The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-10-12

OF the pleasure OF helping. Mrs. Z. c.
Sturdivant OF Brownsville has been ap-
cash. Even that need not deprive US
pointed to ask the people of this coun-
~ to help in any way they can. She,
with her assistants, has been planning
ways and means. Now the plans
which we will give here are for all
the county's population to consider. If
you can do so, call her up and write
her that you viii support one French
orphan for one year. You can arrange
with her for monthly payments, or you
may agree to pay just what sum you
wish to add to the fund, even though
you can't take the entire support of a
child. But if you can't do either, there
are still other ways of helping. Please
read carefully the following plans:
Plan No. 1.-Realizing that every
woman in the country has been ener-
getic in canning fruit and vegetables,
and making jelly and preserves for her
own little children we confidently ask
each woman to share with these French
children by giving at least one good
can to be sold for this cause! None of
you would refuse to give something to
eat to a hungry child begging at your
door. Please give them this much
from your full larder! Reds grocery
will take care of this for US, and we
will find a market for anything
sent in.
Plan No. 2. Treasure and Trinket
Fund.-We realize that in so cultured
and wealthy a county as Haywood,
there must be many a treasure and
trinket laid away in trunks, which the
owners do not now use. Many of
them are kept for memory's sake.
are laid away with the hope that they
may come back into style. Many peo-
pile have much more jewelry or silver
ware than they really care to use. The
plan W. have in regard to such things
is not a new one. In England the wo-
men have had a "Silver Thimble Fund.-
and thousands of thimbles have been
gladly given to be melted up and
turned into funds to help their men at
the front. Another society is using
the trinket idea, asking for gold and
silver articles to melt and thus pro-
cure money for air ships. So we plan
to use it for the orphan fund. What
a glorious use to make of these old
keepsakes! How fitting to let the low
ed one now dead, continue to live and
work, by giving that keepsake to keep
alive a young French boy orgirl! Think
it over. You have something you can
give-no matter what it $50 it is of
gold or silver. Send it to Mr.. Peck,
the jeweler, who has given a place in
his window to keep such gifts in. A
card above will announce that these ar
ticles were given for the French Or
phan Fund. Everything given will be
tested, and if found to be worth it,
will be sent to a reliable firm to be
melted and sold, and the proceeds will
be applied to this fund. There is no
time to spare! Winter is coming on
and little French children need warm
clothes and food just as much as our
own.
One thing of mole or less value now
as a curio, is old Confederate money.
Some of the bills are worthless, but
others are valuable. Mrs. E. G. Stur-
diyant has a catalogue showing the
worth of the different bills. Could
you honor the Confederate cause more
than by letting those old bills be sold
to protect the lives of little children?
Take hold somewhere, everybody, and
let's do our part for those children this
winter. Money, or canned goods, or
treasures and trinkets!
Please help! Right away!
Mrs. C. A. WATERFIELD.