Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1914 — NO GREAT DEMAND FOR BOYS [ARTICLE]

NO GREAT DEMAND FOR BOYS

Mat* Children a Poor Second With ~ r Those Who Would Become . Foster Parents. “The French ore receiving In their homes refugees from Belgium and northern Franco. The Germans are doing the same as regards the refugees from oriental Prussia.” ■- The speaker was a returned tourist He went on:; , J “Many French and German households have neither room enough nor means enough to take in a whple family. They must confine themselves to one child. Well, they invariably bid' then for a little girl. They never want a boy. “I have seen In my travels several hundred of these offers to take in children—and every blessed offer was for girls. What is the cause of this? The cause must evidently be that -girls are better behaved, more amiable and nicer all around than boys. “The war, besides teaching me geography, has taught me that female children stand miles higher in popular esteem than male children. What’s the trouble, with us males? We’d better look to ourselves.’’