FOUR “SUCH PETS”

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 5

FOUR “SUCH PETS”

Quadruplets’ Proud Mother In sharp contrast with Mrs. Dionne’s plaint that she is the world’s unhappiest woman, Mrs. IVm. Mahaney, 148 Mecklenburg Street, Saint John, N. 8., Canada, mother of the thlrteen-year old quadruplets shown with her in a photograph which appears on page 9, has explained her philosophy of life. “Parents dread twins? WJv- 1 bless the Christmas Day my double twins were born, four darlings, the one day,” she told a recent interviewer. "Oh, it has been hard finding for them at times, what with seven others besides, one since, and their father not always getting work. But wouldn’t you thank the Good Lord for granting you the motherhood of such pets! They are smart at school and well-behaved.” The four Christmas-born quadruplets are: Edith May, Edna Louise, Lydia Christine and John Douglas. Last Christmas their father, a carpenter, was long unemployed: and people learned it just in time to help Santa Claus come. The four Mahaneys exchanged remembrances with the five Dionnes, also Canadians, and the latter’s guardians helped the Mahaneys out. The children take a keen interest in Bruce, Vera, .Mary and Kathleen Johnson, quadruplet children of Mr. and Mrs. G. Johnson, of Caversham, Dunedin.