Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1903 — Says Babies Are Out of Date. [ARTICLE]

Says Babies Are Out of Date.

“Women of onr finer homes don’t want babies nowadays,” declared Bishop Franois, of the Episcopal diocese of Indiana recently while commenting on the declaration of the living ohuroh Annual that there is an alarming shortage of babies in the chnrch. ‘•We have a constant increasing number of adult baptisms but the baptism of infants is deoeeasing. This is not because the people do jjot have their babies baptized bnt because there are few babies. “Not only is there a shortage of babies in our ohuroh but all over the land-iu the wealthiest homes,” It appears of France. “ a—g,JOE— - Cat prices on nearly everything for holiday clearance askvi’ Shore. Sfcfl a "* 'EL;':: « ‘