CARD OF
THANKS.
Mrs.
Von Sehovnhoven
and
nep-
hew,
through
this
medium
bey
lo
thank all kind friends
for the many
merks
of sympathy
and
attention
chown them,
during the
illness and
death of the lute
Wiliam Lee
Pen-
theny.
ISN
Bisewhere
ig
this
issue
we
reprint
from
the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle
an
arti-
cle
relating
to
the
birth
and
growth
of
a
two-pound
baby.
It will doubt-
less
bhe
read
with
considerable
in-
terest.
However,
when
our
editor
visited
Coney
Island
N.
Y.
gin
191
he
saw
in
the
ncibaior
there
a
haby weighing but
14
ounces
which
the
drciors told
him
they
were
endeavour-
ing to save by the help
of
science.
The
infant in that
case
was
not
longer
than
the average
hai d and
its head about
the
size of a tiny medallion.
Qur news
item
concerning
the Bolivar
as pubiished
yesterday
was
based
on
a
misunderstanding.
The
boat
arrived at
Frederkisted
only this
morning
and will
call here today.
Mails close
in this
town
atloa
m.
5
Two navy hydroplanes,
the
AGOOUL
and
A6HY2 arrived
here vesterday
afternoon
having encireled
the
island,
and are
now
anckbored
in this harbour.
Our people
4
e
having their first
look at
a real flyinz ma-
chine
and
crowds
are attracted
to inspoct
these.
The '‘Contdcook,””
U.
53
N.,
a
sort of
tug, arrived at this port this morning.
We have been
asked
to
mention
that
the Native Brass
Band
will givea
con-
cert
on the
wharf
this evening,
2-Pourd
Miracle Baby,
Alier
Months
in incubator,
Is
on
Road to Healthy
Wemanhood
The
smallest
baby
who ever
lived
in
this
city is claimed by
the
Long
Island
Collegae
Hospital.
Aftera four
months
fight,
physicians
declare,
the tiny
scrap
of humanity
now
has
every
chance
of
growing
to
Healthy
wemanhood.
The
little garl,
who
is regarded
as
a
miracle
baby,
was born
at six and
a half months
and
weighed 960
grammes,
alittle
less
than
two
pounds
Her. head
was
the
size
of an
egg,
her
feet the size
of
a
woman’s thumb,
and she
measured
less
than
12 inches
in length.
This baby is Theresa Schuster,
daught-
ST CROIX
.AVIS
er of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schuster,
of
325 Henry St.
Today sbhe-tips
thascales-
at
five paunds
eizht
ou-c:s.
Born
on
Septembér
8. ‘it was
touch
anl
go with
death
for
the
first
twn months
“while.
the
physicians
used
every
means
[if:
their
power
to- keep
the -tiny flame of
life ‘burning.
The
baby
was
piaced in
a
specially
designed
incubator
such
as
is used
at the
hospital
with a
svonge
in
the bottom
to keep
-the baby
from
"'dry-
ing
out”
on
the
same
principle
as
a
humidor.
ileat
was suppiied
by
electric
light bulhs.
)
The baby
was
so
tiny
that
her
dizes-
tive organs
had
not
tully matured
and
she
con!d
not
tell
the
difference
be-
tween
breathing
and
swallowing.
Her
natural
tood
was
too
rish
for
her and
had
to
be diluted
with 50 percent
of
wa-
ter.
The
doctors
tried har
with
a
meadi-
cine dropper,
but
the
baby
breathed
the
milk
into
her
iuogs
and
turned
biue.
She
was
turnel
upside
down
and
the
milk
shaken
qut
after
which
she
was
said throuzh
a tub 2 of soft rabher
direet-
ly iho the sthomach
It was
fed through
the
tube
every
two
bhoars,
but
15
days
after birth
her
life
was
still
despaired
of and
the
little
mite
hhd
a
tempera-
ture
of
10!
degreas,
when
13
tempera-
ture should
have
been
93,
- Fourteen
days
after
the baby
was born
—slie
was
one
of twins.
ber little sister
dying
at
hirth-—-the
mother
left
the
hospital.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Schuster
have
been
married eight years
and
were eager
to
have
a .child.
Mrs.
Schuster
is
29
her
husband
23.
The
mother’s
hope
and
anxiety
moved
the
physicians
to
take
an
even-greater.
interest
.in
the
case,
and when
Mrs.
Schusier
took
her
Jittle
girl
home
on
Christmas
Eve,
it
was
the hapoiest
day of her life.
On that
date
the
weight
of the
baby
was
44
pounds,
:
¢
:
Acceording
to medical authorities
babies
weighing
less
than three pounds
are
not
considered
to
have
a
fighiing
chance
for life which makes
Theresa’s
case
one
of profound interest
to
the
medical
pro-.
session.
The Long Island College H)spi-
tal bas
broken
a record.
It
established
one
last
year
when
out
500 babies
born
only 24
died.
A great
mary
of
these
had
something
abnormal
about
them
yet the infant
mortality
was
neverthe-
less
very
low.
Theresa
lay
in her
pink
quilt
basket
yesterday
her
blue
eyes
looking
at life
rat!'er quizzically,
Mrs. Schuster
took
the
baby
back
to
the
hospital
on- Wednesday
when
her
weight
was five pounds eight ounces.
On
Tuesday
the little mite
was
exactly four
months
old, the
physicians
said that
all
danger
is
ever.
She
must
be carefuly-
ly guarded
and fed
but
she
has
the
same
chance
[or
life and
health
-now
as
aay
other
little
baby
despite
the
tremendous
handicap
with
whieh
she
faced
the world.—Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
Jan
6th.
-
TELEGRAMS::
.
.
:-. ST.- CROIX-STATION.
"~
Londoii, Jan.
18:h.~Perhaps.
the
sen-
sation
of teday
is
ihe Wiiston Church-
ill .manifesto,
which
eonstitutes
him the
pivot of 2 movéement
(hat has<been
lang
fomenting
to
“keep iabour.out.”- His
enslaught
probably
comes
too
lote
to
effect its object,
but-it
willfocus
a large
body of opinion
in the country
and bring
him into line with Lord Birkenhead
and
other
adlierents
of that- movement
who
are
working actively
to bring
about
a
new centre
pariy,
made
up of both Con-
servatives
“and
liberals.
disagreeing
with tike present
official Liberal poliey of
helping Labour
into office.
1t is
consid-
ered
exceedingly
improbabie
that
the
Commors
will
adopt
the
course
Mr.
Churebill
recommends.
Mr. Churchill’s
manifesto
begins
by stating.
“'The cur-
rents
of party
weliar2 are
carrying
us ail
inro Ydangerous
witers.
Ihe
eothrone-
ment
in ofiice
of a Soeialist
Goveroment
will
ne
a
seriou:
national
misfpriune,
such
as has
usualiy
befallen
great
states
only
on the
morrow of defeat
and
war,
It will place
both
(he Liberais vnd Labour
parties
in
a
thoroughly
unfaviurable
position.
The
Likeral Party
will be
led
into supporiing
the Sociaiists,
whom
they
have
just been
fighting in the
bundreds
of
constituencies’’.
Puiniing
out
that
the
Labour
leaders
must
be weil
awvare
tnat if they have
recourse
to the
rem dies
in which they believe they
will b 2 irame-
diately
disinissed.
Mr.
Churchill
says
“ifthey
are
eager
for cffice
under
these
unfair conditions,
it
can only
be because
they see in the prestiee of office and in tie
assunption
of administraitve
power
the
means
of preparing
and shapiag
issues
in
the
near
future for a far greater
political
convulsion
thaw
we
have
yet
experi:
enced’”’.
Declaring
that
it
would b 2 to
jay too
heavy and
too invidious a
_burden
on the sovereign
tp expect
that the King
should
refuse
dispensatin
to
a
Labour
Government,
Mr.
Churehill
continues
“‘general
election
issues
fundamental
to
the existing
state
ol
society” and
pre-
sided
over by
a sociaiist
Governmen’
ac-
tually holding the reins
of othee
wili be
a
formidable
event.
But it is the
conclu-
sion
and
eclimax
towards
which,
at
the
present
moment,
the oflicials of
all
par-
ties
are
obstinately
marching’’.
Warn
ing that sirife and
tumult, deepening
ana
darkening,
can
only be the
consiquence
of a minority Steialist rule, Me
Churchiil
contends
that such
a developinent
is
not
inevitable,
and that
i is the business
of
the
House
of Commons,
now electad,
10
express
its whole
inind and
to relieve
the
Crown by
every po-sible
means
trown
the
difficulty of controversy.
The House,
he
pcints
out,
is the
c¢ntire
master
of
its
procedure
in this
matter,
and
can readily
give effect to its wishes
whatever
they
may
be.”
He then
uhfolds his
proposed
plan,
which
is
that
after
the
Ciynes
:mwendment
has bzen adopted
the
Com-
mons should
resume
its
debate
on-oiher