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TO BRING BACK .”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936.

FIVE MOTHERS ARE ON LAST LAP OF AMERICA'S BEAUTY OF

BABY RACE

(By. A Special Correspondent)

Toronto, Aug. 20,

FIVE women in this city are hoping that

twins, triplets, or quadruplets will be born to them within the next three months.

They are all expecting babies within that period, and the mother who has the most will win the £100,000 prize in the famous Stork Marathon: Four of them are convinced they are going to have twins. One of them told me that she would not be surprised if she had quads.

The strange marathon began ten years ago, when the will of Charles Vance Millar, bachelor lawyer, offered £100,000 to the Toronto mother who produced the greatest number of children by October 31, 1936.

If Mr. Millar could have foreseen the misery- and jealousy that he was to cause, I think he would have cut the marathon out of his will.

BEAUTIES WEDS

I shall always be haunted by the hopeleas ex- pression on the face of Elleon Graziano, aged thir-D AIR LI teen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gua Graziano. There are eight younger than she, and now that Mrs. Graziano had had another-she expected twins so is now out of the race--Eileen has to be a little mother,

There are five chairs in the house, and half the family has to stand up to meals.

"I donna like a that," said Mr. Graziano, forty- six-year-old hefty Italian, who has been on relief for five years. "If I'd won this prize-and, be- lieve me, I thought my wife was going to have twins this time I'd have bought a street of houses so that poor people like us could live rent free.

"Somebody's gotla 'av children. Whose gonna protect the country if we 'av a war?"

Mrs. Graziano, dishevelled and weary, sat on the window-ledge because there was nowhere else to sit. "Yes, I am tired," she said. "I'm glad that the strain is all over."

"The doctor told me she was gonna

have

Mr. twins," chimed in Graziano.

"And if one of 'em was a boy he was gonna be called Mussolini Graziano, the winner of the Stork Marathon. Now it's all over."

CLOSE FINISH

Mrs. Graziano has had eight chill- dren registered since October 31,

had 1926. She

to have twins to tie with Mrs. Arthur Hollis Tim- leck, who is actually fending the Beld at the moment with ten regis- tered children, nine of whom alive.

are

AHEGRESSI

Until the other day It was Miss Jean Chatburn, film player. and Frank Orsatii. her business manager. But now it's a family affale, the pair having become "Mr. and Mr.." when they hired a United Airlines plane and flew to Yuma to wed. Last year Miss Chatburn won a newspaper contest as "America's Most Beautiful Girl."

World

Of

Short

Bread

Chicago, Aug. 10.

THERE is a world shortage of more than 60,090,000 bushels of grain caused by drought, according to estimates reported by Chicago's experts.

They point out that nearly every large wheat belt in the One of the tragedies of this mara-world produced less than the normal crop this year. thon is that sixty-two children have

Figures were produced to show that not enough wheat will Leen born to seven muthers and flf-be harvested this year to provide consumers with their normal ration tech of them have died.

of bread.

Mrs. Arthur Timleck does not want any more children.

"When we were first married," she said, "a fortune teller assured us that..we should not have any chli- dren, so we adopted one. Since then we have had seventeen youngsters, and fourteen are alive.".

The folllest little mother in this race is Mrs. Matthew Kenny, pelite French Canadian wife of a bald- headed Irishman who hasn't done any work for three years. She has nine children registered in the ten years.

"I have had three sets of twins siready, so why shouldn't I have some more," she said. "Put your money on me, Mister.".

a forty- Mrs. Groee Bagnato, three-year-old Italian got out of bed to see ine. Of the nine babies she has registered during the marathon period only three are alive.

She expects a baby any day.

TEN UNDER 14

According to the experts, figures of current production of wheat total 4,639,726, bushels, which, added to 035,000,000 bushels in hand, gives a work nggregate of 5,274,726,000 bushels. The world consumed 5,298,800,000 bushels last year, say the

experts..

HUSBAND'S PITY THAT

TURNED TO LOVE

A smartly dressed young man made a pathetic appeal for his wife at Southend recently when she was charged with stealing £4 10% from the till of a Leigh shop.,

Mrs. May Smith (30), of Mornington Crescent, Hadleigh, Essex, was sent to prison for three months.

She consented to three other charges of stealing stamps from two sub-post offices and £18 from the London Co-operative Society at Hadleigh, being taken into consideration. She ad- mitted having been previously convicted of larceny.

"This money," said the husband, "has gone to a monster, a iscoundrel. He was the man my wife lived with for two or three

Mr. and Mrs. John Nagle have a years, and when I met her she was most unhappy. I was sorry family of ten-all under fourteen for her and I married her.

and nine born since the marathon began. Another one-or more-is expected on August 10,

Mrs. Ambrose Harrison, forty-

tramway cnri. year-old wite of a driver, has had fourteen children in her married life, and they are all

15 Mrs. Harrison proud

nlive. then!.

01

"If I don't win the marathon," she said, "I shall still be proud of my family."

Eight of her fourteen children are in the marathon and Mrs. Harrison Biys: "I go on having children even if I am beaten for the Millar

prizo.

Mussolini -Father

Venice, Aug. 21. MUSSOLINI acted as nurse- maid to-day. He put his eight-year-old son Romano bed for an afternoon siesta at the Intel Danli here.

10

While the boy slept the Duce lunched in the publio dloing room of the hotel with the regular guests.

After the alesta Mussolini and Romano left for Venice by air.

The Girl Whose Dream Came True

New York, Aug, 15.

EVERY working girl in the world has dreamed herself

married to her wealthy boss.

The dream came true to-day for thirty-two-year-old Lola Lafferty, who for ten years has pounded a typewriter for the millionaire Walter B. Walker.

Sho was awakened this morning by the alarm clock, put the

kettle on, helped her room-mate to get breakfast.” Tomorrow morning she will have thirty servants at her call. She will be the mistress of a palatial home on the banks of

the Hudson River.

She will be part owner of Mr. Walker's £2,000,000 fortune.

Said Mr. Walker:

LOY THE THIN MAN" "Miss Lafferty is one of our best girls. But her business

career is over. She will not work any more.

"From just being sorry for her," he said, "I got to love her; and we were very happy. Then she met this mun again.

"He had just served a term of imprisonment, and he said to her: 'I want money from you, and if I don't get it I shall write to your husband's husband and to your father and tell them that you have served terms of imprisonment and that you were my creature for two or three years.'

BOTH BREAK DOWN

The husband added: "My wife had no money, and the man said to her You could pawn your wedding ring.' She has sent money to this man to Ja post office in London. He has had altogether between £20, some of which has been stolen,"

Husband and wife broke down, the former being assisted from the witness-box and the latter being carried from the court.

The chairman (Mr. H. H. Burrows) said that the husband's allegations would be investigated by the police.

POPE'S ILLNESS.

| CONDITION, CAUSES ANXIETY TO DOCTORS

Rome, Sept. s.

His Holiness the Pope has been advised to remain in bed for a few

days because of a slight attack of bronchial catarrh, which is causing his medical advisers anxiety.

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