TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Oct. 19, 1944
PARENTS OF 20
BETTER MEAGER
Elks' Visitor
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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
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to Do With 20 Children In
26 Years of Married Life
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(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
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CANAD
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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.
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