AMAZING SETS OF BABIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 120, 22 April 1936, Page 12

AMAZING SETS OF BABIES.

An interesting photographic reproduction seen in the latest illustrated paper front England w"s a four-eeater perambulator. In it lay the Miles quadruplets. Two babies lay at each end and Mrs Miles, their proud mother, was wheeling the perambulator. The quadruplets created a great deal of interest, the picture showing numbers of people round the perammula.tor. A short paragraph stated that many women surrounded the mother and her babies and movie camera men took their pictures. The crowds became too much for Mrs Miles, who had to retire to the dnetnr'is house where the babies are living, and finish the babies’ outing in the quiet of the garden and grounds. News is also given of another amazing set of ly\bi.es who recently had their first outing. There were the five children of three sisters —all horn within a. few days of each. They were christened at the same ceremony. -Tire mothers of the babies are the three daughters of a woman who was herself a twin. Two of the three daughters have had twins, while the third has had a baby girl. Twin sons were horn to one sister and a hoy and girl to the other. During the christening eeremonv all five children cried.