Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1950 — Page 25

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Citizens hereabouts produce, I believe, the largest fam-

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Five minutes by motor from i my hotel I met 15 families

who have (or will s6bn have); more than 10 youngsters

each. One has 19, one 18, ARC XT The secret of this productivity, | natives insist, mountain air, simple food, hard! work, little worry and good! strong wine. Life creeps along with blink- | ing electricity the only modern!

annoyance and the fidgetings. of

the world below remote and.uninteresting. ATOP a kindly peak snoozing! in a snowy suit I visited Mr. and| Mrs. Rodolfo Alfreider, producers! of 17 bouncing bambini. They! never lost a child, To belly up to the warmth of | the huge kitchen stove I had to| hurdle 19 pairs of drying ski boots, the Alfreider regiment hav-

Ing just returned from outside!

chores, Like university students lined | up to ‘receive diplomas the Alfreiders were presented to me. | Even Mom, 47, and Pop, 59, had | trouble recalling each name. They did so only. with considerable prompting from the small fry. | Reading from age 25 to age 2

I met: Floriano, Pietro, Maria! ____

Caterina, Ottone, Natalino, Noturge, Agostino, Rita, Valerio, eresa, Stefani, rado, Antonio, Mario and Vincenzo. rr . DINNER “id ike feeding time, at the zoo. The family circled a|

huge table like a meeting of the :

"board of diréctors.’ Mom filled three almost bot-| tomless pots with ministrone soup. Spoons but no dishes were issued and all hands invaded the community pots; the smallest | with some drooling aid. : After the ministrone a tow] dozen roast potatoes were dis-| tributed. Meat is a once-monthly

flour and milk compound. Lunch! features German type “knodels.”) | A mearger diet? Yes. But if you saw the bursting goed health -—the broad shoulders and snowreddened cheeks—you’'d question our nervous diet of proper calories and vitamins. » ” ” NO ALFREIDER ever had a dentist’s drill or a thimble of medicine in his mouth. Every one was born in the large room upstairs. Mom works until two, three hours before scheduled time-of-arrival. | Older daughters act as mid-wives. | “The little children are getting) steps by steps into the clothing of the older ones,” said. Mom, when I discussed attire. The house has a kind of orderly madness with shrieks. of laughter and the babble of 19 voices filling in-for nonexistent radio.

They all” automatically assume}

responsibility, - dréssing, and guiding the youngest. When one gets slapped around

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“by -& neighbor’s-son he can say:

“I'll tell my big brothers—all 13] of them!” 2 x = Lee EACH Alfreider schools until 34, then labors on the family farm or aids a villager.

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By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent __CORVARA, Italy, Mar. 16-—Do you have 17-children?'

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ain Air, Strong Wine

With his tanklike sons running {the farm Signor Alfreider, who ‘has a mustache like two shaving

{ Albergo But life

'osta, the local inn. is an 18-hour grind for

| Mom—trom 4:30 a. m. until 10:30] .

p. m. She makes her own soap.

|Waghday looks like the deck of 3

a battleship with all flags displayed. Mom even manufactures every|

wheel that was creaking before Columbus got seasick. The army is allocated space in five bedrooms, with two or three} in each suck.

2 | THE REIGN , Benito Musso-| lini was good pickings for the Al-| freiders. The deceased Duce plugged for battalions of bambi jand rewarded each newcomer with| la fat bonus. Signor Alfreider was {forever collecting. Today Mrs. - Alfreider bulges| suspiciously. When I inquired, ahem, she blushed like a newly-| wed and nodded. Pop said: “We'll just keep on| having children as God wills it.”|

~in the vast lore of hoaxes,

‘pushovers-for deception. ~The mo: in this mountain valley called lve of the hoaxers—when

varied as men's weaknesses. case of the Cardiff giant. This tourist business, Chicago stonecutter, was called I. Q. who-are taken in.

stitch. of -cloth- witha spinning!

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES: ul

By EMERY HU HUTCHISON a I man when cov-| ‘ered” in 1889 at Cardiff, N. ¥.

considered — till 1844. CHICAGO, MAR er fironge

Put on exhibition, it brought they | got wise—the nomination of|

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in three days. Barnum,

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. fered $150,000 for t 9d was ré- In 1917 the writer,” H. L.few days. ut only—as far as proof goes fused. Undaunted, a du- Mencken, wrote a fake news-| plicate giant .made. It . toured paper article purporting to tenn More Success] was. Be Safe Sirice Adam, men have been|the country for many years. of the opposition to the introduc-! [ewspajer's ser a a Ces; B Te ~The-equally famous Loch Ness tion 6f the bathtub In America. {lite or Sap yon segyery it monster was never proven to he a i Story Makes a Hit onl moon. sn’t -self-delusion-=have been as hoax. But it should be noted He did it for fun, he said later, Circulation Increases that its rumored existence But he wis appalled to find the

phony, carved from gypsum by a' It isn't only those with a low writings as authentic history. {pulling the public's lég. | | waukee, Wis.,

Are Flying Saucers A Hoax? Men Have Been Badly Fooled Before |

Just the other day United _Na- stirred up a lot of excitement in the cdtegory of hoaxes might be tions officials a Subject for Agu, Re w York Sun blished | * t this much known: The! ed ~the earth. thousands of dollars to the hoax-the nonexistent town of Piffel-| Ne ‘ny - ck Sun publieh ” only evidence of their Sxistene} wile a Phantoms, too, and elves ander, George Hull, a tobacconist of hem for the site of a world! werewolves. Monsters have aris-| | Binghamton, N en from the sea. yAnd saucer-|

shaped spaceships have crossed ang a veteran hoaxer himself, of- petrated, get out of hand. the interplanetary void.

crossing of the Atlantic by balloon are the accounts of “witnesses.” ng “Unlike > Mene- And witnesses, as proved by the, the circus man’ Some hoaxes, innocently per- en's hoax, this was easily dis- long history of hoaxes, are no-| proved and the story died after a teriously unreliable.

e Indianapolis o TRE The Chicago Daily New

TOWN MEETING Town meeting. will. be. held Sun-. day night at All Souls Unitarian

|Chureh—1453 N. [Speakers will

include. Charles|1.PleasantTasting Circulation soared, and other Posner, director of Jewish Com-|2.Orange Flavor The motive was money in the brought a boom to the Scottish story so successful that it has newspapers picked up the story munity Relations Council; Robert |3. No Need te : {been repeatedly cited in other before the Sun admitted it was{Starms, North Side YMCA, Mil-| and Prof. Charles 4. Assures Accu Edgar Allen Poe's balloon hoax] Whether Bymg saucers fit into|C. Joey, Butler University. {

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