Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1915 — Real Daughter of the Regiment. [ARTICLE]

Real Daughter of the Regiment.

“Our regiment has adopted a two-year-old Turkish girl baby,” writes a Cossack who is serving with the Russian advance into the Turkish sus. He explains: "During our forward movement last week one of our men found in a farm house this baby, which had been abandoned by her fleeing parents. The starving little creature was cleaned, clothed and fed, and then taken to the staff quarters. In the Greek church of the village of Bar dus the foundling was christened according to the rites of the Orthodox church, the commander of the regiment acting as godfather and Princess Gelovanna, a Red Cross nurse and wife of a member of the dorna, as godmother. The child was named Alexandra Donakaia, after the name of the regiment. The officers and men of the regiment subscribed monthly amounts sufficient to pay for rearing and edu eating their regimental daughter.”