The Washington times., 1921-04-25

infant AWAY.
Pleads Poverty-Found Living
- in Comfortable Home.
~. Gives Child to- Nurse.
By.ANNE DUNLAP.

~ <hAsAN - DOANAhh
FOR ADOPTION-Heaithy, sweet baby
boy two weeks old. to loving parents;
fun surrender MRS. BREcHTEFELD
No. y2s phi pL. Brooklyn Phone
Evergreen I'LL, WF
NEW YORK, April Is. From this
advertisement, appearing in morn
ing newspaper, a novel story was un-
covered today.
: In the home of Mrs. Brechtefeld-
clean, spacious, sunny-the baby boy
was found asleep. in a tiny wicker
basket crib. That lady herself,
ample of form and positive of speech.
busted herself in preparing his din
ner. ~ 49,
NO REMUNERATION.
But Mrs. Brechtefeld is not the
mother of this infant for whom a
home is sought Nor 10 the childs
own mothers home the dwelling place
Of poverty. In acting asi'an agency
through which the little boy may And
flowing parents" Mrs. Brechtefeld
tells one she Is playing familiar role,
and one for which she receives no re-
Enumeration. - s@If
Said this benelent go-between OF
child and parent:
~ have been a nurse and midwife
and so have come across many ur-
fortunate mothers who cannot sup
port their little ones. ! also have
heard OF many childless homes
wherein the babies would be wei
coined and well cared for. ] have
81 aiOht hahIaS
1 always investigate"
HAS COMPLETE CONTROL.
Here Mrs. Brechtefeld opened a
drawer of her sideboard on which was
written:
II. the undersigned. give my baby
boy to Mrs. Minnie Brechtefeld for
adoption to good and loving parents,
as 1 willinever be able to take care Of
IL. EVELYN DURKIN.'
At the foot of the page was the seal
II notary public, through which was
written the name Frederick Weigand.
50 Dill place, Brooklyn" The nurse
tapped the paper and said
"You see / have complete charge
Of the baby. His mother is no Longer
concerned"
IMPOSED ON ONCE.
"And you have done this before?"
"Yes. / have been imposed on, too.
I do not charge cent for this, ana
not long ago a baby got quite SICK
here. costing me $40 in doctors biils:
The address OF the baby boys
mother, Evelyn Durkin. was found to
be Sc Russell street, Brooklyn. There
Mrs. Durkin. very pretty and young
Of statuesque figure, was found living
with her mother and three grown
brothers. A little girl of four. de-
scribed as her daughter. was ABSORBED
in the comics of a newspaper. Mrs.
Durkin explained.
? II cannot support my baby as i
want to. 1t is too hard and l simply
can't do II. l have the other one TO
take care OF. I am a telephone oper-
ator and will go back to work as
soon as l can find a job"
Mrs. Durkin's mother. sturdy, rosy.
about forty-fve. interposed:
NOTHING BUT TEA.
"I would take the baby. but ] have
this one. little Evelyn, and i just can't
do it, My husband died when my
babies were young. / had four and
brought them up without help. But
tell you IL was hard. / don't feel that
can bring up another.
To which the young mother added:
Yes, and many day we had moth
ing but tea and bread. ] would not
like my baby to have to go through
that" ..r
The little boy was born April IL in
Bellevue Hospital, his mother said.
The advertisement for shis adoption
was carried Friday morning. Yester-
day Mrs. Brechtefeld said that she
I'm him sick hnr ds
and would send him back to Bellevue.
She feared that his trouble was seri-
Gus and that he might not survive it.