Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — Unusually Young Mothers. [ARTICLE]

Unusually Young Mothers.

A remarkable feature of a case in an Indiana court was the youthfulness of a mother present who had,at the age of only 13, given birth to two healthy twins. Youthful maturity seems to have been inherited, for this mother was herself born when her mother- was 13, she in turn having been born when her mother was 13. In court was the remarkable spectacle of a great-grand-mother, grandmother and mother of twins, the great-grandmothet now being 40 years old, the, grandmother 27, and the mother I'L—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. There is a man up in Vermont whose brains, according to one of the medical journals, have dried up, so that they rattle around like beans in a bladder every timp he shakes his head. -«-T“ ?I- y... t;■