| Show I WAIf WHO HAS AS TilE THE LATIN QUARTIER WAIF TWENTY FIVE Gilberts Gilbert s Soldier Father Was Killed and His other lother Died of Grief Then Grief Then Twenty-Five Twenty Amerlean Amer- Amer lean jean Girl Artists and Writers Formed a Godmother God Godmother mother moth r Group to Provide for the Little Fellow Fellows s 's s Other Future Other Groups Wish for War Babies f Dont Don't you love stories of 01 Paris art Student life and the Latin Haven't you Always ways had a secret longi long- long ling i S 'S Sto to climb that hill of hopes and dreams Montmartre 1 Dont Don't yon on catch u flash back hack of memory to lien ien ten there is the tho waif aU in The Prince c Chap Jap adopted by the tM artist after J her herl pother Mother l other died And cant can't you shut your youry Te's Tes y yes r s and see holding her candle at the top of the dark landl landing g. g outside door door Or Louise with her herres lyes res yes yearning and md her head on Julen's Ju Ju- u-I u I lens len's ns n's sho shoulder der watching matching the evening begin to shine In Paris far be- be 1 ivl This W jis Is a 8 s story ory of real life me In the theme themo amo mo setting but actual and oto of 01 to- to o. o ar r. r II By IZ IZOLA LA O 0 the little group of the the art colL colt col- col L m t ony oay left len on ou Montmartre Paris Pari that hero re came a sudden message message- r ilbert Arras an artist who had fOI fO fol- fol I towed wed the into the lost coun- coun tho the roll ca call l of I y was no more on an e living He had not been famo famous s or IT had he ho even exhibited as yet yot but J had ad lived happily with J Jeanne anne his c ming ung ng wife and Gilbert t the baby y iy in itt their sunny Gunny sky parlor and d managed to ell Pell enough to 0 keepe keep latch latch- h- h le e pot au an feu boiling and the fing rIng of at the doo door out ready for fol a alend alend alend lend In need The he day after the news came Jeanne ok her herboy boy to the neighboring ng studio is a friend an American girl Kather- Kather me ine Glover who did not paint but wrote stories Jeanne was tired and was just going for tor a little walk in the open air she s said ld Gilbert would not make any trouble She had not Dot told him yet of at the fate of his soldier father And after she she had gone Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert lay sprawled out on the floor playing paying with paper until he fell aslee asleep i Late In the evening some one brought whispered d word that Jeanne e had thrown hers herself into the S Seine ine After that night Gilbert became a sort of ot joint stock son to the tho wh whole le Quarter Quartier He Was com completely satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied with any arrangement that gave him love and care and h he was only four Death meant nothing to him but a beautiful voyage up Into the blue sky Just what his Is future was to be nobody thought to plan I It was enough that while whilo any anyone one had bad food Gilbert was ryas as loves love's own guest at table Just b before foe Christmas Christmas seven of at the Americ American n girls in the art colony came back to New York T They ey had always had a Christmas tree together for years years and shortly aft after after r. r th their ir arrival they gathered for tea u up at their cl club b and discussed plans for the tion Girls said Miss 1 Glover it seems awful to think of our own happiness and spending the money just just for that Why we could adopt Gilbert as our godchild for fifty d dollars dont don't you yourI rI know Then she leaned forward over the teacups teacup and explained They knew of the godmother movement in Paris how v women each gave a little if only fifty cents a week toward the care ot of either a war war orphan or a a wounded soldier soldier soldier sol sol- dier and bound themselves to carry carryon on that care care as a sort of official god god- mothers The answer was simple Fifty dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars Were laid down before Miss Glover to give Gilbert twenty five foster mothers If you go along West Nest Ninth Street from from Fifth Avenue New York turn building build building into a tall old-fashioned old studio ing and climb two flights of stairs you find yourself in the Golden Studio I should of the Executive Godmother call it that f for r tho the walls are primrose yellow and the sunlight pours in through yellow curtains at the tall taU French windows There are aro golden daffodils Just breaking into bloom In Ina ina ina a big brown jar on a So yellow ellow table and a yellow kitten with drowsy topaz eyes lies curled up on on yellow silk cushions There really should be a aleek sleek leek sloe-eyed sloe swathed in inthe inthe inthe the sacred tint to open the door and salaam before you but there isn't Just a slim small person with the widest widest widest wid wid- est brown eyes and wavy brown brawn hair in a painting smock mock Just the tint of a dried oak leaf and a brown skirt to her angles She is 15 Katherine Glover Glover Gilberts Gilbert's Gilbert's Gilberts Gil Gil- berts bert's first and original godmother back In to Paris the girl who started the roup group Idea here Sitting up on the broad y yellow couch with th the cat caton caton I I E on her lap she tells of the many mothered child and l of all that U lies s back of the ther r giving Up tip of ot that Christmas k tree r rt There were just seven of ofus ofus ofus us us girls at first Alice 3 i B Boughton h t on the photographer some come oDle a artists r t 18 t s Raphaele r Johnson Johns Frances Delehanty a 4 E 3 Claire Avery and Ida HasE Haskell Haskell Has- Has i kell Tessa Kelso who I writes like myself and Beatrice Wilcox librarI librarian n. n f a a I knew all about the wonderful wonderful won won- godmother work bk th that t was being done by bys s t 6 at girls and women in France 4 o at at the No Boulevard Hausmann Hausmann Haus- Haus mann in Paris There d ra the they have haTe organized these x composite godmother groups I for the relief of wounded soldiers a and n 1 r r y war orphans So we wrote to her about o our r. r taking Gilbert Gilbertt rt t for our boy and being responsible p responsible sible Bible for his i r caret care r Meanwhile d Ab Uv M- M t w x news of ot what wha 4 k r we were doing just us girls 1 e d down 0 V n here her spread about and we began t to hear from I o others the r s who r kt wanted to form torm forms I g groups r ups s also t and have godchildren god god- godchildren children o 0 f their own own Our Gilbert Arras four old old Mar nar orphan of the Paris lads Latin own s seven eve n woo is of officially by a group original mem- mem of American girl students artists and writers bers had grown at a cost of 50 0 a year 11 Why hy his apple apple- to 25 girls and hidden smile alone is worth that thaU I l w wa women 0 m e eD n who are really accomplishing big things I dont don't you know I should think having having hav hav- ing godmothers like these would would- really h help lp Gilbert Really help him Was there evera ever a prince with such a shower of fairy gifts over his future Just run over the rest of the names of his twenty- twenty I five mothers Miss St St. Leger Eberle sculptor Miss Zella Zelia de do etcher etch etch- er and recruiting sergeant in the English English English Eng Eng- lish Army M M ss sa Ja Janet et Sc Scudder tor Miss Alice Morgan Wright sculptor sculptor tor Miss Katherine Glover writer Miss E Elizabeth Barry horticulturist Miss Ann Phillips Ph social worker Miss Elizabeth Elizabeth Phillips nurse Miss Carol Flem Fleming ng writer Miss Miss' Katherine Burnett Burnett Burnett Bur Bur- Bur Bur- nett of the Red Cross Miss 1 Alice Simpson artist Miss Z Zulma lma Steele artist art art- 1st Miss Ruby Ross Goodnow w decorator decorator decorator decora decora- tor Mrs Pearl Franklin Godfrey play praY playwright wright ht Mrs de Cordova artist Mrs Edna W. W C Chase ase editor Mrs dArcas I and Mrs I eloise Haynes designer Think Think of being able to address any or al aH ot of these the e girt gifted d l ladles ladies a as dear ear godmother Of having the the theco co concentrated concentrated concen concen- hopes and ambitions of twenty five su such h. h mi minds centred on y your t small mall personality If you were Gilbert nb rU Wo W are going to send our pictures res' res resto to him continued the executive godmother godmother god god- moth mother r fr from front rIi her heir her golden throne beside beside be be- e. e side the yellow the yellow kitten go o he will ivill fe feel l' l that h he be knows us alt all u b by s sight you yot know That gives the per personal sonai bond We can make him t feel el as as' ase he e grows glows older older- that he c can n rely on m love lovo and nd understanding and help and help from alt all of aU of us usAnd I And it tak takes taken so O. O little 2 00 ii a a ye year year- r I apiece in in all She leaned her chin on her palm and stroked the yellow kitten gently I r be believe that tl thought is contagious conta for just as soon Mon as we pia planned ned our group and people heard of It theY they wrote asking how they could get a war baby to care f for r too One woman weiman wom woman wom- wom an in Pittsburgh s said ld sh she didn't ask aska I a pretty child child- but some little unwanted unwanted un un- wanted one J I You see so 50 many want to help and and dont don't know v h how w and here is something tso t tso so personal and tangible and appealing appealing appeal appeal- ing and yet it costs so little mUe that a group can be started anywhere Some girls in one of the big department stores are forming one They say they would like the child of some worker in the big pIg P Parisian stores Eyen Epen little little- sc school 1901 children n want want van to form each giving ten c cents a month The beauty of ot It all to to me me Is Is- that every one one can l help It Isn't for those hos who are re able to to to- volunteer their services in in the actual work Vork over ver there or ar those who cau can caa sign an ample check Just a check Wont wont won't make a godmother You must give love and sympathy and deep personal per per- sc al Interest st st. Th The child must feel that that that-that that big strong t bond ond of love He Ha or oi she must reel feel that e even n while the tha ocean lies between they are constantly inter Interested sted In whatever befalls lIs their their little charge Godmother will be bo l o pleased It must must t think Which godmother god god- god godmother mother ther o Miss Glover laughed mer rily ily n Well all of of c course urse the full twenty five Think what an incentive incentive- It will be to those thoe kiddies when they te feel l they are the he hope hop of af the the new nett France Franc Here nere the the idea Is new but In Paris Pane every wom woman n almost considers It her her- duty to be godmother to o either a w war t orphan or a wounded soldier W We We- cant can't very well mother a soldier r but but- we e can take Gilbert GilbertSo So Sp the little Uttie orphan of the Latin Latin Latin- I Qu Quartier maY may spread spread all those twenty twenty- five p photographs in iri front Of pf him a and andT d- d make aloe e Up pup beautiful romances about about each pretty girl face And who m may prophesy what hat other romances m may maps y- y spring out of his f JUt Just S 'S supposing 1 some tome tome- day when th t war is ds a memory and Gilbert a a. stal stal- stale w hart rt hus husky fet fellow o of tw twenty he com cornea cornea- comes sl seeking is twenty fire twenty five mothers mothers' he lie have to ask all their consents when i he ho chooses choose hoo es a a bride And And while whilo we ve are arc about it think of having t la to plea o mothers mothers law twenty five law n-law |
