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Show French Lads Being (jared for By M.W.of A. o Tlie Modern Woodmon of America organization is today taking caro of between 10,000 and 12, children in France whose fathers have been killed In thliJ great conflict with Germany. The Garland branch of tho order has the care of Master M. Einile, a bright little fellow whoso picture pic-ture wo aro herewith producing by request of tho members of tho Garland M. W. of A. We also take pleasure hi publishing tho following letter which was written writ-ten by his mother and him to the order expressing their appreciation apprecia-tion for tills service: Heaubervillcrs, July 15th, 1918. My Dear Benefactor: Excuse mo, I pray, for my delay de-lay in expressing my sincere thanks for tho help that you have wished to give my dear boy Tho reason is that I wanted to send you his photograph, that I was to have taken as soon as I was notified by the French-American comniltto, but tliere-was a great many before mo and I am going to have It taken this morning morn-ing and will send it immediately. v My little boy will be six years &&2ttbfiilif teNovAilicr inert and I received the ofllcial notification of his father's death the 28th day of November, 1014, tho same day ho was two years old. ST"'' siiw M. EMILE. SIX YEARS OLD My dear benefactor, I hardly know how to express my thanks to you. You so far away and shelterod from all the calamities calam-ities of this terrible war, must have a great heart for a mother of Franco who must strive from mornint' to night to rear a child who will never know his father, through the fault of this preying race of bandits tho Qermons. But we hope that some day soon, with your help, we will be able to drive back these bandits to their lair. You Americans, great and generous, arrived just in timo to 'sustain us.for tho bandits hoped to weaken'us and hold us In felaveiy for having dared to face brigands. As I write, I hear tho cannons which have roared since mid-uight mid-uight and which sound comes from thq. direction of Chateau Thierry, where your troops are fighting shoulder to shoulder with ours. The Prussians mock your soldiers sol-diers as they did tho English at the beginning of the war, but for a month now they commence to know your men, from their heavy hea-vy blows they have given in tho local attacks. My dear benefactor, I till the soil soil, aided by my aged parents, par-ents, and all work with brave heart of winning this war, that tho world shall become free. Accept, dear benefactor, without with-out forgetting your dear family, the assurance of my sincere 'thanks and my everlasting gratitude, as well as that of my I' dear parents. ' Signed: M. EMILE. |