Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — A Large Family. [ARTICLE]

A Large Family.

At the State fair at Dallas, Tex., last fall, they had a “baby show,” open to the world. As fast as the little ones were entered for the contest by their doting mothers the infants were numbered and a large tag marked with the appropriate number placed on their dresses. A typical cowbow, who had been expressing his surprise at whatever attracted his attention, finally noticed a tag on a baby marked seven. “Say, pardner,” he said, “here is a woman who has so many kids she has to number ’em.” Passing on he saw another child with the tag No. 53. “Here is. another one of ’em,” heremarked. “No. 53. Great guns! What a family!” —Detroit Free Press.