The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-21
LOVES ONLY HER BOY
GIRL BABY, MOTHER DECLARES "a
"ONLY A NUISANCE" AND SHE
DOESN'T WANT HER
TRIES TO GIVE AWAY CHILD
Husband Strongly Objects, and Now
She Says 1t Is With Regret
That She Keeps the
Pretty Infant.

NEW YORK, March 20.-"Girl babies
are nuisance, you know" said Mrs. Sa-
rah Witte, of No. 426 East Ninth street.
yesterday. They are a lot Of trouble
and bother and worry, and when they get
older they have to be guarded and watch
ed, and it costs so much to dress them.
I thought of all that when this little
Thanksgiving turkey came, and l decid-
ed to give her away and keep only my
boy
The mothers eyes lighted up and a
smile played about her face as she spoke
Of her boy, who is two years old, and her
had stole out and caressed his yellow
curls.
Il thought for a long time that I didn't
want a girl baby, for I can't love one,r
she continued. Little Annie, who was
born Thanksgiving day, is a nice child,
but l don't love her a bit, and it would
be better if somebody took her who
would love her and give her a nice home.
Husband Wild With Rage.
when 1 thought of letting her go 1
put an advertisement in the paper with
out letting my husband know of it, He's
at work on farm on Long Island, but
he saw the paper and hurried home re
was wild with rage and 1 was afraid he
would Kill me if l gave Annie away and
thiQ why she is here now.
But it's too bad. 1 don't want the
baby, and she &C uld get a nice home if
my husband would let her go. When the
advertisement appeared q lot Of people
cane here to see the baby. Some LADIES
came in carriages and some sent them
servants. One servant said her mistress
lived in Chicago and was rich and would
give baby line home If it suited her.
The same afternoon the lady herself
cane in carriage.
''Oh, 1 wish she had Annie now. she
was SO pretty and had such fine clothes
and so many diamonds that / knew the
poor baby would be we'll brought up but
l had to tell her that | couldn't give her
the child because my husband wouldn't
let me- She was so disappointed. She
said the baby was sweet and pretty and
she wanted her so much.
She wanted Annie and I don't want
her, but she can't have her and l must
keep her.
Would you give the boy away, too?"
The mother strained him almost fierce
~ to her and stroke his curls.
Would Die without Boy.
Give my boy away?" she asked. Let
my Arthur go? I'd die if he were taken
from me. l love him so much that
wouldn't let him go for all the world
Nobody could ever get him away from
me. l never let him leave my sight.
couldn't live if he were not with me-"
But the girl should be just as dear to
you She's your child as much as is the
boy"
the small bundle in blue on her knee.
The wave of affection had suosided. She
was as Indifferent as If the beautiful in
FAINT she held were a lay figure.
"Oh, | can't love her." she said. Il
love my boy only. Annie was our
Thanksgiving turkey, but / didn't want
her. 1 didn't want a girl, and when we
came to New York to live | decided to
get rid of her If 1 could. She doesn't
make me feel as the boy does. l loved
him when he was younger as l do now
But Annie Is in the way. She is a good
baby and a pretty baby, but why should
I keep her when l don't love her? Why
should my husband make me keep her
and tell me 1 must love her and be good
to her when 1 can't love herr"
She Keeps Baby Now.
IF you had given her away would
1t not have made you feel bad that
NO said Mrs Witte. ''I should
never care to see her again. She will
be a burden TO me. Suppose that my
husband should die-he is MANY years
older than /. Then I would be left with
two children to take care OF. If | gave
Annie away there would be only the
boy left and ia work for him.
Little Annie would have been gone
by this time if my husband had not
arrived here just when he did He was
50 terribly angry that I'm afraid OF
him. III keep the baby now. My hus-
band might kill me and certainly would
leave me if l gave her away Annie
will stay. but 1 don't want her and
never will"
The mother is a strong, good-IookIng
German, barely thirty years Of age.
She Is poor and lives in a small, dark
apartment in East Ninth street. while
her husband is working on a farm an
Long Island. She has worked hard ever
since she was ten years of age, spend
ing ten years of her life on a poor farm.
where her husband received only SIG
month