The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-13
SHE'S A REMARKABLE MOTHER
MRS, ORNSBr mas MAD FOTR-
TEENBABIES IN SEVEN YEARS.y'
Twins Twice. Then Tripirts and Now
Qusdrupicts Most Notable Casc OF
Maternity IN Record. but q Hard
One for The Trail Mother iius-
bands Gran and shes LEFT Alenc.

CuIcAOo. Oct i2.-Thc record OF mother
hood. In this country at least. II Mrs Joseph
X. Ormsby'- In her seven ycar- Of mar
ried life she has had fourteen chiid,vr,
IN average Of two a year and she l. only
-. Twice wins have been born To les.
onos her babies have been triplets and a
few days ago she gave birth 10 bankruptcies.
OF ber big family thrs' children were
living when tho four came Only ous
twin and two Of the trplcts survived.
the four new babie~ Az all healthy.
They weigh three pounds apie>e and cvery-
body thinks they will live, though that
isn't often h cas-. with quhirlplrts.
Mrs. Ornsby's N the most remarkable
ca-c 81 maternity ever known In this cuul-
try. 30 the Chicago physlolans ray All
the same il Is a hnrd cas-, for 10. mother,
for the children have only her u look 10
for support Her husband bCame in
sane Last june and Disappeared. Ils
dclusion Wa hat he had invuuusd a per-
Tstual-motion machine.
He In two years ounge than his wife.
She N not la~rge-athsr "A frail little woman,
with fair hair and blue eyes Orfnsby
was a plumber when they were mar1rd
In 1894 They ven to housekeeping in
a cottage in West Fory-t'ard stps't. and
there IN the first thrso years three babies
cana. Then u wa vim then still more
twins. and finally tnplets. Tn triplct.
won a gold cup at ia" Chicago baby
show. and the Ormsby children who sur
vived-the first twins aud thrs' other
children had disd b@caue a SORT ~ curo
exhibit ia the neighbprhoud. and the SUP
jcct of paragraphs in the newsfUI-r-
To help 10 feed the early coin"r-, tbs
wife persuaded her husband 20 tako OUT
the front % their cottage and build a small
grocery storr before II. She i"nd'd S'uro
herself besides doing all the huuS'woTs
and taking care II the children But with
tho increased revenue am the triplets.
Then the plumbers ideas began 90 run
TO inventing things. II was tho Old dsluSiun
of perpetual motion that took hold 81 him.
Day and night he worked on a machine
that was never o. stop Last summed
b. thought he had solved the problem.
lie had given up work 10 devote himself
u II and h. thought he saw surs'Ss II sight.
He finished the MACHINE and started u.
IL was a wonderful Cpntraui,un, and II
actually ran for EiNtv-twp Llur-, 80 tho
nsighhors say Then IL stopped. and tho
pluinher's brain -tppI-d working wiki Il.
In one q hi- fit- 81 frenzy he vanished.
Nobody has seen him slnc,
That was la~t June The deserted wife
went on tending store, doing her huu---
work and ke'ping her children tidy They
were the nicv=t children In the block, 80
everybody said. Then IN toe Last week
Of September came the four, thp-' boys
and ~ girl. all ~ uucs Now III" mother
u almost N despair about now g. ieed u
liNNAAN NNNANNN ~ .AAN TN' NNhA ~
II was a hard -truggl' then. AMI how 10
get along now she doesn't know. For
tuuately for 4I"r IA" u"w -p1Ir'r~ prlnt~d
storle- about u, cong -tpri"> WIN PICTURES
of all the surviving babies, and charitahlo
poop" have come forward - h,lp along
30 retnarkabo a mother.
They arr the dearest lttl" babies In this
world. : she said TO a reporter Nho went
10 interview her. AMI she glaucd over IN,
our little faces in "A row ia the cl' b"sids
her L hardly know What | viii Ito with
ali these children. but I'll de- NV p'-t
She didn't look a. n IN" could spare one
Of them. and there arr seven h"ft.
Ceorg" Dewey. Carter Harrison hnf
Helen Gould were th' uam-- given to tho
triplcts, Carter Harrison didu't e. over
II He died ia early infancy, but ueprgs
Dewey and Helen Gould are fine, healthy
youngsters. 81 l. David. n uf the wins
The latest babies haven't h'-'n named
vet formally. that T.. hut Tor one, thJ
lu-tiast ~youngs,cr IN IA" lp'. u - S"tt'si
What aro We going 10 call him -
pcated Mrs. Ormshy. when tn" reporter
asked that question. why, Ihsodors
R~puseveli.'