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Show 0RPB OF FRJUBCE IIfeOFHDS One Hundred Fatherless : Little Ones Provided for i by Salt Lakers. ! WANT MORE PATRONS I I Work Is Officially Recog- t nixed by the Government Govern-ment of France. i Our. htui'lrefl French orphans linve lieen lro irir-fi for hy t lie poople of Suit Lake and l.'tah. Lt'i'ortM to double the number nf oi-pIiiinB cared for In thin city are be-inq be-inq made. Tlio commttteft on fa.therls children of Krnnce gives aid at the following rales: Ten cents keeps a child one day In its mother' homo; ?;i keeps a child one month In its mother's home; $P,8.60 keeps a child one year in Its mother's home; ! JT.'I kocpH a child two years In Hh moth- it'h home. Any Kuhscriher of S.'Iii.rrft will receive the tin mo and ail-truss of the orphan assigned by the loral treasurer and the orphan will ivcelve the mime and address of the don of. The child, if old enough, writes In tho rimi or, nr tho pnardian writes, and nt'tcn letters of remark able, interest, revealing re-vealing tho d r peat fjratitude, are re-if-h-ed from these su fieri nar children. Kmall donations from 10 cents up are re-ffived re-ffived by the oral treasurer and when the sum" of $;:r.,')it in reached a child is Ut ken In the. name of the committee. A score of such children have thus been ? 'incd tipain.sL want. The French govern nmnt so recognizes tho importance of this work that it grants the. ori'ho snare and a majority of t he, office employees to the Pn ris committee com-mittee of the fit therless children of Vrance, which includes M. Raymond Poin-ftftre, Poin-ftftre, Pour de la Repu bllque I-Vancxilse ; M. Taliileve, tlio Hev. Ir. Watson, rector of tbn American church, Paris, a.nd other prominent names. Dr. Fitch's Statement. IT. Albert Parker Fitch, college professor profes-sor at A niherst, has just returned from France from a fled Cross -mission. He "One. who has beon In .France never I thinks of the war without seeing the 1 children, lookincr like little birds, with rcedllkc a i ins a nd less, scrawny faces and two old eyes. 1 think of the little Ar I saw in I love who lost her right arm because the retreating army had buried a shell in the little pile of coal where she went to pet some fuel for her mother. Or I think oT the little child at Toul, who had been Hterallv frightened out of her wits by shock and horror and s;i I hI ways Riiantf out into the battlefields. battle-fields. France is full of these sick children, chil-dren, sick tor wn nt of a provider and , l.u k of shelter and food, nnrt the terrible j background for it all is the want and I poverty and devastation." No greater work can he done in stricken i France than to give these children a 1 chance, which the war and their fathers' ! dtMths have deprived 1 hem of. Their plight ! is an emergency which must be met, for nogleot during one or two years of the physicsil, mental and moral welfare of the child cannot be repaired later. very cent of money collected goes for the children, no y-art of It being used in expenses, which are met by a separate fund. The local treasurer, T. XV. Koyer, Continental National hank, will be happy to receive any sum, small or great. List of Patrons. Li s I of pa I rons ca ri ng for French orphans: or-phans: T. XV. Royer, David Taylor, Salt Lake Business Woman's club. Miss Olen Walker. Mrs. R. w. Salisbury, liss Maud Fitch. Mrs. Walter Fitch, Mrs. Clarence Pa nibergar. Mrs. AN'. U. Shearman, Mi s. Wah'Otl Thompson. M rs. It. C. Gemmell, R. ,C. Gem me 11, Mrs. T. W. Boyer, Mrs. ( '. W. Whitley, Mr. and Mrs. Karl She' d , M rs. T H . Fit rns wort h . Mrs. J. F. Grilighrr. Mrs, Sol Stcgel, Mrs. Jane Cow ans, .lohn 'Tl XValker. Thomas Quillet, Quil-let, L R. Fullmer, M rs. TV wis Robinson, Mrs. J. C, Outran, Mifcs Florence Hal-loran, Hal-loran, Mrs. T. Fernstcin. Mrs. XX'. Mont rry. William and Truman Ferry, J. E. Ooasrlff. Mrs. .1. C. Wheeler, Miss Mar-lorte Mar-lorte Howard, W- F. Jnse.n, W. TT. Mc-1ntyr Mc-1ntyr Mrs. James W Collins, II. B. Gas-trelJ. Gas-trelJ. Miss Helen Rosen ban in. Mrs. C. H. Thompson and Mrs. H. p. Clark, Mrs. James F. iHinn, Mrs. .M tales Young, Mrs. xr, T Stil ton. M iss Leigh Block and Arfine Tebbctts, Mrs. J. II. Reader, -ViionymoUR. Mrs. Or. 0. Swift, Jesse Kntght, Weoster Magnum, PaJlev Williams, Wil-liams, Mrs. T. W. Rir-hes. J. 11. Fiard-Ing, Fiard-Ing, Fred Stauffer. lr. Beatty, F. C. niv'hmond. Mrs. C. P. Jennings, Miss Myrtle Jennings, M rs. It fayette Hun- hett, John C. Howiu'd. Miss Man.- J. Macl.ane. J. G. McDonald. Mrs. XV. W. Armstrong. Mrs. W. 'L. Green, Frank Pearson, J. William Knight, J. C. Lynch. Mrs. J. C. Uanchett. i J. Sumner, Leon Sweet, Miss Tandenberger, William Callow, Cal-low, Dr. Hosmer, Richard Dowd, Mrs. Wellington .Iike. Miss Browning, Miss Carolvn Williams, Miss Goodricli, Mrs. C. A. XValker, Mrs. F. S. Bascom, H. B. Whitney. James Wolf, Mrs. F. W. Oakley, Oak-ley, Hugh C. Lie wis. Mrs. Ernest Bamberger, Bam-berger, Miss Noble, Miss Georgiana Humphries, First Unitarian church school, Salt Lake City committee twenty. |