BIRTH RACES

Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 2

BIRTH RACES

■Yesterday was the closing day* of the competition , under . the .will of Mr Charles Millar, of Toronto, who left £IOO,OOO to the woman who should, within 10 years of his-death in 192 G,. have produced the largest number of children. According to the latest reports, Mrs. Matthew Kenny was leading with a score of 12. The Prime Minister, of Canada has described the affair as a ' “ disgusting exhibition.” If it had happened im Germany or Italy it would have been chlled a notable effort of patriotism; so far is the world at the moment from seeing eye-to eye. ✓ Yet though not set down so boldly, in black and white, cases have occurred in the history'of races against time in the matter of births, tin the death of Princess Charlotte, the ;only daughter of George IV., in 1817, all the unmarried royal dukes were , promptly packed off to the Continent to find wives. ' Oueen Victoria was the second : of that rather urgently invited. generation, following her cousin, the ►dike of : Cambridge, by just two months, and beating another cousin, the Duke of Cumberland, by just three days. The last never forgave her. the precedence she had snatched.— ‘ Observer.’ 1 , ;