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Show MME. F0CH THANKS LEG,8 ;y or ( rVife of Famous Marshal Tell.n g'tock Appreciation of Gift to Freniatvtre is War Orphans' Fund. upon in ntliiated A gracious and appreciative 1 exem 'rom Mine. Ferriioand Foch lin" eceived by subscribers to theiln nl?F can Lesion Alission French Wi ihans' Fund, expressing her andyou are ihal Foch's thanks for a gift of fer with! i-hich is to be used for the revice of nd educating of Ave little Fived wit rar orphans. i action A Paris draft for 61,190.52 fr raa presented to Marshal Foch in cas( .eglonnalres on the eve of his ment arture for France last Decemlaccord fter a tour of the United States 'lithe 'lit-he guest of the American Legittne c 'hlj money was to be used to adoa act v war orphans. The marshal aijeJI tadame Foch selected five pod o aughters of officers Ullled In the sei'over w. They have taken for each of t plain iiildren bonds worth 12,000 frt ich. The children cannot touch onds until they are ot age, but1 t icorae from these will be paid ' tl tildren each year. "The mothers of the children adoi' I," said Maditme Foch, in her lettPE A : thanks to the Legion, "have notl?e9er( g but what their own badly paltake ork brings thera and they have no pe of any other pecuniary aid. "I tell you the joy ot these fam- 001 es would be difficult to describe. I as very moved by it. The American ?gion has done a beautiful and a "T red work." ti Economy! fe It fl an j ' at le Buy a cow? Why, how woulo mr feed it? ne he It could live on my Inst year's to aw hats America n Legion Weekly, to fori Memorial Tablets for Vessels. of :he United States Navy department off. contemplating the preparation of gin :iniemorative tablets for vessels of to navy which served during the of rid war. The tablets will be about me by 20 inches and made of metal anc en from i;erman vessels received ea the United -States according to np terms of T.e armistice. fcy |