The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-01-07
MANW0uLDSELL
H|S2 CHILDREN
OFFERS BOY FOR $1,000 AND
FLAxEN HAIRED GIRL FOR
I 4 Mra $1,000.
HAS HAD MUCH Ill LUCK,

. NlA MtskNAIN~nt+s I+EH1EfH WHFYrs. #ElH "a Neesf| Fl 49,.
HAS HAD MUCH H LUCK,
ST. LOUIS NO, ian. WANT
to buy a little girl ar a little boy?
There are two for sale, one Of the
yellowest haired, biuest eyed, health
lest little girls you ever set eyes on.
The price, $4,000.
Maybe you'd rather have a boy.
He's offered at a bargain, $1,000.
He's a fat, chubby, aaxen-haired
youngster. too. You'd call him jus,
about as healthy as any little boy
you eyer saw. Hes full OF fun, too,
and he has great blue eyes that
show strength of character and fine
spirit.
How much is a baby worth? Well,
let's sec, II it's your baby it's worth,
its weight in gold. Isn't that right?
Every child is worth It weight in
gold. Here, then. is a bargaiR A
bright-faced. CHEEKY little girl, 8
years old, for the meage- sum Of
$4,000. a liappy7go-luSky, bubbline
boy..rs years old, for half the price
of the girl. Is there u taker?
It's the father. Stephen Godoo, a
Hungarian ,llaborer, who II offering
.tl,cmsfor sale. therefore the sale win
be. bona ,1de. No strings to the Of
fcr.K Give IGodo tls cash and ,hs
babies are yours, to have and te
holdfforeyer and a day.
Once upon a time a man entered
a little dry goods store in the East
Side in Me-. York and priced Tari;
GUS things, from scent liandker.
chiefs to ascent suspenders. A lit.
tie mite of a girl played on the com
ter. She, was the daughter of the
aged couple who owned the, store.
GLOW much for the little girl?,'
asked the customer. jokingly.
Not for s1%,OO0,00O.. said the
old old mother mot for $1,000
oOo."
And 100000 wouldn't have
bought the little girl.
Neither would it buy yours.
Stephen Godo, who became the
central figure. or nearly SO, in this
queer little tragedy when he ad.
vertised his children for sale. in the
newspapers yesterday, is in a pc.
culiar fix. 1t may be well to con;
slider the case of the Hungarian Ia,
borer before passing judgment.
The wife Of Godo and the mother
Of the children who are offered on
he block died October /, 1912, and
ever since the foreigner, knowinr
little English aad wholly unuset
to. the ways of an adopted country
JAS had the seve.est Of struggles ii
caring for the babies.
: Ile Sdnie W shtheiASa aoous
years ago. Margaret. the daughter
being a very tiny baby at that time
while her brother, who is Stephen
IT.. was Il toddiins youngstcr.
Godo had Jared not we'll in til,
I'D country. He had been a servan:
20 a wealthy landowner and made
little money. lie saved sufricien
or his passage to America 3nly Of.
or long years OF saving.
America he hailed as the land o
promises; the place OF golden pp
2ortpnity. whare poverty was un
g;nown:,, He. soon learned his mis-
axe. Going to the farming distrif
adjacent to Port. Huron, Mich: Il
arranged, to work q farm on shares
2uts his crop, failed season, aftei
season. Finally the wife became II
and through u long, tedious sick,
ness ~heaspcnlt, hc says several hun.
lred dollars for medicines and ser
" -HAnA.. ". !.
ices of a physician,
When she died a little more thai
a year ago he had notlins-noth.
'rg brit the two children. He hat
n brother. Emory. in St. Louis. a
whose home 1910 sarpy street, thu
Hungarian and the children are nov
living. They have been there sine
Godo arrived here four months ago
and, while the brother is willing te
ielp as far as he can. he has a.wift
and four children of his own; ant
1t is all that his wife can do to tahS
are of; her own.
Godo has Jared poorly since his
arrival here. having gotten only DDS
US here ami there, and lie now q
indebted to his brother to the cs.
tent Of SIS.
The idea Of selling tire children
seems to have come of q sudden i'm,
pulse, No one suggested 1t to hin
he says, and 1t das difficult for ID,
reporters with whom lie talked 4
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