Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-05
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Ing TOT the next twenty years as he
has been for the past twenty-seven
IN onths, there won't be street in the
country wide enough for his passage.
He couldn't enter railway train.
couldn't pass under bridge without
crawling and would strain the axles of
Of the biggest auto truck in the coun-
try. He now weighs 10. .pQuads and Is
just TWO months over 8 years old. II
anybody knows Of bigger baby than
| that Georgia invites him to enter ex
hibit B. But James Adoiph is unique
Mr.. and Mrs. James Aleck Cody, who
live on the mountainsde not far from
Mount Airy, don't know VIVA, 10 think
of the enormous size of their offspring
He wasn't their first baby and his pre-
decessors were not unusually large, nor
are the parents above the average
Young James Adolph was larger than
the average when he entered this world,
but not of appalling size by any means.
But he began growing after his very
first meal and hasn't done anything
but eat and grow ever since. He is the
wonder Of every resident OF the noun
tains. and college professors who spend
their summers in the hotels near by
have examined him with microscopes
with instruments and poked him in the
ribs, and he puzzles them az we'll For
he is as strong as he is big, and as
healthy as he is fat He never had a
days illness and, unlike most infant
phenomena, is perfectly normal in ev-
erything but his physical proportions
You who have seen fat freaks" in
the museums might think this young
f0 oil ~ gg
must be waited upon as the baby his
years would make him. But II you were
passing his home you'd be apt to see
him pulling his elder brother around
the yard in q homemade cart with
wheels sawed out of round log, as
heavy and hard pulling a plaything as
ever country boy tackled. for he is
thirty nine inches tall and strong as he
is big.
He is three times as big as his 4
year old brother. In fact. he weighs
within a few pounds Of his mothers
| weight. When she wants to caress
James Adolph. Mrs. Cody doesn't
| snatch him up in her arms-not by
several pounds. He climbs up in the
biggest chair in the place and she cud-
! dies down besides him and hugs as far
father had to walk him" at nights,
like some fathers do-well. he'd have
| to use derrick.
James Adolph wasn't brought up on a
bottle-not after the first few weeks.
Here is his daily menu now:
Breakfast-Four large biscuits, with
butter or gravy. He insists on molasses
| with these and usually gets it. Two
glasses of buttermilk are his regular
portion and sometimes he drinks two
cups OF coffee. They say coffee stunts
| q child, but it hasn't made any notice.
able impression on this voungster.
Dinner-A big plate Of turnip green's
or cabbage. any other vegetables. con-
| venient, boiled bacon. corn bread. plen-
ty OF biscuit and a whole pie. Two
glasses Of buttermilk again
Supper-The same as breakfast: bis
cults, butter and molasses.
In addition to his three meals q day
young James Adolph gets hungry be-
\ tween meals and eats what he can ind.
He averages three full meals and a
couple Of luncheons in . day and never
seems quite satisfied. He consumes as
much rs any grown person on the place
and has sampled every kind OF food
served on the Cody menu.
| When James Adolph was 8 months
old he showed q remarkable tendency
10 become giant and the family ply
stefan arranged a diet for him to reduce
his flesh and curb his tendency to out
grow his baby clothes faster than his
mother could make them. They tried
everything they could think OF, but
Adolph grew just the same. and finally
his parents cut out the diet and let
nature takes its course. They have the
satisfaction of knowing that he 10 the
'healthiest youngster in Habershasn