Life — December 16, 1915 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Fairy Godmothers In the early days of the “ Allies’ War” (August and September, 1914) the north- ern portion of France was brutally in- vaded by the Germans, They came in hordes and brutalized and murdered the innocent inhabitants. All valid men had answered the coun- try’s call and had left their wives, chil- dren and homes to fight the fight of “ life or death.” Men over age, delicate men and young boys fled before the invader to avoid becoming prisoners. Not a woman of Roubaix left her home. Fifty thousand women, in Roubaix alone, remained at their posts and hoped for the return of their husbands and sons, in a few days’ time. Fourteen months have now elapsed and the iron wall still encircles those northern territories and still fighting, through winter and summer, the gallant French soldier has had no news from home! Children have been born, mothers have died, misery and destruction has come into thousands of households, but those fighting have never had a word from home! “Mon Soldat, 1915," has come to the rescue of these courageous and heart- broken men; it has, as far as possible, replaced the absent family. Each one of its members has “adopted” a soldier for the period of the war. It is not your soldier, or his soldier, is “my soldier,” and no one else may have him until I return him well nursed and tended to his Own. Be he wounded, I will follow him to his hospital bed; in the trenches, I will encourage him and cheer him, send him all he needs, write to him often and let him feel even through the maze of barbed wire and the terrors of asphyx- iating gas, the friendly arm still out- stretched, holding him hand in hand. And if he is never to see his dear ones again, if his hand shall never clasp the hand of those he loves, his letters will remain. T have kept them in a drawer, and I will return them to his dear ones, when the veil is lifted and they come to call Startiog “Lighting | on me for all that is left of the one they ing-Ignition Systems loved. for my Ford Car. Mail to Westinghouse Ford Systems Starting—Lighting—Ignition HE NEW WESTINGHOUSE equipment for Ford Cars is now ready; it has been thoroughly tested on Ford Cars in all conditions, and over all sorts of roads, and has demonstrated its thorough reliability. The starting and lighting unit is mounted on adjustable brackets, and is driven by a Westinghouse compensating sprocket through a special silent chain, three tons strong. Everything necessary for the equipment comes with it—switches, armored wires, storage battery, pressed steel battery box, and all details. Deliveries can be made immediately. For further information fill in the coupon and mail to the nearest Station or Agency. Exhibited at New York and Chicago Automobile Shows Atlanta, Ga. Ozburn Automobile Supply Co. Oxlahoma City,-Okla., Severin Tire & Supply Co. ‘i ‘dson Garage Omaha, Neb., Powell Supply Co, Pittsburgh, Pa., Pittsburgh Auto Equipment Co. Springfield, Mass., Motor Parts Co. St. Louis, Mo., Phoenix Automobile Supply Co. ‘Washington, D. C., Record Auto Supply & Service Co. Wichita Falls, Texas, Western Auto Supply C Chicago, IIL, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Mich., Indianap- olis, Ind., New York, N. ¥., Pittsburgh, Pa,, West- inghouse Sales-Service Stations, Sup, 4, 0., The Auto Electric Equipment Co. Denver, Col., Shaffer Auto Supply Co. Houston, Texas, Tel-Electric Co. Kansas City, Mo, The Equipment Co. Minneapolis, Minn.. Reinhard Bros. Co. New Orleans, La., Shuler Rubber & Supply Co. Oelwein, Ia., Chas. W. Bopp Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Automobile Equipment Department Shadyside Works, Pittsburgh, Pa. For Canada: Canadian Westinghouse Co., Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario learn prices on Westing- house Electric Starting - Lighting _ Name JUPITER ISLAND || 2" City, NEAR PALM BEACH At an attractive price, about 22 acres of land on oie i Florida. Having a frontage of about 700 feet Geran and about he are frontage o9 Indian River FOR Near Hobe Sound Station, twenty-fve miles from Fale Geoc crepe Wel wool eho Ten thousand soldiers are still await cels to be sent: “ Mon Sc ing the help of a“ fairy god-mother ” or : "care of American Reli a “‘marraine de guerre,” and if, kind ‘aring House, 130 Bank Street, New reader, you answer our appeal, write to — _ “Mon Soldat, 1915.” 8 Avenue Velas Money Orders quez, Paris, and our office will send you the name and address of a soldier, = Care of Equitable Trust Co., New York, for account Law rence Slade (Treasurer of “Mon Sol worthy of all the kindness you will be dat”). stow upon him. Mavaste Pit. Berano, (de Dana), President “ Mon Soldat, rors.” Paris, October, 1915 By sending a small monthly subscrip- tion you can count upon the Associa- tion to respond to these soldiers’ nec- essary requests, in your name. comicbooks.com