FAMILY OF SIXTY-SIX

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 278, 25 May 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

FAMILY OF SIXTY-SIX

SMALL HOUSEHOLDS CONSIDEI? El) HAD EORM.

Tlo Chinese arc proud of large families and a large family living to■retber under one root is looked upon as proof of the good temper and correct rourso of life of its members and as a sure path to prosperity . A large family which ''s able, to live togeLher without dividing up tho property always receives much credit and is highly, respected. It is oim of th > highest distinctions in i China to have \Vu Fu Tung I ang, or nve generations, uuder one root, Although such a distinction is attained by very few. . . According to a recent censjis the family of M-ng Vu Sluh, a widow of the vilki.ro of Mnntao, in the territory ot Wei-Ttai-woi has the distinction of bein,, the largest in tho land. Her family consists of sixty-six members, and. with c i-vonl tboiv are .sixiv-seven one sei i.Uit. i. i. ••■ mouths to be fad daily. Menc Vu Shih is sixty-six years old, Pl ,i has nine sons and numerous grandvhildren and great-grandchildren, nil hving und-arhcr roof. She has not. attained tha ambition of -I the |„ad of Wu Fu Tung 1 ang, but Ui. hro of her family has already given her ,1,, honour and the plea.snre. of henß tl.o largest in Ciina. eevn if she has not live •"Mieratiens under one roof. " There are imiiiv households With mnr.« than ferry members, and almost afl old ~.ul dist'inmiished families of Clina i,. ivo ~, j,....,| tw.-nlv memb is. rainilir..o| ,„e Hsize. three or four, are .-onB :,i. v.. 1 nth".- bad form even il limy are ,/j, s'„«i oi| n- bi'h P" mi. Si-r o 'r family is as valuable m China as size ei' m MI-TAKEN. A„ old eentleimiTof eghty. bavins I ,!.„„ to the altar a young dam-el ol ~'...1,..-,.,, the .-Torgvni.in said to him : «'fl,.. font is at the other end. Oh. |„w your pardon." he continued tlnnLhfc vou bad brought this dnld w 1.,, cliristened."