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TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Oct. 19, 1944 PARENTS OF 20 BETTER MEAGER Elks' Visitor 1 1 , i - PLACE IN LIFE When winter's just around the bend, it's comforting to know Your youngster will be ready for the cold and sleet and snow. And when you have him bundled up from toes up to his cap, How glad you'll be you shopped for him before the first cold snap ! Thrifty Couple Know Whal K to Do With 20 Children In 26 Years of Married Life 4 (Though some complain about the cost of rearing a single child, or maybe two, Earl and Ethel Esterly of Allentown, Pa.t are the parents of 20, and they've managed to Improve their once meager station In life. Their epic of maternity follows:) B Betty J. Helnman United Press Correspondent Allentown, Pa., Oct. 19 U.R) Earl and Ethel Esterly who have for nil practical purposes as many children as the old woman who lived In a shoe, know what to do with them. The thrifty Pennsylvania Dutch couple are going to move Into a 10-room house that has five bedrooms and In that ver itable mansion continue rearing the 18 surviving children of 20 born to them In their 26 years of married life. The newest two-day old Timothy never will know what a problem it Is to fit 20 persons into a six-room house with seven beds, with no elec tricity, no plumbing, and "none of the conveniences." The Estcrlys had their 20 children and saved money while doing it. They sold their 900 chickens and the money plus their savings bought the new bouse. Gets Electric Washer Mrs. Esterly, 43, can hardly wait to leave the hospital to try out an electric washer. Hereto fore she has washed the clothes of 20 by hand. And she has been doing her cooking over a coal stove and her mountains of - mending by the light of a ker osene lamp. Vet she can't see where hav ing 20 children is any more trouble than having two. Nor can her husband, who Is 44. Provided, of course, that you got through the lean years when the family Income was $60 a month and you come of largo families which help out. And provided you grow your own loon, ana the wife cans huge stores of vegetables and fruits every full and makes all the children's clothes. Earns $30 a week But the squeeze Isn't so tight now. Esterly, a truck driver, earn $30 a week. Five work ing children contribute $10 a week each. "Things are pretty easy now," Mrs. Esterly said. "I've always admired a big, family. And it looks as If I ad mired myself right Into one," she said. "But this time I don't think there will be any more." Esterly agreed that there Is a limit. But If the government would give a bonus for babies, no n line io nave 20 more. Esterly was one of 14 chll flren and figured out a long time ogo that "the only way to gei along with so many children is Just to treot them all equal." "When I give one a dime," he said, "they all get a dime, and when one goes to a movie, they II go." For discipline, Esterly used the stand - in - the corncr-untll-they-gct-ovcr-lt method, lie sel dom spnnks. If it's a worth while argument, the children fight it out among themselves. Works Long Hours Esterly "keeps busy" at home evenings and Sundays but Mrs. Esterly Is on the go from five a. m. until tho last Esterly has blown out his kerosene lamp and gone off to climb Into one of the seven beds with one or two other Estcrlys. She serves breakfast first to the working Estcrlys. Then the eight school children get theirs and by that time "it's almost lunch time." Between menls, she has end less bnkiiig. The big meal Is at night with all the Estcrlys gathered around one table. There Isn't room for all to sit and the little ones stand wedged in between the older children. Two loaves of bread disappear at every meal. The Esterly aro proud that they've always found time and Wmks even Sound Better I fn TlaiNKS mlMd with Canada Dry Water aparkla out loud. "Pin-Point Cak. ONATtoN" iniuroa livelinaia and sip ... to th lait tip. to'-? CANAD I HTHttJ) ( 1- Dr. Goorge E. Dix, of Manh- field. deputy grand exalted rulor for Oregon south, will pay an official visit to Modford lodge tonight. He was elected exalted rulor of Marihfiold lodge in 1910 and has beon active in the., fraternity., throughout., his membership. Besides carrying on his professional duties. Dr. Dix owns one of the foromost dairy herds and best equipped ranches in Coos county. money for the pleasant things like big Christmas trees and birthday parties and anniver saries. I can't wait to get home," Mrs. Esterly said. "I miss my man and ho misses me." Red Troops Reach Finn Nickel Mines Stockholm, Oct. 19 (U.R) Re ports from Helsinki said today that Russian troops had reached the Pctsamo nickel mines and were engaging the Germans In heavy fiahllng near Kolosjoki In the center of the district. The Germans obviously have decided to abandon all of north inland and withdraw to Nor way as fast as two remaining roads will permit, the reports said. Railroad passenger travel In creased in the United States near ly 300 per cent in the first two months of !944 over the same period if 1041. f Do You Suffer Distress FronT Ml V With Hi Nervoot At(tiicht1mo if you pun it iruin cram pii, bncknrhe, fpcl tired, nervous, rutlru, a hit moody au duo to functlonul nrrt. odlo disturbance-' Btnrt at onro trr Lydla E. Plnfc Ham'a VpKPtablo Compound to rcllcvo flurh Bymptoms. IMnkhnm'a Compound helpt nature! Ita fcunotia to rcllrva urn nnuoyliiff distress bcrnuso of lt BoothliiK efTci-t on on'S or woman's AIOST IMPORTANT MOANS. J"?" 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