Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — Mixed Babies Unmixed by Sharp-Eyed Neighbor [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mixed Babies Unmixed by Sharp-Eyed Neighbor

M RS. DORA DEL PIANA has her Richard and Mrs. Anna Constantlna has her Samuel, and a danger of ferment of social unrest In North Bergen him passed. Richard and Samuel are two years old, and for a time it

appeared each would be reared in a home in which he had not originated, but now each is In the environment nature Intended. ,/' Richard and Samuel were stricken by infantile paralysis and were taken to the Laurel Hills hospital. In about six weeks they recovered and the mothers were notified to take them home. When they called at the hospital the nurses, overwrought and confused by the handling of so many Richards and Samuels and Llsbeths

and Dorothys gave Richard to Mrs. Constantina and Samuel to Mrs. Del Plana and insisted the proper apportionment had been made. Now, if it hadn’t been for Mrs. Schwartz, Richard might have grown up a Constantina and Samuel a Del Piana. “It’s a wise mother that knows her own child,” said Mrs. Schwartz when she called at the Del Piana ITome to Inspect the baby returned as good as hew from the hospital, “and that isn’t your Richard. Looks to me like Mrs. Constnntina’s Samuel.” * Mrs. Del Piana protested that she had a certificate, inviolable, but Mrs. Schwartz was filled with the enthusiasm of social readjustment, and went to Mrs. Constantina’s home. “This isn’t your Samuel,” she decided, gazing upon the expressive and dignified features of the baby in Mrs. Constantina’s lap. “It’s Mrs. Del Piana’s Richard.” And it was so, as the mother agreed when they conferred and made comparisons, and Richard and Samuel are where they belong.