Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 40 | Babies Cause Added Worries

BABIES CAUSE I I ADDED WORRIES BERLIN neRLIN Dec Del 8 The AThe W A The The high cost of ot living hounds Germans from the cradle to the grave La ettes jr Jr r the bab baby are 10 0 ex- ex ex expensive pensive e fe few fe families can afford them A child s cost from 12 to 20 billion marks In T ln a second-hand second perambulator costa cost 30 gold maiks and the mid mid- wives raid wh es and doctors hivo he 0 all nil placed their fees tees on a a mark gold-mark basis It costs trillions of ot marks to out out- outfit outfit out outfit I fit a new arrival alln In a German family family 1 ly Iy in these days dars of declining paper marks and the trillions are lacking In all families excepting those of ot A Irl iri Is more of a tragedy than a boy babl In the average German family today because ot of the dowry dory which must go with every German girl w ho finds a hue hUs- hus husband band No Ko girl without a dowry can I hUsI avoid being an old maid In Ger Ger- Germany Ger- Ger Germany Germany many and there thero Is little prospect I ot of the average German family ac- ac accumulating ac accumulating I cumulating enough surplus to en- en endow en endow dow with sufficient and money to male make them attractive tive ite to German men who have sucha such auch uch ucha a largo large assortment of or women to choose from because of tho the great toI excess of ot the female nfl 00 population I