Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1918 — Lafayette Home Shelters Orphans. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Home Shelters Orphans.

The old home of (general Lafayette, at Chavanlac, a town in the department of Haute-Loire, is being used as an American home for French war orphans. - The Lafayette fund, conducts the shelter. . A hundred children from the .devastated regions are at Chavanlac. A modern schoolhouse and a hospital have been built near the old chateau. The orphans learn English. * They are being brought up with the aim of sending .them 4 to America after the war for the completion of their professional or commercial education. They are learning American ways and ideas. In America, each child has a godfather who will take overUts education later. Thfe best care that American science can give afforded the children. The Lafayette fund, is a wealthy organization and Intends to greatly extend its work.