Life — May 4, 1916 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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EERE 46% Babies LYFE expected to be able to announce in this issue that the two years’ sustenance of French Baby Number Four had been provided for. However, we are within dollars of it, as will be seen by the following statement, and there is no doubt that in our next issue we shall be able to announce that Baby Number Four will be taken care of and a start made on the care of another one. FOR BABY NUMBER FOUR Already acknowledged Miss Helen W. Reynolds, Poughkeepsie, N. Y...... R. C, Sargent, Boston, Mass.. Four little K.'s, Sound Beach, Conn. Waldemar Van Cott, Salt Lake City. E. M. Allison, Jr., Salt Lake City. D. R. Howell, Salt Lake City. YE, Haas, Salt Lake City . . H. Morling, Emmetsburg, Ia.. Mrs. Irene Lyon, Jackson, Mi Florence Turner Newell. An Admirer and Sympatl Soldiers. Adeline Pellisier, Northampton, Mass. The following acknowledgments will show that we have, at the time of going to press, received funds to guarantee that forty-six French babies, orphaned by the war, will for the next two years be cared for by their mothers, relatives or friends, instead of being sent to orphan asylums and other charitable institutions. Seth Fly, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Baby No. 18.. : TC. Winiams, Jr., Richmond, Va.. for Baby No, 19. Misa Helen G. Coppell, New York City, (gr Baby No. 20 G.I. D., Hawleyville, Conn, for Ba : James R."Goodale, New York City, for paby Ne. é Mary’ Reed, Boston, Mass., for aby No, 23. #3 Geo” AS*Rernick, Oakland, ‘Cal, for Babies "No. 24 ‘and 25... : + 146 P. A. Brangier, Agnew, Cal., for Baby No. 273 Dr. Rob't D. Cohn, San Francisco, Cal., for Baby No. 27 73 W. 0., Oakland, Cai., for Baby No. 28. 73 Mr, and Mrs. ‘Conrad Reno, Springfield, \Mass., Baby No. 29 + 2 Ralph A. Cram, for 3 ° 33 Mass, for Baby 2 23 ‘outh Lincoln, M 2s 3 Porte: iss Annie Bacon, Bolton rge A. Bacon, Boston, for Baby tor Baby N. Wil York City, for Baby N w Vork City, for Baby No. 37 0. 4s for Raby No. 4o.. ‘for Babies ‘No. an’ Diego, Cai., for Baby Ni Robbins, Hamilton, Mas Caryle ‘and Henry, os Angeles, Cat., for Baby’ No. as. A Gentleman and Wife, of Wallace, Idaho, for Raby No. 46. A Well Wisher, for Baty ‘No. 47 These funds have been converted into French franes, and are now on their way to the Orphelinat des Armées in Paris. This is the central organization, headed by the President of the French Republic, which administers the work carried on by local committees in the towns and vil- lages all over France. Each seventy-three dollars con- tributed takes care of the support of a French orphan for 847 two years in home surroundings. The local committees not only look after the disbursement of the money, but watch out for the child’s welfare in other ways, with a view to its growing up to become a useful citizen of the future France. The Orphelinat will report to Lire the name and address of each child provided for by a contribution of seventy- three dollars, and these, in turn, will be reported, one each, to the contributors of that amount. In addition the con- tributor will also be informed of the mother’s maiden name, the age of the child and, where possible, the place where the father fell. In reply to inquiries as to how the amount came to be fixed at seventy-three dollars, we would say that the Orphelinat has figured that, with French economy, the amount required for the support of a child is ten cents a day. This is at the rate of $36.50 a year, or seventy-three dollars to cover the two years of the dangers of infancy. “Lest We Forget” UNDAY, May 7th, is the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. A Lusitania Memorial Meeting will be held at eight-thirty on the evening of that day for discussion of the moral issues which have arisen between the United States and Germany, and of the Teutonic peril to American ideals, Mr. George Warren Putnam will preside; the principal speakers will be Professor Franklin H. Giddings of Co- lumbia and the Rev. Randolph H. McKim of Washington. “he notice of the meeting includes these words in quota- tio: “\7e condemn the aims of the Teutonic Powers, and we denounce as barbarous their methods of warfare. People of New York who sympathize with those senti- ments should attend this meeting. Admission will be only by tickets, which may be had of the American Rights Committee, 45 Cedar Strect, and at Putnam's Bookstore, 2 West Forty-fifth Street To meet the expenses of the meeting a limited number of the best seats will be sold at one dollar each. For the other seats tickets will be sent free in the order of appli- cation. “ NUMBER, PLEASE?” comicbooks.com