Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1916 — WOULD ADOPT WAR ORPHAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOULD ADOPT WAR ORPHAN

Eight-year-old Lillian Davis Emerson of New York has taken the first step toward the adoption of one of the 150,000 children of French soldiers left fatherless through the war. The little girl was assured that she might undertake the support of a little baby and she seemed happy. The Orphelinat des Armees, called in this country the Fatherless Children of France, is an organization sponsored by President Poincare and other French notables, which cares for the children of France whose fathers have been killed. For its work, the people of America, especially the children, are asked to adopt an orphan to whom they shall contribute ten cents a day --$36.50 a year.