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Show . 1IIAIIIS BUY BABIES AT J 20 CENTS EACH Business Started When Sister Saved Child From Death SHANGHAI. May 31 (AP) Twenty cents silver fa the standard sal prico for unwanted babies in Shanghai. A year ago babies could be "had for nothing, but the nuns of Sicca Sic-ca we. convent to keep Chine mothers from throwing infants Into the river, started paying for children chil-dren brought to their doors. In the Virgin's garden of the convent con-vent Urge basket la kept beside ' sn open door. Twice or may he Thre times a flajTS screaming Ml of human life 1 deposited therein and an eager woman holds out her hand for a piece of silver. The business of buying unwanted babies came Into exit-Hence when a . iter, eeelng a woman on the point M of tossing Ikt new-born daughter ' into the Whangpoo river, tried to I; I . explain in the mother the eerlouii- nesa of her offeiife. The Chinese I x-ornan failed to see wby she should not throw her baby away, where- upon the sister offered to buy it fur a SO-cent plcre. All srgument a. erased. The woman took the coin y and disappeared. I EAGER CLAMOR The next morning there was an ! eager clamor outside the convent. Nearly a hundred women were g there-waiting to bargain with the r nisters for their babies. It mut-1 mut-1 tered little that most of thorn hnd been told that the foreign women , killed the babies .and made them Into medicine. Twenty cents lpomed large to the Chlneno mothers and A bnby Is only a baby. The majority of the children left ith the sisters are very young. Two or three hours span the majority ma-jority ot their liven In the outside ' world. Thy are brought wrapped In dirty clothes, some vf them mutilated. mu-tilated. The. sisters give them immediate im-mediate medical attention, then feed them. RUN CONVENT The Helpers of Holy P011I9, a French organisation, is in charge of 1 the work at the convent. Thy have ben at the business of raving Chinese children for 60 years and. although they started In the face of grave danger and handicapped by the ignorance of the woinMi lhy tried to help, they have succeeded In carrying on their work un- I 4 hampered- ' Boy babies brought to the convent . are placed In Chinese homes soon 1 after their arrival. At the age of ; seven they are eerlt to a boy's1 school run by the society, where I they are taught wood carving, printing, photography, sculpture or painting. The girls are kept by the sisters. Thy are taught to pray. read, and write, sew and make lace and embroidery. |