Not Enough Storks

French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace.

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