Show american boy meets his french sister mrs L R fournier returned thursday from her trip to france where she had gone to attend the american legion convention in paris proceeding from there to her old home town bayonne to visit her parents parent and her little laughter daughter jeanette who had been borne in france while mrs fournier was there on vacation jeanette came I 1 home with her mother and the salt lake tribune published a picture of mrs airs fournier and her son rene born bom in utah and her laughter daughter jeanette born bom in france and says when the kaiser undertook to subdue the world including uncle sam mr fournier was one of those who went over there and helped persuade that ambitious person to change his plans when the war was over va various r 1 duties of cleaning up kept t the h e engineers busy and it was the summer of 1919 before fournier was or dered home then he decided he just come alone and he and nille mile lafond a belle of bayonne france were married there early carly in august and came to america together stories of war brides and war marriages were common soon after the war but these young people were vere so happy with each other that they bother with what special writers were saying about such unions generally they came to richfield and there may 16 1920 rene was born bom mrs fournier liked america and still likes america but after three years in this country she simply had bad to go back to see her own people again so she went for a long visit to france their little girl jeannette was boyn hom there november 30 1922 and rejoicing was general fournier who had been unable to go to france with mith his bride thought he could hardly wait until the little girl came home but he lid did and he waited much longer than he had thought was possible when the baby girl was mas ten months old 01 mothers ticket was about to expire and she felt that she should come home but baby was ill not just a temporary illness but one that puzzled the doctors they said lid she could not stand a long trip trig and mut must not be taken to america at that time so mrs airs fournier did the only thing she could left baby with her mother an and d sister and came home to husband and son since then there lias has been a main in tin topic of conversation in the fournier home it has been little jeannette and her homecoming home coming for the chill child began to improve about a year after her mother had come home and from then on developed into a healthy robust girl mrs fournier attended the american le leion legion ion convention in paris this summer and then visited her old home and brought jeannette back with her during her absence for utah rene I 1 had been visiting his daddy s old home in in canon city colo and there mrs fournier picked him up and proceeded to salt lake with her two children who had known each other only by reports and incidentally jeanette spoke only french and rene only english but they are rapidly blending the two languages then when the trio arrived in salt lake thursday afternoon daddy was there to see his five year old daughter for the first time and the reunion was complete it was a happy family that left for home in richfield |