The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-08
REPORTS ARE TO BE DELIVERED ON NEXT WEDNESDAY
Ladies of Charity Will Hear Interesting Synopsis
 of Rally
FRENCH CLUB WILL
 MEET NEXT WEEK
Tag Day for Fatherless Chil-
 dren of France Is Next Saturday

de Paul, are to hold their regular monthly meeting on Wednesday, Dec, 12, at the Nurses Home on Lindley street. The meeting will be called to order promptly at 8 o'clock, as there are reports and business of much importance to be brought to the attention of the members. Mrs. | W. B. Allen, president of the society, | accompanied Mrs. H. w. F1eck to Hartford on Thursday to attend the Woman's Rally of the State Council of Defense. Mrs. Allen will give a synopsis of the meeting aad tell of | the different aims the committee of Women's Activities of the State Coun- cil of Defense hopes to be able to &C., complish. She has brought hack | from this meeting some very interest ing facts that will hold the close at ] tention of the Ladies of Charity and spur them on to greater activities. The splendid work done by this so- ciety in the Food Conservation Cam paign is a fine guarantee of what this body of women will do to carry on the ideas of the Woman's Commit tee.
 The French Club of this city is to have it's December meeting on Thurs day afternoon, December 13, at 4 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Chas F. Wood on Washington avenue. Madame Sorieul is to make an inter- esting address and her subject will be "Litalie"
 At the meeting of the Bridgeport Committee of the Society of the Fath- erless Children of France held yes terday afternoon at the residence of Mrs William D. Bishop on CourtIand Hill, Mrs. William A. Grippin was elected chairman of this committee. Mrs. W. c. Bryant has been serving as temporary chairman since last spring, but the press of other duties | made 1t imperative that she resign | this office.
 It was decided to select Saturday December Is, as Tag Day. There are
 40 children on the Bridgeport list that have not been provided for and it l takes the sum of $37.50 to provide for
 each child for a year. There are at
 the present time 150,000 children in 1 France who are fatherless and un- provided for and these are all investi-
 gated bonaf1de cases. There is to be
 a general drive all over the country | in an endeavor to raise sufficient
 funds to care for these little folk and
 the Tag Day here is part of this drive. The Boy Scouts and a num-
 Der of the young women's organiza-
 tions in the city are to be asked to assist on Tag Day. On Christmas
 Eve, Marshal Joffre, who is the head
 of the society in France, and his as- sociates, are to have a meeting and
 it is the object of the committees in | this country to cable him as much money as possible at that time.
 sIn grateful recognition of pa triotic service,'' says each of the sev-
 era1 hundred certificates being sent
 from the headquarters of the Commit.
 tee of Food Supply and Conservation ' of the State Council of Defense 1T
 Hartford to the girls who have quail fled for highest honors in the Juniol , Food Army by canning or drying a least a hundred pounds of food dur ing the past season. These certifl cates are embossed with the state sea and signed by Governor Marcus H
 Holcomb.
 Another opportunity to win plac on the honor roll is 10 be given tn ] girls of the state. This is througl
 the home economies club that are be U ing formed in connection with tn Farm Bureau. Any girl may appl t for a place in one of these club through the Farm Bureau or by writ II ing direct to the Connecticut Agricul u tura1 College at Storrs Each gir
 that joins a club will get 12 lesson
 in cookery and housekeeping ,and
 she completes her course she will b ,. a member of the Junior Food Arm
 and will receive her certificate C '- honor and a membership button fror r the Committee of Food Supply an a Conservation.
 1T The girls who have received ce1 n tifcates to date, in Fairfield count!
 are:
 ,f Gladys Stannard, Wilton; Josephin n Webb. Shelton; Ella Allan, Fla. II Ridge, Ridgeheld; Gertrude Toole, 3 il Maple avenue, Stamford; Edith Biri g seye, Shelton; Monica Borglum, Si Le vermine, Norwalk; Helen M. Bolal r. West Lane, Ridgefeld; Esther Cal ,r penter, Stratford; Ruth Louise Crt ss foot, II Crescent Terrace, South No t. walk; Florence L. Frembes, Shelton z- Margaret Garmie, Danbury: Anr $, Gilbert, Peaceable street, Ridgefielt pr Charlotte J. Hartwig, Sandy Hool
 Louise Hartwig, Sandy Hook; Flo h. ence Hit, Nichols; Ida M. Hit, Mel ut ols; Mary A. Glynn, Shelton; Marga at ct Davis, Wilton; Viola Davis, Wilton 1g Peter Emke, Si1vermine, Norwall CT Edythe Brownson Bowles, Sheltol CT Vera Hitt Nichols; Matilda c. Jane III ky, South Salem, N. Y.; Martha Jone an Ridgefeld; Isabell Mullen, Ridgefiel in Margaret Mullen, Ridgef1eld; Glad lie G. ogden, Stamford; Sidney R. O rv den, Stamford; Marian s. Weed, Ne - Canaan; Louise Ida Sweet, II Pa re street Shelton; Margaret Radfor
 Noroton Hill, Stamford, and Mary
 Weed, Danbury.
 Miss Dorothy Larkin was we