MOTHER OF TWENTY.
HAPPY LONDON FAMILY. "1 have had 20 children, and it hasn't taken much effect on me, has it ?" said Mrs. J. Alexander, of Clerkenwell, during the hearing of a case in a .London Court recently. She is a cheerful and complacent woman of 40, the wife of a foreman at. Sheffield. They were married 23 years ago, when Mr. Alexander was a casual labourer earning sixpence an hour. "We're the happiest family in London." said Mrs. Alexander. "Times were pretty hard when the children were all tinv.'aud my man's often had to lay down his "pipe—and tobacco was his only luxury." Mr. Alexander is himself the eldest of a family of 22. lit* was brought up in a village "near Yarmouth, and is rather contemptuous of the, comfort in which people live to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19031, 30 May 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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