MOTHER BORN IN MARLBOROUGH.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 6

MOTHER BORN IN MARLBOROUGH.

DESCENDANT OF SIR FRANCIS

DRAKE

A YOUNG SUPERMAN,

The Evening Herald, published at Los Angeles, features with photographs the story of Windsor Sedlacek, a 21J--moiiths-old prize baby, who is described as a descendant on his mother's side of Sir Francis Drake. The story is of local interest (says the Dannevirko News), because the mother of the baby is tho youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs William Thompson, of Dagmar Street, Dannevirke. Mrs Sedlacek was well known in Dannevirke as Miss Ethel Thompson. She was born in Kaituna' Valley, near Blenheim, but arrived as a _ child with her parents in Dannevirke. She was Educated at the North School, and subsequently was a particularly bright pupil at the Dannevirke High School. She determined to enter the teaching profession, and after successfully fulfilling an engagement at Hamilton she went to California, where she distinguished herself as a teacher, and subsequently married an American citizen, Mi* K. El. Sedlacek. The Evening Herald, m telling the story of this young superman, born to this Dannevirke girl, says:— Los Angeles claims the distinction of having the youngest super-man in existence as a citizen—Windsor Sedlacek, 2U months old, who has tho mental and physical development of a child of four years. A descendant on his mother's side of Sir Francis Drake, the 16th century navigator and admiral, Windsor is already swimming and devouring magazines, while his vocabulary amazes even the most erudite. And once lie tried a few puffs at a cigar! In fact, this son of Mr and Mrs K. E. Sedlacek, of 1808 South Arapahoe Street, refuses to associatp longer with young men and subdebutantes of his own age, preferring the intellectual delights of ' 'grown-up discussions. INVADES OVEN.

That he is also quite a was;, was proved by the fact that he facetiously tried to climb into the oven of the kitchen stove while he was granting his first "interview" to-day. According to his attractive young mother, a New Zealander, this superman "eats all day," and shows a decided proclivity for pla.vmg with matches and breaking window' panes with, his one pal, an Indian doll fat with sawdust. Windsor was pronounced 9<i per cent, perfect at the last baby show in Los Angeles, and boasts of a chest measurement of 22 inches. His head is 21 inches at the forehead, while he is 38 inches in height. CHEESE AND SNAPS. His diet consists mainly of "cheese and ginger snaps." while he sleeps from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. nightly, with another nap from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Apparently the "wild western life the young man is living agrees with him, for he weighs 30 pounds. "Windsor is po clever that his father and myself have to spell our remarks to one another to keen him from understanding." laughed his mother. "I am thankful that, at least he is still weak in that accomplishmeht^ si)A Toys "He cares nothing for toys, but prefers to watch me all day, and then entertain his father by imitating me in the evenings. We have never tried to force his mind in any way, so that his development has been quite natural. "Next year I shall begin instructing him. ' I used to teach myself in New Zealand. Windsor has quite a mixture of national strains—his father being a Bohemian, while T also have some French blood as well as English. "Windsor shocked the lady rext door extremely yesterday by telling her baby daughter that fhe ' looked just like a statue.' He has r. remarkable memory for words and phrases, and gives us many laughs. A photograph of Mrs Sedlacek and her child is being exhibited in a shoo window in Bannevirke, where it is attracting attention.