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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15860, 27 March 1917, Page 5

| Berlin's municipal bureau for promoting the adoption of war babies — i the city at present has 10,000 of them under its wing—is described in the Press as one of tho busiest -war-emer-gency departments in tho whole Empire (says a, London paper of January). The superintendent of the bureau, a woman, reports that applications for children come constantly from all parts of the country. AH classes of parents ("even a oount," sho tells tho "Vossische Zeitung") apply for infants to adopt. One specially delighted "customer," a military surgeon, having secured one baby from the bureau, forthwith applied for two others! Tho children aTe transferred to foster-parents only with permission of their mother, and only married couples may obtain them from tho bureau. The bureau conducts an active advertising campaign, "satisfied patrons" being tho recommendation on which it lays most stress. No commissions are charged. Parents who wish to adopt children can inspect an elaborate collection of photographs before visiting the bureau to see tho children themselves. A publicschool teacher who desired to adopt a baby girl before Christmas wrote in : "A child, after all, is the nicest Christmas present." Ho obtained what he wanted. Only children guaranteed to bo healthy are "dealt in."