GERMANY: One Slave Per Year

Fifteen quietly dressed young women and an old one richly clad created a terrific furore in Berlin's big Lehrter Station last week, merely because they insisted on taking the train for Hamburg.

"You old She-Devil!" screamed the mother of one of the young women at the richly dressed old woman. "You Vampire! Trying to make white slaves out of honest girls! I won't let you take my Gretchen to Buenos Aires!"

"My good woman," said the richly dressed one, "My good woman, please control yourself. Porter, my bags!"

Cried apple-cheeked Gretchen: "Please, mother! Please,...

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