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BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE-DECEMBER 3.eifLIVING SKELETON FATHERTWOWINNINGWhat Says EugenicsTo a Father Weighing38 Pounds WhoseChildren Are PerfectAs Children Can Be?ADELAIDE ATHERTON,Three *nlt;l a Half Year Old PrtaeWlaaer, Deeaa*t ’IflHH a* If Hb* Had a Malt!m tor a iijRther, Ih*nYou will kindly imagine yourself at the bazar of the 6tth Regiment, N» Q. N, Y„ hejd recently at their Armory, In that portion of It %hira a number of competent men are^trying to decide which of a great many JU.year-old youngsters is the beet developed of thelot. * 1 'You have come up with the Judges just aa they stop before a splendid looking little girl and begin to appraise her with critical eyes. She in ruddy-skinned,with lauahing eyes, stout limbs brown hair, and »sas healthy, apparently, as a savage, individually and collectively, thefl’Donovan, who was a spectator, ofthe tale of the man in Ireland whom thecat carried downstairs three times until ?Wft wife woke up and shut the door to ! BBpiiho mm, out,* I ,.4 . • 1if you had been acquainted with thisman you would have recognized him as the Dude Skeleton/’ the Thinnest Man In the World/* and the rest of it—aged27^ weight 38 pounds. gmm coat, which was smalt, hung on him like a sack, and his trousers, which \ were narrow enough, goodness knows, showed not even the suggest ion of a legInside them. \“Hello/’ says^Mrs O’Donovan to herself, T wonder what's ole shlvver-the-wlnd doin’ here? Not goin1 to enter theJudge* heave a windy *igh of relief (contest, I hope Yerra then, Id like tot«e see a child o' hi*. 'Twould be a eurlos-Keeping in mind the artfulness of mothers of prospective prize-winning babies, you must understand that bythis time the unfortunate Judge* are{uat a little on the hither aide of im-wrtltty.Upon *them have been bent the killing glances or arch smile* of the mothers as they pointed out the merits of their respective offspring And all the more discomforting to the poor judges was the fact that the whole outrageous ocular bombardment took place In the presence of the judge'* own wives.ity. I'm thlnkfn'. Maybe he ha* It in hi* vest pocket. I wonder doe* them pants o’ hi* stand he themselves, or Isthere really a leg In them? But I shouldn't be thlnkTn* that way of him, poor man* But Lo*d! h« does remind me of a plcksd chlcktn.Weighed Two Pounds at BirthAnd at this moment the living skete-went up to his wife, gave her a re*t n nHer Second PrizeThus their stgh of relief when they stepped In front of little Adelaide Atherton There was nothing more to besaid or done. Here was the Velf-svt*sounding kiss, and taking his daughter Adelaide Atherton, tfrtse winner, by one hand, and hi* son Harold by the other,marched calmly away!for the spectators, and Mrs ,0 Donovan especially, thev could onlydent prise winner.She was examined, to be sure, but theAnd there you have it, Artie Atherton, the thin rrfan aforementioned, Is the father of two prize-winning babiesprize went to her just the name Kmnll *Ie Kv«* out his weight h* 38 pounds;, wonder. She was sound and gentle, h* measures Inches around the bland a* nearly perfect as a child of her .18 Inches around the waist; 6%age could be. inches around the thigh, wears a num-Npt only that, but she’had already *®r 3 hoe and a number 6 glove, earned a reputation. When six months) At birth he weighed two pounds lie old *he had taken 11r*t prize aa the'had to be carried about on a pillow best baby of her age In Chicago. ! until he was 8, was wheeled In an In-Beside her was her brother Harold, j valid chair until he was 10, and walked 2Mi years old. In Chicago he, too, had;on crutches until he was 17. Now hetaken first prize as the best baby at . gets around with the help of the circus.6 months and again at 18 months. He'and eats three square meals a day.was another little beauty.And with them was their mother, a young woman In her 30's, well developed, strong and healthy looking, and weighing about 122 pounds. The sortof mother, In fact, you would expectkwould have such children.Never Sick a DayHis daughter Adelaide weighed nine pounds at birth, and Harold weighed 12 That Is all he can tell you about them. They are perfectly normal, healthy chll-MThere! exclaimed a woman onlooker dren, were well taken care of, and Into her friend. That’s the result ofhaving eugenic oarents. Look at her now. would you5? And her husband— ah, I’d like to see him He’s as big as a house and an strong as an ox. I'll bet—a policeman, probably.'liefleft, ingnlyM$it Bffl nto“Thinnest Man In the World”? It war at tilts moment that some one, . ... * . * .*i*a* nnnhf.fl thf-nuffh the rlnfta and ri*ver Wf‘ *4ck for a day. Thinelse punned Oifow m* cir#e aapij, contrary to expectation, but Athertonspite of the fact that their father in a skeleton, they are very much alive.Now what has eugenic* to way for ail this? Can it he explained? Atherton save it can*!, and we don’t know anything about R. ^ ^We will say thin, however, on Artie Atherton’s authority: Although he has been exceedingly frail all his life, he hascocked an ear to hear what the judgeswere saying. He was a little, dry wispfeet Inof a man, not more than flpf bight, and built like the blade of a' 'lJ:He was so thin that he reminded Mrsjaya tt la a fact.Site frail condition and his light weight are caused not ho much by lack of muscle as by extremely tiny bones. He has no traoe of muscular atrophy or ossification. So there you are
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Sun, Dec 03, 1916
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