Life — October 26, 1916 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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722 “LIFE: The Survival of the Fittest Babies ‘a even the best equipped public institution and under the most skilled supervision the death rate among young children is higher than where the children are reared in home surroundings. Their parents may not be wise in-all things, but certainly a mother’s care supplies something that increases the child’s chance of living through its ten- derest years, to say nothing of the matter of the happiness of both mother and baby. Back of the work of the Orphelinat is the idea that the future of France is tbe conserved by the children of the present—that they must be saved to save France. With Lirt’s contributors to this: fund that idea may also be present to some extent, but we think we are not mistaken when we attribute their generosity to two other motiv their admiration for France and for French character as shown in the present crisis and to a feeling of infinite sym- pathy with the sufferings of the innocent victims of the war—the little children and their brave, widowed mothers, MARIE ETOURNEAU, BABY NO. 197, HER WIDOWED MOTHER AND HER TWO SISTERS YOUR SHOE-LACE 1S UNTIED!” left to fight the battle of life for themselves and their orphaned children. The generosity of Lrre’s readers enables more than four hundred children to be kept with their mothers or relatives instead of being sent to public institutions. A contribution of seventy-three dollars provides that for two ars a destitute French child, orphaned by the war, will be pt with its mother or relatives instead of being sent to a pub- lic institution, where its chances of survival are less than in a family environment. During this critical period in the child's life its welfare is looked after and the funds disbursed by the Orphelinat des Armées, an organization officered by President Poincaré and other eminent French men and women. The Orphelinat has committees in every part of France, who keep in touch with the children and supervise details of management. Contributions of less than seventy-three dollars are combined until they amount to the larger sum. As fast as Lire receives from the Orphelinat the names and addresses of the children and their mothers, with particulars of the father’s death and other information, these are communi: gated directly to the contributors for the’ care of each child. The full amount of the funds received by Lire is put into French exchange at the most favorable rate and remitted to the Orphelinat with no deduction whatever for expenses. We acknowledge, with gratitude, from Kanawha War Relief Association, Charleston for Babies Nos. 423 and 42. Laura B. Pentel w York Cit H. S. Firestone, Akron, O., for F. N. Doubleday, Garden Cit; '0., 427 Mr. and Mi No. 428 . E. P. E,, Washington, D. C., "for Baby No. 429. Katharine G. Seager,’ South "Pasadena, Cal., ‘for 0. 430... Mrs. David Meade “Massie, “Chillicothe, No, 431. Ira B. Joralemai Dr. and Mrs, E. Fred’ Auit, “Knoxville, Tenn’, for Warren, Arizona, for Baby No. °, Ellett, Memphis, Tenn., for No. 433 + Neni de Vaserve’ Toihaus, ‘Portland, Oregon, fo FOR BABY NUMBER 418 Already sclnow ledges . “M," "Amherst. Mass. A Friend,” Boston, Mass. In memory of a little girl,” Longmeadow, Mass. Wm. 'S: Howe, Dayton, © . comicbooks.com