BABIES PROMINENT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 6

BABIES PROMINENT.

Well in the News in Canada.

Toronto, January 5. Babies—just babies—have maintained prominence in Canadian news during, the past year. The-Dionne quintuplets continued to hold first place as they advanced toward their third birthday next May, and all wintei- tourists, made their way to the Dafoe Hospital, at Callander, where the babies could be keen in their playhouse. Christmas Was strictly a family celebration, with- the quintuplets joined by their parents, their brothers and sisters. The Millar “stork Derby” will make news for months, and ft is now for the Toronto courts to decide who shall receive something more than £100,009 under the last testament of the Toronto lawyer who left it to the Toronto woman who should be mother of the most children in a given 10-year period. The will has been Tuled valid, but the contesting parents still have to prove their claims.

In the closing months of the year triplets came to at least four Canadian families. Three boys were born to a Toronto woman through a Caesarian operation and all survived. A Montreal baby, one of twins?—t,he other died—weighed less •than, lib at birth, and at 18 weeks v'as up to 81b and gaining steadily. At Brampton, near Toronto, a single baby weighed only 290 z, but .survived.

And at St. John, N. 8., Canada’s only quadruplets—Lydia, Edith, Edma and John Mahaney—celebrated their thirteenth birthday at Christmas.