The Prescott daily news., 1917-12-20
RED GROSS SAVES LIVES STARVING BABIES
Hundreds of Children Gathered
 Together and For First Time Since Beginning of War Are Given Proper Food, Clothing.
(By C. C. Lyon)

worth while for France in this war?
 Then interest yourself in some poor, sick, homeless French baby.
 Get in touch with your American Red Cross and tell them you want to sew for and help dress an unfortunate mite whose father has been killed in the trenches and whose mother daily struggles against overwhelming odds to keep body and soul together.
 There are thousands of such chil- dren in the war zone.
 Near Toul, only few miles behind the French front, hundreds of chil- dren, ranging in age from six months up to II years, have been gathered to- gether in a Red Cross institution and for the first time since the beginning of the war they are receiving proper food, housing, clothing, medical at tentiOn and schooling.
 Dr. J. P. Sedgwick of Minneapolis, famous specialist in children's dis eases, was sent into the war zone by the Red Cross to see what should be done
 He gathered around him a staff of specialists, among whom are Dr. J. I. Durand of Seattle, Wash. Dr. N. o. Pearce of Minneapolis, Dr. Alice Brown of Winnetka, H., Madame Delebecque of Chicago, and Miss Bessie Spanner of Cleveland.
 We literally pulled these poor children out of the dark, damp, un- clean caves and cellars constantly under bombardment by German guns and airplanes," said Dr. Sedgwick.
 Ut is we'll worth all the money and effort we are putting into the enter prise to see the little things blossom and improve under proper care"
 There's tiny Julia for example.
 The day Julia was born, IS months ago, her father was fighting in the first line trenches not 20 miles from his hoem village.
 A French army doctor ushered Julia into the world in bombproof dug out constructed in the yard behind the shattered walls of the family home.
 That same night the mother learned that her husband was dead.
 For nearly 15 months the mother and baby eeked out a miserable exist ence in their cave-home, ill nourishod. with hardly enough clothing to cover them. terrified night and day by the German shells.
 Then, one day, the Americans came along and persuaded the mother that Julia would be better off in the children's refuge station behind the lines.
 Today, little Julia is getting fat and rosy. She no longer cries from fright at sudden noises.
 "I gave Julia her first bath here" said Miss Bessie Spanner of Clcvc- land. 1t was the first she had had in months"
 School instructions begins for the tots as soon as they are two years old
 The other day mother from shell-swept village brought her two year-old baby to the station.
 "I can't keep her at home with me any longer" she said. "I have to run to the cave so often that I'm ex- hausted from carrying her"
 Another mother, always comes at night.
 The German sharpshooters try to pot me every time 1 stick my head out of doors I have to dig my potatoes at night and wear gas mask while work"
 IL is the children of such mothers who comprise the population of the refugee station. It caring for them the Red Cross is doing a noble work, which should be encouraged by all American women at home Instead of one such station there is need for scores
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