This is an interesting story. Can anyone identify David Shubin and Mary Klistoff?
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HE REVERSED OLD SOLOMON - Referees Made Two Women Take Children They Didn't Want
(From the Chicago Herald)

What would Solomon have done if there had been two women and two children and neither woman had wanted the children, but both had been in duty bound to look after them?

This question came up at Juvenile hall at Los Angeles in the case of two Russian infants and had to be answered. It is the story of David Shubin and Mary Klistoff.

David told his father he loved Mary and Papa Shubin called on the parents of Mary and made a formal proposal. But David had a crippled hand, and Papa and Mamma Klistoff thought a dowry should be given by Papa Shubin because of it. The sum to be given was agreed upon and paid. David started a little grocery store. Business was not good and the store went into other hands. Meantime, Vera and Nashu Shubin were born.

Poverty seemed to kick love out of the window, and the story goes, as it was told to Referee Shontz that after the boy came Mrs. Shubin, the young wife, left home. Because Mary did not stick to her husband, the children were taken to her mother. She cared for them. But David did not send money to provide for them. Because her daughter had gone away, Mrs. Klistoff did not think she ought to support the babies. So she took them to the Shubin home. Mrs. Shubin, the grandmother, carried them back to the Klistoff home and told Mrs. Klistoff she could keep them, as her daughter had run away from them.
Nothing abashed, Mrs. Klistoff gathered up the babies and dropped them over the fence into the Shubin front yard.

Referee Shontz heard the case. She gave Vera to the Klistoffs and Nasha to the Shubins.

Lincoln Daily News | Lincoln, Nebraska | Friday, July 07, 1916 | Page 14
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