BABY’S TRAVEL RECORD

Evening Star, Issue 20784, 5 May 1931, Page 12

BABY’S TRAVEL RECORD

TEN THOUSAND MILES FIRST YEAR OF LIFE. The world’s bonniest baby girl is also the world’s greatest traveller lor one her age. She is blue-eyed, lair-haired, dimple-cheeked, not yet a year old, has covered 10,000 miles by sea, rail, and road, and has excited_ the envy of the women in four countries. Mary Ratrieia M’Gratb, who has thus achieved fame on the very threshold of her life, is the only child of a workingclass couple residing in Roplar street, Everton, says a Liverpool correspondent. She is the perfect child. “She,s never had a day’s illness.” states Mrs M’Grath proudly. “ and is never fractious or peevish.’* In her short life the baby has already visited French and Irish ports, twice crossed the Atlantic because her parents were unable to secure work, and travelled ‘.1,000 miles by motor to and from the interior of Ontaria. Her name as a beauty was established during the sojourn of less than four months in Canada. Twenty days after arrival at an Ontario farm eighteen miles from the nearest shopping centre, Alary was taken to the irishmen’s picnic at Port Stanley, and won easily a silver cap presented for the best baby girl at her age. A month later she repeated her success at a Labour Day demonstration at London, Ontario, in a competition for two-year-old children and under, open to the world. Economic conditions forced the family to return to England, and after calls at Le Havre and London Mary is now back in her native city, playing havoc with the affections of all those who make her acquaintance.