Life, 1917-06-21 · page 26 of 38
Life — June 21, 1917 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page documents **Life magazine's fundraising campaign for French war orphans** following World War I. The editorial explains that Life is collecting donations to support orphaned babies in France and their widowed mothers—not just materially, but by enabling mothers to keep their children together rather than lose them to institutions. The page lists hundreds of donors and their contributions, creating a public record of charitable support. Three photographs show actual French children being aided: Marcelle Mallet with her sisters, sisters Emilienne and Eugène Hastey with their mother, and baby Yvonne de St. Denis. The satire is gentle: Life "doffs his hat" (shows respect) to readers for their generosity. The point is to shame wealthy Americans into donating by publicizing others' contributions and showing the human faces of suffering France. This reflects post-WWI American charity work and the magazine's role as both satirist and social advocate.
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1078 LIFE Doffs His Chapeau IFE tak felt gratitude for their combined gift of more than one hundrgd thousand dollars to bring material aid to the orphaned babies of France and solace to their widowed In reading the hundreds of let- s off his hat to his readers in sincere and heart- but courageous mothers. ters that pass through this office from the mothers in acknowledgment of the allotments to their children, it is impossible not to be impressed with the double mission of these gifts. The aid to the babies in keeping them with their mothers is obvious. Not so evident is the comfort to the mothers in being able to keep their little families together, and thereby gain courage to face their affliction, their poverty and the dread uncertainties of the future. Every dollar contributed to this cause is a double gift to suffering France. To be more exact writing, $102,401.61, $80,123.70 francs. We gratefully acknowledge from Lire from which we have remitted to Paris has received, up to the present Joseph Osgood Plaisted, New York City, for Baby No. for Baby No. 1350 for Baby No. 138 3 for Baby No. 13 Jee . and Sallie Taber, Keokuk, Iowa, for Babies i and 13ca. Misses Fanny, Marian and’ Kitty’ Wickes, Tuxedo Park, N.Y. for F . Mr. and Mrs, Peck, New York City, for Baby No. 3 it nA. Ro » New York City, for Baby No. 13 East Side High Sct . > ark, N . for Baby No. 1358 Ta memory of Gi ‘Chicago, lil, for Baby Nos. ‘1300 ‘and 1349 , “Cleveland, "Ohio, LIE W. H. Ellis, Marguerite John E. Newark, N, Clark, William: J.. for Baly No. 1368. “eee ‘ashington. 19, C., for Baby No. 1369 Pittsburgh, Pa. for Babies Nos. 1370 ‘ ‘ 136 tsburgh, Pa.. for Baby No. 1372 33 W. PL Anderson, Chicago, lili, for Baby No.” Widme’ iuiiders’” Giass' “ofthe “Wi demere “Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, for Baby wks Charles O. Paullin, Washington, D. C., for Baby 0, 1375. The Misses Dorothy and Gwyneth Craig, Westmount, Ca for Baby No. 1376. A. Whelan, Weston, W. Va.. "for Baby No. Newark ‘Women’s High School Teachers Newark, N. J., for Baby 1378. Mrs. A. J. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. F."D. Aller, Baby No.” 1380 : Anonymors, Beaver Fails, Pa The Uattalion of Negro s ton, Va., for Babies Nos. Miss Maud "A. Wilmot, “New No. 132 é Mr. Mrs. No. 1365 Virginia CB. Cross and’ Eliza more, Md., on account of Baby No. The t he PAssociat on Dublin. Nv H., for Baby ry, ‘Antofagasta, Chile, 8. A.. for mpton Institute. Hamp. 1383 and 1384... snes , ‘Orleans, La., final for Bal Col.” on account’ of 1 ‘inridge Cross.” Matti $19. FOR BABY NUMBER 1341 Already acknowledged... Mildegarde Crosby “and Lawtor miin Crosby, Lake” Gre Bt Ber FOR BABY NUMBER 1364 Mrs. Harriet Z. McCarty, Berwind, W The Invincible Club, L L. W. B.C. of Imman Ohio eviorsie arts : The men in Hodges’ Drug Store *. E, Couch, Parkersburg, W. Va Flizabeth Huse Brown, Boston, 3 Eby, Spokane, Wash . North Sydney, C Pittsburgh, Pa. 5 Miss Florence Woedmansce, Avondale, “For Our Child,” Sch “From a Yankee Siste Cine Boston, “Mass.- Winsor, Cleveland, "Otio, for’ Baby esate Miss Jeanette Johnson, Omaha, Baby No. 1365 . “Six Admirers of Frai for Baby No, 1367. “News for Toledo, Ohio, FOR BABY NUMBER 1382 L, “From a Miss Thelma H. Whit, Lincoln, Iii. J.-H, English,” Sonora, Mexico. .-- MAKCELLE MALLET, BABY $0, AND HER EMILIENNE AND EU SISTERS 799, WITH THEIR MOTHER E MASTEY, BABIES YVONNE DE ST, DENIS, BABY 1006 comichooks.qom