a Daughter
to-day controls a greater alice of American wealth than has IN Mr. T. M. Cooper, K.C., Solici-
over before fallen into privato The letter was never delivered tor-General for Scotland, opening hands," Mr. Winkler writes.
"They what were the late Lord
Du Ponts, of on a cushion in a gas oven.
Inchcape's final testamentary dis- Delaware. Unlike the Morgans, She could not bear the thought positions.
the Mellons, the Rockefellers and other financial giants of yesterday, seo the When he glories of nature, which, as a former will
died suddenly the now visibly contracting and re- which was then aspiring artist, she longed to operation was the will made
in trenching, thega Du Ponta are not on only the outstanding money kings
of losing the power to
paint.
are the
October 22, 1929. The main bene-of the day but still in nacondancy, She left a letter apologising feiaries were his widow and four Nor is their aupremacy threatened to the doctor for opening his children-the present Lord Inch by any rival."-Central News. letter.
"If the letter had been posted cape and his three sisters, Lady
instead of being given to the girl, Lady, Margaret Shaw.
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At the time of his doath he was very large residue which he left. And the coroner, returning a verdict of Suicide while of Un unquestionably in process of carry- The question was whether he soundMind at the Inquest ng out a fundamental alteration had done so in a form to which Ho appealed to
In his testamentary dispositions, the Court would attribute legal to give latters to patients to be the effect of which was to cut out effect.
handed on
doctors
not
his daughter, Lady Shaw, and her The hearing was adjourned.
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