Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — Burlap Bag His Only Garment [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Burlap Bag His Only Garment

He Is only one of 250,000 helpless child victims bt Turkish cruelty and oppression In Western Asia. Clad just as he stands in the picture this forlorn little fellow, with hunger-stricken cheeks, hopeless mouth and frail, starved body, was found wandering in the streets of Igdlr, Armenia, by Dr. Milton 8. Littlefield of the Near East Relief. He was taken to a Near East Relief orphanage, where It was found, that his only earthly possession was the single garment in which he stood —a worn, patched blanket made from a burlap sack. ,“I saw this ragged little fellow on one of the busiest business streets of Erlvan, nqt far from the orphanage,” said Dr. Littlefield. “He was wandering aimlessly about and no one was paying the slightest attention to him. I did not pose him; the picture shows just the way he stood when I backed him up against a nearby wall.” . The photograph Is the basis of a striking poster now being distributed by Near East Relief. ,

POSTER BASED ON ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT ERIVAN, ARMENIA, BY OR. M. S. LITTLEFIELD.