Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1918 — Compare Your Baby’s First Four Years With This [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Compare Your Baby’s First Four Years With This

fa 1913 uttle Marie was born tn a village not far from Mezieres, tr. the Ardennes. In 1914 Marie’s father, called to the colon, fell at the Marne. - And Maria and her mother stayed in the village, which was now tn the Germans' hands. In 1915 a poster was pasted up on the door of the village church, and that night Marie’s mother vanished, dlong with a ecore or more of other women. In 1916 Marie was still living tn that village—existing through the charity of the few elderly folk the Germans permitted to stay. In 1917 Marie, with all the children under fourteen years and all the old people left alive tn the village, was bundled into a crowded car and shipped Into Germany, round through Switzerland and thence into France, arriving at Evian. She was underfed, of course, emaciated, sickly, dirty, too lightly dressed for the time of year. And she came Inte Evian with not a relative, not a friend left in all France to take care of her. Who took her! Your Red Gross! Over there in Evian your Red Cross took charge of her, cared for her in the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, clothod her, fed hor, built up her strength, taught her to play—and then helped the French authorities find her a HOME. Multiply Mario by 500 and you will have some idea of just one day’s work your Red Cross does at Evian. It is only one of the Rod Cross activities in France, to be sure—but for just that ono alone can you help being proud of It? Can you help being glad you are a member of It, supporting its great wort of humanity? Can yen help wanting It to go on helping the Martes and the “grand-daddies’’ that come to at Evian?