Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-18
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a human being had shared the
lodging of the beast over a
friod Of years.
Our captive was exhausted
and offered no resistance, so we
brought her to the Bakirkey
Hospital where she has been
living"
The girls identity was never
discovered and Turkish doctors
wonder if they can ever make her
human again. She is now thir-
teen years old and it was only
recentlJ that she smiled. She
has not learned to walk for any
long period of time. She will
stand from time to time to reach
something, just as her foster
mother. but she runs, walks and
climbs on all four.
The girl now lives with other
children in the hospital. though
at first she was kept alone and
out-of-doors because she at
tackled all who came near her.
Little by little she has ceased to
be a beast but without becoming
a human being. Hospital author
tiles decided a short time ago to
bring her into contact with other
children, in the hope she will
learn to speak from them.
Hunger ,adsnt Ter to take
human diet. curing the first
few months o. her captivity"
she refused cooked food, but was
gradually weaned to partly
cooked food.
DERHAPS the most unlikely
animal to act as foster
parent of a human child is the
selfish pig, yet there is a sur
MGisingly long list of such cases.
= Nearly all these pig-educated
boys and girls were Of lower
mentality even than the wolf
children, so that they could never
be made to reveal the history of
their adoption, even if they re-
membered II. One boy, known as
Clemens of Overdyke,' was
adopted sufficiently late and re-
turned to human life sufficiently
soon to give an account and a
clue to the other cases.
Only a student of the history
Of the times can visualize the
background in which one Of the
epidemics of animal adoption
occurred in Germany. After the
Napoleonic wars, most Of the
Contemplating peoples had
been reduced to a level of de-
vastation and poverty far worse
than that of the Russian peasant
today.
The country was full of able
bodied men and women on the
verge of starvation. begging
unSlccessfully from those who
had nothing to spare, stealing at
night from the few fields that
were being cultivated and always
ready To turn robber, when
chance offered itself.
Also. there was a scattered
army of homeless. orphaned
children. filthy. diseased little
beggar-thieves who failed at both
Of these undertakings and could
not hope TO be bandits.
These wretches greped around
the forests and meadows. mostly
dying of starvation and exposure.
a them, anything in the way of
d and shelter was acceptable.
and the pigs in their sty with
the assurance of daily food
seemed TO have achieved an en-
viable social security.
a few persons. who still had
some means, managed to help a
little by opening asylums here
and there. such as that Of Count
Won der Reckless at Overdyke A
boy, apparently around the age
of u. bleeding. almost naked.
scratched and SCARED, but not
very badly undernourished. was
found and taken TO the Over
dyke Orphanage At first he
gave only animal eruntS bat per-
sistent. kindly questioning at last
brought out two facts that could
be understood.
He came from the other side
of some water" and his name was
Dirty Thief" Since he had
appeared on St Clemens Day he
was renamed Clemens. No
sooner was he released from the
questioning ordeal than he
crawled on all fours mo the
salad garden. where n Dotted
around pulling up ana eating
things. just like a pig. Forced
to stop, he stood up, shifted the
air. and following his nose,
went straight to the asylums pig
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