Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1915 — This Philadelphia Father Has Some Household [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

This Philadelphia Father Has Some Household

PHILADELPHIA. —The father of seven-year-old Pamine Veluccl is not a lightning calculator and he offered his lack of education as an excuse the other night for pot knowing that little Pamine was missing from his homo,

729 Kimball street. It takes time for Mr. Veluccl to count. How, indeed, may the father of sixteen children know when one is not home without taking the census? Policeman Kain found little Pamine at Fifty-second and Market street, far away from home. He took the little fellow out to the Twentyninth street police district, and the lad told where his home was. Hopse Sergeant Abrams telephoned down to the Thirty-third district, telling them

to go around and tell the family that Pamine was found. When a policeman went into the house and gave this information, the elder Velucci said it was not his child that was found, because, indeed, no child of his was missing Whereupon the police were much puzzled and there was considerable tele phoning and questioning of young Pamine, whose story, however, remained unshaken. Two hours later the father of Pamine came into the station house. He humbly begged the pardon of the police'agents. He was most sorry he had made a mistake when the officer had called. Since then he had made the count He had totaled up the children of the house —the eleven in one family, the ten in another and the sixteen in his own brood and, after much calculation, it was discovered that, in solemn truth, one was missing. So little Pamine was brought home by the police and joined the other thirtysix persons in his house.