Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-19
COULD NOT
BEAR His weight
The Strange Affliction of Little
Wilbur Robinson.
He Stopped Growing Limbs Became Useless and
He was Unable to Wak-HlS Cure Brought
About in Singular Manner.
l,om DE os,errer. canlolls. NJ q

Hearing that a child near Iron station.
Lincoln County, bad l.en greatly benefited
by the usc Of Dr.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People, areprcsentati,c Of the Obsc-t,r
went thither 10 see mud ascertain the extent
Of the benefit the child had received.
Riding out on December o. ispj. 10 a little
country cottagc In the pine wools a mile
distant from Iron station. the reporter saw
. bfight.ihced. young woman. pure anglo
saxon ypc With light hair and blue eyes,
standing IN the doorway with two plump,
roy.cheekcd children half hiding behind
her drcVL Mentioning that he was looking
for a family Of Rohinsons, The woman
seemed nj hrsi littlc suspiciouz
% You IRE q stranger in my eye. % she sad.
" am trying 10 find q child named vii.
bur fnhiue1n who wa greatly bCnfhicd by
DR.. William Pink lills Tor Pole People y
The Young mother smiled aud a plcassd
look came into her eyes ~ she aid come In. %
and added. ~ guess that's the one, pointing
10 the younger OF the two little boys.
II wa an humble home, the family bcing
composed Of that sturdy farming class that
goes 10 make up one u the strongest and
trursi typos n North Carolina = good people.
The husband. Robert o. Robinson, runs the
farm Of dJ acres, but was oil to the mill at
the time.
The mother. Carrie l.. Robinson, told a
NNNlANNANNf HANFN " wv NMif " NNN ANAilf
hoy nom the ELECTS of Ia gsippc. Her aged,
white.haifcd mother. Mrs. Sarah A. Bandy
AIT near and emphasizes every word
OF the daughter. The little 10y, Wilbur,
who owed his recovery 10 Dr.. Williams
effective remcdy, played about the house
aud yard, and waA into every conceivable
kind Of mischief. II really seemed that he
must have taken IN many q DR.. Williams
Pink pills ~ great viz the energy with
vhich he prosecuted his prunks. Thrr,'
times his mother had h stop her conyora.
ton and rush out 10 rescue tho reporter ,
bicycle. which WA leaning against the house
outside. and with which Wilbur was be.
coming almost too familiar.
This u the story the mother told
"Wilhur was bora August =. 1893. lie
VA. q stout healthy boy tIll be- waa nearly
five months old. between Christmas and
New Years he took the grippc, A physician
AZ Iron Station attended him and he was
supposed ~ have recovered Hut the after
effects Of the malady fingered with digta-
trous results In March. ts1i his parents
noticed that he could not stand upon bis
feet. although beflrr his taking the grippe
h. could do 10 easily. lie could not hear
the weight Of his body on HE tcci; his leg
wcrc not growing any nor the muscle In
them developing lic Wa not treated, how
ever. till in Che hll about the lat Of Octo.
Der When Mr. Robinson took his cotton u
Iiucolninn, the county seat, he also carried
his baby along aud Lincolnion physician
prescribed for him, recommending lotion
Tor rubbing bis limbs. This helped thr
child only temporarily. Twice ahcrvari
this physician was cnnsulted.' lie told the
parents that the child might some day he
able To walk and again be- might not They
would Just have In let him grow along "
a. tho mother expressed 10, and 49, what
developed. Al Tits period the childf leg
appeared 70 be ahrunken. A. his mother
says they were "as soii as cotton" Herr
wa q boy fourteen months old. who not only
could not walk, but could not hear his weight
on hia feet.
In -Gme way-thry DO not know how
pamphlet found H. way 10 the Robinson
family. Old Mn. Bandy hshcd II out of q
bureau drawer. II had the picture u two
dogs peeping over a fence on one cover, and
on the Other a herd 81 cows drinking In d
cool stream near n bridge. Both on Tho
fence and on the bridge, on the respective