The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-20
BY HONOR TANNING.


CHICAGO, Sept. 2O.-This Is
to introduce you to the CHAM
PION GIANT BABY OF AMER
ICA!
Take off your hat to Sammy
Pueblo, new heavyweight cham
pion in the cradle blass, who,
weighing i'm mt 10 pounds, has
run away with the American rec
ord for size i'm babies!
Sammy doesn't know thing
about it, but the eyes of all the
medical world are on him to-day,
and some of the physicians and
some of the eugenic faddlsts hail
him as the long heralded sIper-
baby who is to father the super
man, and some of them say he Is
the forerunner of a race of Amer
lean giants!
anyway, the Champion is
here, clothed chiefly in fame and
glory, for when he arrived there
wasn't stitch of clothing in his
baby basket that would fit him!
Mamma Pueblo had expected a
good, big bambino," to bo sure,
but she had prepared no clothes
for baby giant; that's why Sam
my is receiving visitors-and he
has hundreds of them daily-and
posing for pictures swathed in
strips of flannel just as he's pic
tured here, and that's why his
christening has been postponed
until there's time and money TO
make new clothes for the cradle
champion.
The American Text Book
of Obstetrics has been con-
suited to see If Champion
Pueblo is really entitled to
rank as the biggest baby in
America. Tho text book"
says:
"New born babies weigh
seven pounds, though boys
usually weigh half pound
more than girls. Babies of
IL pounds HAVE been seen."
But there's not n word
about a 19-pound baby. So
Sammy's title is clear.
His head, which is twice
too big for the ordinary
baby-bOnnet, in is inches
around; his hands are four
times the size of the aver
age newborn babe; his
shoulders are sturdy and
broad, his waist is 20 inches
his mothers is only 80
his spine is so strong that
now, when five days old, he
can sit up 1 nhis crib with
back unsupported.
The heavyweight isn't paying
much attention to diet Just now.
Mothers milk whenever he
cries." is Mamma Pucillo's notion
of feeding a champion baby.
But when he's two weeks
old she'll give him matted
milk, Just two ounces four
times day and four times at
night.
"I'll just let the bambino grow,
same as my baby Danny grew, "
says mother of the giant baby"
That's the safest way. I'll keet
him clean; I'll kept him warm
I'll feed him when he's hungry
I'll let him sleep when he wants;
I'll keep him quiet--noise isn't
good for baby--and I'll just lei
him grow.
"If God wants him to be a
great man, my baby will be
a great man. i don't know
why i have SO wonderful
baby, but I'll do the best. 1
can to keep him safe and well
until he's a great man. What
more can any mother dO?'
And, strange as 1t may seem
the giant-baby's mother is "just q
bit of a woman" as they say on
Chicago's west side. She's five
feet two inches tall. and weighs nc
more than 100 pounds and she's
just 20.
Ellis mother must be
healthy woman Of large ply
sique," said DIR. John Dill
Robertson, head of Chicago's
health department, when l
told him about the 1D-pound
baby. II should say she eats
| well and lives well-eats
plenty Of sirloin steak, NO
| doubt"
but the giant-baby's mother
punctured this theory. Little Mrs
Pueblo smiled pensively wher
asked about the sirloin steaks.
Steak costs so cents; my mai
he makes q dollar some days, ant