The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-22
OFFER BABIES FOR SALE IN WANT COLUMNS Germans Offer Children Quite Shamelessly to
 Public. PRICES HAVE
 A WIDE RANGE If They Can't Sell Them Are Willing to Give Them
 Away.

 Philadelphia, Aug. 22.---ChfNdren are advertised for sale in the German newspapers, according to Sister Hen riette de Marriage Arendt, formerly a police assistant, writing in the "Leip- ziger volkszeitunS'' and quoted in off, ficia1 advices received here:
 About 1,50O,0oo German men have fallen In the war and about 5O0, 900 German women snd children have died of underfeeding during the four years of the war" she writes. The oirth-rate Is steadily decreasing, and one would think that the German Em- pire would take the most active inter- est in bestowing the greatest care upon mothers and children. The child should just at this time be the most precious possession of the nation, which shoud be treasured with tho Dest care conceivable How does it stand In reality?
 '"Just cast a glance at the adver- tisement columns of our daAly papers, especially the Bersner Lol1al An Selger and the Berfaner Morgen Post, In which children are offered, not only as gifts, but also, quito shame lessly, for sale read the following advertisement In the Berliner Morgen Post of March 35. 1919:
 Giri 16 months old. will be dis posed of on payment of 500 marks to her mother offers to be address ed to 173s Ullst Ell Badstrsssc IT.
 "Tne Bcrliner Lokal Anaeiger of March 36, 1919, contained the fol- lowing advertssements
 Boy, six years old, will be given up in entire possession in exchange for a small remuneration. offers to R b42 Nebenstelle d Bl Boullow- strasse 25.'
 offered as Gifts.
 Tn March of this year the Lolal Anseiger offered five boys, four girls and two children, whose sex was not given, as gifts. Thus. for instance, on March 19, 1919:
 'F1ve-month-oId boy to be giv- en away: no remuneration Offers to Dw s11 Telegraph Room, wItten- berg Piatz 3A-'
 Boy. threo years old, healthy. very bright, as gift to boroughly superior applicant Offers O III, NebensteIIer do By Brunnestrasse T4.'
 "In March the 'Beriiner Morgen Post had several boys and six girls to offer.
 Resides these, found in other Berlin and provincial papers alto gether thirty boys, eighteen girls and twelve children whose sex was not given, offered either as gifts or for sale
 ''The 'Graudenzer Gesellige' offered three boys and one girl as gifts On March 13 it advertised a healthy strong boy, giving no age, and a healthy, bright boy (Hans) of three months On March 25 the Deutsche Tages7eftung' offered in huge letters a boy of good German parentage healthy and strong, a gift
 The offers of war babies are es- pectally pathetic. The 'Regensbur- ger Anzeager' of February 2s, 1919 contained tho following advertise ment:
 "Isartfeft entreatyi What noble soul would be disposed to adopt m1 child as its own after my confine nent I was turned away from my home; the father of the child died fl consequence of overexertion in tfs discharge of his military duties.'
 "'RasseIer Neueste Nachrichten, March 20. 1919:
 towing to the death of his wife a soldier who has returned hom' wishes to give a sweet, quiet, fail girl. seven years old into loving hand as their owni'
 "I followed up several advertise ments, especially cases of war babie and orphans. In one case the fathe had returned from the front crippled was without work and his outlook wa very peesimistic. So he wanted to stv away his youngest child. two-year old boy. Likewise n war widow wh has three children and is in delicat health and cannot manage with tn income given her by the state, wishs to gtve away one or two of her chi dren. Ono soldiers wife explained mo quite dryiy that it was SO difficu now to rear children and they cause such a bit of worry. Another says:
 "'N6y husband has at last Eeturne 1 from tho front and wants rest. B' sides, we are both young and ma have chiidren later."-Philadelph Public Ledger.