The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-09-15


lagos of France was being showl
through by little boy who dangle'
between crutches, thanks to a Ger
man shell. He was dressed in Amer
lean clothes of which he was vastl,
proud. Madame" he said, "th'
cure used to tell us that everything
good came from le bon Dieu, who
lived yonder in that shrine. Blu
marame sees that the Boches have
destroyed Gods house, so that He
can no longer live there with com
tort. Now as madame has brought
me, from America, these books oi
great beauty, this worthy shirt, and
these incompatible trousers, may il
not be that God has gone to Ameri-
ca to take up his residence there "
In behalf of such children as these,
The Fatherless children of France
association has been organized with
Marshal Joffre at the head of the
French organization. The American
Branch is headed by Edward Shear
son of New York City, and the work
is carried on through local commit
tees. The plan of this organization
is to secure the adoption OF French
children by Americans. BY adoption
is not meant legal adoption, but
merely pledge to contribute SO a
month towards the maintenance OF
one of these little children in its
mothers hsomglsss.
There is no phase of war charity
more appealing than this. Child
hood demands happiness to attain
its full development, just as much
as the rose demands sunshine. But
the children OF France are born and
are reared in want and suffering.
Their sleep is broken by shells and
their days spent in long, agonizing
terror. They arc often born in damp
cellars or bomb proof shelter and
unfold their little lives amid condi-
tions that can not fail to dwarf them
mentally and physically. Except for
their mothers and those who are
huddled with them in refugee sheds,
all they know OF humanity is cruel
men in spiked helmets, with lips
desecratcd with curses and whose
every gesture is a blow Sometimes
these men would take their mothers
off in carts. although the mothers
would cry and plead to be left with
their children. They, too held out
their arms TO their mothers and
begged them to come back, for could
not mothers always keep their chill
dren safe from all harm? But the
big, loud men laughed and jeercd or
struck them with the toe OF their
heavy boots. and the little children,
like leaves in storm, drifted out
upon a strange void where dangers
lurked in the smoke filled streets and
hunger and fear were their daily at
tendants. The cure would gather
them together, Ike little lambs, and
with tears in his eyes would tell
them OF a God Of love to whom they
must pray; but a little boy and ,
little girl with so much misery about
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