Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — BECOMES A MOTHER AT 62 [ARTICLE]

BECOMES A MOTHER AT 62

Wisconsin Woman Wedded to Young Man Has a Baby in Her Old — ~ Age. Milwaukee, Wis.—“ Fifty-eight years old’ My dear boy, they said that about me four years ago when I went to Kenosha with Albert to be married, where our friends could not make too much of a hubbub about a disparity in our ages. They said then that he was twenty-five and I was fiftyeight. Whrit of it? Love knows no years.” Thus spoke Mrs. Balone Manzke, a mother at sixty-two, or thereabouts, as she fondled the baby girl which some time ago came to their home in Milwaukee to gladden the declining years of the mother and to rejoice the heart of the youthful htisband. And it was a real motherhood that Mrs. Manzke portrayed as she played with her own baby, a mother with her hair showing the advance of years In' JtS. suggestion of .gray. Four years ago the couple went from Zion City to Kenosha to be married. The husband is an expert chem"tstylTT'a Milwaukee laboratory which specializes oh“ perfumery.