Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-05
HUSBAND IGNORANT,
THOUGHT CHILDREN
WERE HIS, SHE SAYS
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'triplets" might be bogus.
1t was noted at the city health Of
flee at the city hall, where all births
and deaths are reported by doctors,
that no certificate If the of the "trip
let's birth had been turned in. An
inspector was sent to the Weyman
avenue home. and to him Mrs. South
gave the name of a doctor No such
doctor could be fond. The inspector
was puzzled. He reported his find
ings to the city health office. An at
tache of the office, having his suspi-
c1ons and his own theory about the
case, happened to mention it FRIDAY
morning to reporter for The Jour
nal.
Say" he ended, why don't you
Try that maternity home at 22. Wind
sor street? I'm willing to bet the
'triplets' came from there"
ana his bunch proved correct if
the statement of Mrs Mitchell and
MRS. Soath's own confession are to
be believed. ~
GOT cHI1DREN IN
MATERNITY HOME
Inc South home is a modest little
outage IN a neighborhood that teens
Win uttIe folks, the children of par
ehlS IN moderate circumstances, hard
WORKING people who are wrapped IN
Ghelr homes and their families. Mrs.
South, when asked point blank by a
Journal reporter about the circum-
stances surrounding the arrival of
the 'tr1plets," readily admitted that
they are not her own flesh and blood
offspring, but that she took them
from the maternity home operated by
Mrs: Mitchell on Windsor street.
Yes, that is true said Mrs.
South. Il adopted them because L
love children and all mine are grown
up and married. L have always want
ed to do just as much good in the
world as it is possible for me to do
before 1 die. Those poor little tots
in the maternity homes, the victims
of unfortunate circumstances, Just
appealed to me more than 1 can tell
you.
81 want to make them into good
men and women, who will do some
better"
well. how about the twins that
you got from Mrs. Mitchell in Oc-
tober, 1882" she avs asked.
Yes, I got them, too, and another
pair of twins two years before that,
married and after they grew up I
couldn't get alon" somehow without
children in the house, so I began
taking these little foundlings from
maternity homes and hospitals. We
have nine now, some of them as old
as thirteen. and the others as young
as two months. the triplets, I mean.
LOVES THEM AS
SNE WOULD OWN
My father was a Methodist min
lister He is dead now and so is my
mother They were careful to bring
me up to fear God and have desire
to help the world. | don't care any
thing about going out to the theater,
or to anything else much. All want
to do is to make a good home and
bring up children. 7 have always
felt that the old saying, Charity be-
gins at home, is the real cure for
the evil that is in the world. So
have tried to do my share to help
those around me and those who have
been in unfortunate circumstances.
Every one of the children 1 have
taken is given the best care. owe
them just as much as though they
were my own flesh and blood. No
mother could do any more for them
than L have according to our ability.
l want the little ones to grow up to
be good, useful, Cody men and wom-
en-, with the best education and the
best opportunities in our power to
give them.
mo, my husband doesn't know but
what they ar call our own children
I don't think he would object, but
[ don't know about it. so l have
kept it a secret
How did you manage to keep it
from your husband that the chill
dren were not actually born to you?"
was asked
I'm not going to tell about that"
she replied, but L managed to do it
somehow. 1t was hard work some
times, but 1 got by with it"
CHURCH OFFER
INFLUENCED HER
Il belong to ST. Paul's Methodist.
church and some of the mothers in
the congregation decided to form a
Bible class some time ago. Then We
planned a Cradle Roll for the babies.
so that they could be brought up in
a religious atmosphere. We decided
that the first set of triplets born in
the church should be educated as
missionaries to the people of .coun1-
tries where God is not Worshlpped:
1t was then that [ got the idea OF
taking three little tots from the ma
ternitv home and letting them be
known as triplets and nv own chill
dren.
80 1 did it. I got the, children
from Mrs Mitchell. telling her apou, ;.
why l wanted them and we lookeu
up the circumstances to pc sure tha'
the children were of good .paren+"
Wit hno bad blood to be inherlteq.
at is too bad that it can't be KEEP
q secret right on. [ don't want th1
Children to know that they are not
NV own. flesh and blood. IheY love
me- lust as though I were their own
mother They don't know any nllatI
nnce and 1 couldn't love them any
more than 7 do. Cant we ke oe, II
from being known to the pupllc: -
Mrs. South was assured tIlat ~
would be impossible to aVold Gel az
tain amount of public atIention o ~.
accoun+ of the unusual clrcumSldnoe
TIrR11 HG ggH QUOTED
~ the room where Mrs. South s ao
. che talked of the situation WeIe
- tsr al' LITTLE beds. On one of them
S Citl the three little "triplets tha'
9TTe south got from the Mitchell ma
tarnity nome. After a while one OF
The tots woke up and began to W1lht-
mar She had lost her nursing DOT
lie Mrs. South went over ana re-
stored the food supply ana tne
yo1lngster at once relapsed into SUM
her. The other two babies slept
peacefully. e+ie
one of the other children, Lotus
aged 5, played about the room IN a
little suit of r0fnpers. neatly made
and spotlessly clean. He is bright
little chap. with chubby face and
f1axen hair His laughing blue eyes
watched Mrs. South wonderingly as
she talked at length with The Jour
nal representative. He hung aoou'
her knees and Cane over to shake
hands with the strange gentleman
who had called at the house.
offs 2 funny thing" said Mrs