Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-08
MOTHER, WEEPS AS
TRIPLETS LEAVE
AT FATHERS ORDER
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manded to know what you people
don't you go TO the store and see
papa?"
Would See "Trip1ets"
eff they don't bring the 'triplets'|
back to us, they've got to let me &c
CT their little clothes, and she says
said Elmour. It'll make mama take
me with her, because I know she'll
want to go to see 'em."
Elmour was asked if he'd be will
ing to leave his mother and ia
Their"
"You betcha I wouldn't stand for
IT., he asserted with :. emphasis.
They're. too good to me-"
sage from Mrs. South. Mama says
she cannot talk to any one else until
she feels better, and she doesn't want
us to talk unless you bring a note
from papa. She promised him that
when he left this morning."
lated, with tears streaming down her
face, the departure of the "triplets."
She said her mother" kept "heaps
of their little colthes,. and she says
she never will part with them as long
as she lives. They were the cutest
things you ever saw-those triplets,"
she said.
To Go To Church
Sunday morning probably will
find the South family in atendance|
on Sunday school and church as
usual. Mrs. South said Saturday
that she made it point never to-
allow the children to miss Sunday
Paurs Methodist church.
Mrs. South on Friday declared the
"triplets" were procured by her due
to an offer by the cradle roll de-
partment of her church to educate
as missionaries the first triplets
That's why I got the three babies
wanted to see them educated as
religious workers and given a
chance" she said.
Mrs. Floyd Field, of East Lake,
in charge of the cradle roll depart
not imagine how Mrs. South con-
ceived the idea that such an offer
was made. She had no recollection
of such an offer, she declared.
Mrs. South was the only mother
In the church who had five babies
our cradle roll, and we were very
proud of her, and her twins and trip
let's" said Mrs. Field.
But we have never made an offer
to educate the first triplets born to
a member of our congregation, nor
-" We We Lldoe any klhd OIL >oleT, Ior
that matter. Mrs. South must have
dreamed that. That's the only way
that l can figure it out" she con-
tihued.
Big Cradle Roll
Mrs. Field said that she had been
superintendent of the cradle roll of
st. Pauls for the past 1-2 years,
and that she was mighty proud Of it,
as, she said, it was the largest in the
state, having an enrolment of 654
babies. all under the age of IL
years.
1--WE had enrolled the South trip
let's Mrs. Field added; Elm fact, we
were supposed to have been born,
but Mrs. South had never sent us
their names. We have taken them
off the roll now, and we are sorry
We must do so, because they were the
only triplets we had on our roll, and
besides it cuts our total down from
657 to 654 babies
1--WE have enrolled all of Mrs.
South's children" Mrs. Field said,
keeping them on the cradle roll I'M
til they reach the age limit OF
3 IL years. All babies are promoted
at that age. Mrs. South was the only
mother in the Sunday school who had
five babies on the roll. I wish that
the 'triDlets' and all the other chill |
1ren might have really been hers. |
because we We're so proud of her for
having five babies on our roll"
When asked if the Sunday school, |
Or the cradle roll department in
Field said that it was impossible for
them to do anything now, as the |
program for the entire year had been |
mapped out, and that neither the de- |
Dartnlent nor the Sunday school |
could do anything for them at this |
time.
Confession a Surprise
The amazing confession by Mrs !
South that she had fooled her hus |
oand and the public for fourteen |
years was disclosed in an exclusive |
story in Fridays Journal which |
stirred Atlanta and aroused great /
interest throughout the United |
Sta ties.
Newspapers in all the large cities |
If the country wired their Atlanta |
for complete details |
and photographs of the family"
md the several news services of the |
sent stories of the unusual |
affair into every newspaper office
n the nation.
It was one of the most intensely |
stories of mother love the |
world hassever known, and probably |
las no parallel in fiction.
No birth certificates for the "trip
arrived at the South home on Jan
larry ] was ever filed with the city |
BOARD of health. Attention was drawn |
o this fact at the city hall several |
lays ago. and an insnector visited |
he South home. Mrs. South referred |
him to q doctor. but the doctor could |
lot be found. Several neiehbors Of |
Mrs. South told the inspector that |
here was "somethinr funny" abon+ !
he birth of the triplets. City Off |
,ials in the health department dis |
'ussed the case FRIDAY. and acting |
on their "tip." Journal reporters |
made an investigation which dis
closed that Mrs. South procured !
he three babies. which were horn |
% different mothers. from MrT |
Mitchells maternity home at % |
street.
The reporters hurried TO the South |
cottage, and asked her nointblank,
Are these your children"
Not Her Children
She answered that the "triplets,"
nor either of the other six children
in her home, were born to her, but |
were all obtained at maternity hos
pitfalls.
Mrs. South said she secretly |