Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-07
SMALLEST BABY EVER HEARD OF.


Little From Recently Born in New Or
leans, Weighed Nine Dances and Is
Likely TO Maintain His Reoord-He
Comes of Great Family.
New Orleans has had the honor OF
giving birth TO wonderful infant.
Young Master From, OF that city, II he
lives and keeps his health for the DeIt
six weeks, before which time everybody
knows you dassent tote baby around
much, will be the smallest and lIghtest
weight wage Garner 10 the whole South
ern country, II not In the whole world.
For when Master From was born he was
a great deal smaller than the traditional
pound OF soap. To be exact, he weighed
nine ounces. All the dime museums 10
abe country have written TO secure the
unparalleled attraction, and II Is likely
that child and mother will select some
OF the most promising offers.
All babies are supposed TO weigh an
even ten pounds at birth. AS matter
of fact, comparatively few are as heavy
as that. Seven pounds Is nearer the
average, but fve-pound BABY Is
very small child, indeed, so IL Is easy
to see how very badly the record is
broken by young Master From. Yet IL
is not TO he thought that he is defective
or misshapen, or In any way lacking In
what should be the proper character
istics of a baby, save In the mere
matter of weight. he is red. which
is good color for baby, and
be has the same preposterous strength
in the grip OF his hands and toes that all
healthy babies have, a trait Inherited
from the times when their mammas
lived I'm the tops Of trees and had to
swing from branch to branch. Ia those
DAYS babies had 10 hang on 10 their
mothers back hair with their hands aud
with their toes, for the feet Of the newly
born are ike hands. The big toe can
oppose the second toe, aud the sole OF
the foot is like the palm Of the hand Tor
debility.
He has an appetite, too, one far In eK-
cess OF his size. His stomach must be
about the size OF one OF these little coin
purses, but il soon gets empty and then
he fights with his toy hands and wrink-
| les cd his old face and lets out q thin,
rubber CRY and applies 10 the maternal
fount. Mrs. From says be is mighty
smart boy and knows more than folks
think for, 10 spite Of the fact that the
J doctor says the only thing a baby feels
during the first four weeks Is hunger.
This appetite Of his has added 10 bis
weight a good deal since September 9,
but still be is probably the smallest
baby ever heard Of.
As be lies in his mothers lap be is
about as big as the bulk OF her two
hands. His body is 10 inches long and
a little more than three inches wide.
His foot is 2jz inches long. His head,
AT the largest girth, measures II Inches.
That would make 10 not quite four
inches in diameter, and a baby's head
should be as tbich as its body. The
great advantage OF this Kind Of baby Is
that it doesn't drag the life out Of the
mother crrryinz ii around and II IL just
as healthy as biz child.
Mrs. From has had experience with
babies. This Is her eighteenth, and she
| has borne twins and tripleta- Five OF
her children we're small and they have
All lived. Many OF the biz ones have
died. The oldest son, Frank, Is eighteen
years old and 10 about the size OF boy
of six. He is known as the smallest ath-
lete in the world. He travels with Har-
rts's circus, and mis- Business name y
/ Frank Harris He Is as active an}
nimble as can De and IS healthy a7<
statutes permit. He weighs lorL
pounds.