The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-19
WANT TO BUY A BABY?
HERE'S FOR SALE
Annie Wouldn't Give Mile Up,
but, You See, It's the
Only Thing to DO.
TWO OTHERS MUST BE FED
And Maybe Sometimes She
Could Slip BY and See Mile,
but BOther-Never.
TWO OTHERS MUST BE FED


Mile Zabela. who Is two months old.
and crows delightfully."-. Miles mother.
Annie. will sell her baby to you. But
you must hurry up or Annie will starve
and then OF course Mile will die
The mother promises fervently that she
will not bother any good man or woman
who buys the baby once her infant has
changed hands.
Mice people like I'd sell Mile to-"
Annie told THE Sun reporter yesterday.
maybe wouldn't want me to come around
their fine house after they buy my baby.
me being dressed so poor And me being
so sick would make them not want to
be bothered with me coming to see Mile
either.
But II It could be put in the court
papers where nice people that want TO
buy the baby live. then maybe could
stand in that street sometimes and see a
fine nurse wheeling Mile to the park or
something. But / promise I won't try to
speak TO Mile OF go near any fine house
where she Is. but just watch her, maybe,
wheeled by some days. IL they'll only
give her n good home / promise to stay
away"
Mile was sucking at a bottle OF boiled
water while her young Italian mother.
whose husband deserted her three months
before Mile was born. told of her nigh.
against sickness, lack OF work and starva-
ment. bed. a chair, a couch. "A trunk. a
few cheap Autographs on the wall. twJ
or three empty plates and the heel OF
a loaf of stale bread on a small deal
table were the contents OF the tenement
except for Annie and the baby.
Allen street. where the elevated
stretches from building line to building
line and makes the narrow street a place
OF twilight even when the sun IL shin.
ing as II was yesterday. is perhaps the
least pleasant thoroughfare on the con-
tinent TO be cooped up in. And Mrs
Annie Zabcla cannot even see out inc
Allen street. Her two rooms arc In tn
rear tenement. which you reach by pass.
ing through covered passageway.
And the Rent Soon VIII he Due.
The passagtway, you who may want
10 give Annie something TO eat at least
for day should know. il at - Allen
street, which is just "A few doors north
OF Grand street. You go up to tho third
floor of the rear tenement (where the
rent money. 81 month, soon will b.
due. by the way and knock on the door
marked No. g. Annie will be home She:
too i'll to go out.
Don't go to see her with the motor
that she wants to sell her baby in ord y
to get money for herself. First of al
she wants tor. rather, feels that she
has to-part with Mile for all time be
cause this is the only way the baby viii
get food and clothing and home. Ant
Annie will take money. whatever is of
fcr.d," for Mile because Annie. despit,
her mere 20 years, is the mother OF 9
boy years old, Tony and "A girl of 4
Josie
AT the hospital" said Annie the doc
tor said l must go away or I will die
Tony can't 20 to school because he ain
got anything to wear except a pair o
pants and an undershirt. Jessie amt go
T clothes for a long time.
80 I said, Maybe somebody will bu.
Millie.' When you bear them so long an
there's all the pain and everything, IL
wrote the note to the newspape
saying l would sell Mile II know tn
people that buy her will feed her and kee
| her right. A woman here walked dow
| to the newspaper and gave them the not
for me. while / stayed here with Mile.
Ever since I've been waiting for some
| body to come up, maybe In an automo
| bile. to buy Mile. Then / could bu
things Tor Tony and Josie and maybe x
away like the doctor told me to- DO 20
think anybody would pay for Millie?
never had to do this before, so / don
| know whether they'd pay any money tina
would help Tony and Josie.
I'D put Mile in the home at Sixty
eighth street but they said I'd have I
| stay there too. and look after her, an
| | can't leave Tony and Josie. They're
big and smart I couldn't give them NJ
| couldn't Maybe / can't give up Mill
II somebody comes to buy her.
Death of GREAT Ambitions.
"Oh. wo had great thoughts when m
husband and my brother came here wit
me from Naples. That was twelve yea
ago. We all worked In the farms outslo
Naples together since We were IKE Tor
and Josie. and we all came here to X
rich. | was married here 10 giuseppe
that's my husband--and everything W;
fine. But he began to drink and
went away from me. and he came baC
; and then he went away last winter
II never heard where he went n
brother buys anything we have to ca
But sometimes he can get work only ~
days week, and he has wife al
: children of his own to support. He's
fine brother TO me. Last month he pa
) my rent too, but maybe he can't get u
81 between this and the first OF Jul
! don't know"
She doesn't want to go back TO Ital
1 Annie says. even II she could. This
e "a big fine town, where respectf
= woman can get along respectfully
, only she knew that the baby had hon
and she herself had chance to get w
again and go to work.
0 "And what work can you do?'
r Lots of things" she cried eagerly.
A can cook fine and sew fine. Maybe sor
place there's good family that's got
l. farm or something where they go
: the summer. like rich people do. IL
a could go there! I'd do all the work a
D everything was strong enough to do a
get stronger right along. NIL
. wouldn't bother the rich people at all O
4 liz shaN