Life — December 5, 1918 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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of the war, will still fall the continued ¢ of the children whose fathers will ever return, In behalf of these courageous moth- and their fatherless little tre will for the present continue the rk in which its generous readers have done so much to endear America not ones, ) the French people. It means ly that this timely aid is saving the to become the men nd women of the France of the ture, but that all the children the ders of Live have helped, and are s of children Iping, will grow up with the knowl- ze that, when they needed it, friends to their rescue, We Lire’s readers have \merica cam not think th vd much thor of future gratitude responded so generously to They actuated only hen th r appeal were the impu comes to every dly heart when there comes the op- save a little child from It ns, though, that those children will be men amen, and so long 1 America will bring to their rrunity 10 s something more than the mere country, It will he ssociated in their memories with the me of a far Americans have done Lire has always been proud of the telligence and good taste of its re recognizing ne for the orphaned is not what they have little ones of more proud deeply touched by their Christmas The Children UR children, round a Life cosy hearth, Beg tales of elf and gnome— But, oh, the little child of F Who has no fire-lit home ance, Our children house and park, In game: romp through . content and h, the little child of France, Who has no chance to play! Our children lie in bed at night In y nber deep— h, the hi With no safe place to sleep! tle child of France, we, housed in comfort daily of our store id of F Each homeless ¢| ance may be Gay, warm more! and nerons quick call for for the needy and reaved Outside of the general plan oi helow, there is in formation this year’s Christmas fund, which secks to provide for each of the children on the list a Christmas gift each one dollar costing, in case This to the chi toys and a useful gar- brings as a. surprise ment The toys are made by wounded French soldiers, and the garments hy women and girls who have been thrown m their own resources by the war 1 ne gifts are purchased and distributed from Paris by a committee of French and American ladies whose names already Lire have appeared in THE PLAN oF FR FUND ation of Neu nanies? A contr eventy-three provides that two French child, orphaned by. the be kept with its mother or relatives stead of being sent where its ¢ critical per Hic institutio ances of survival are less tha environment, During. this in the child's life its wel id the funds dis Fran ne ‘ered by em French men The Fr: has co every part of Fran) touch with the children and supervise details of management Contributions of less than seventy-three dollars are combined they ai the larger sum. To those who are unable contribute the whole seventy-three dol ars at one ti a child will be assigned under a pledge to complete this amount. As fast as Lire receives from the Fra ternité the names and addresses of the children and their mothers with particu- lars of the father’s death and other infor- who keep i ROGER FOULLEY, BABY 2929, AND MIS SISTER mation, these are communicated direct] to the contributors for the care of each child. Veuve ~ he enclose will be net ther find be made } Cony DROTHERS, owledged o AND MER rder ¥. Owing to the ork connected. wit comicbooks.com