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tree planting along the Lincoln Highway, twelve miles 

 each side of York, Pennsylvania. Mrs. D. P. Montague 

 and Miss Mollie E. C. Montague have completed plans 

 for tree planting along the Dixie Highway out of Chat- 

 tanooga. At Brooklyn, New York, plans have been put 

 forward for a memorial highway as part of a great civic 

 plan that will mean the making over of much of the 

 great city. Anna T. Graham, Home Service Secretary 

 of the Red Cross at Milton, Florida, reports the planting 

 of twenty memorial trees and in the dedication the Fed- 

 eration of Women's Clubs will take part. At Appleton, 

 Wisconsin, the High School has planted six memorial 

 trees, under the direction of Paul G. W. Keller, the 

 principal. 



These are but a few of the varied organizations that 

 have turned to memorial tree planting. Has your town 

 a plan ? Is there an opportunity for a memorial highway 

 or a memorial park? What about a "Road of Remem- 

 brance" to the next town? Make tree planting by the 

 citizens a part of any memorial plans. Give your 

 memorial the proper setting of memorial trees. Give the 

 citizens something to do besides pay the bill. Let him 

 have a part in the work and the result will be better 

 citizenship and he and his children will hold to that com- 

 munity just as does the tree they plant. 



THE ADOPTED SON OF THE TWENTIETH 

 ENGINEERS (FOREST) 



TT is not generally known that our now famous regi- 

 ment of forest engineers adopted one of the fatherless 

 children of France, but this is a fact and his photo- 

 graph is here shown. He was from a gypsy family, says 

 the Rev. Howard Y. Williams, Chaplain of the Regi- 

 ment, in reporting the matter to the American Forestry 

 Association, and had never been in a home up to the 

 time he was adopted. He had never walked up-stairs, 

 and was really frightened by the first experience. Now he 

 is well clothed and cared for, going to school every day 

 and twice a week to church to learn the catechism. Both 

 his schoolmaster and the local priest give very favorable 

 reports of his progress. The following letter from Miss 

 Marie Faguet, daughter of the Supreme Court Judge of 

 the Department, is interesting. Miss Faguet is looking 

 after the orphans and fatherless children in her father's 

 Department, being a representative of the Society for 

 Fatherless French Children. Anyone interested in the 

 two other cases she mentions may correspond directly 

 with her at 14 Rue de la Grandiere, Tours, France, as 

 she reads and writes English, or with the editor of 

 this magazine. 



Tours, France, December 3, 1919. 

 My dear Chaplain: 



Some days before my departure from the country to 

 Tours, I took the picture of Jean Doer, which I send you in 

 this letter so you can know this little boy, to whom you are 

 so good and so kind. I regret very much that you had not 

 met Jean betore your departure to America. Very often I 

 speak about you to Jean, who would be so glad to know you. 

 Will you come soon to France/ Every day Jean Doer goes 



to school, and twice a week to church to learn the catechism. 

 The schoolmaster and the priest say to me that Jean is a 

 very wise and intelligent boy. 



Always I take care of the young orphans of Argy. Many 

 are adopted by the Americans. But there are two who 

 are very poor; a little girl of two years old, Emiliene 

 Cihault, and a boy of six, whose name is Ernest Deloleuf. 

 Do you know some American people who would like to adopt 

 these two children ? The mothers are working very hard 

 and they are very honest families. 



My sister and brothers join me in kindest remembrance. 



Marie Faguet. 



By adoption, Miss Faguet does not mean legal adoption, 



but simply the willingness to take an interest in the child 



JEAN DOER THE ADOPTED SON OF THE TWENTIETH ENGI- 

 NEERS (FORESTRY) 



through yearly subscription and such letters as one may 

 desire to write. Fifty dollars a year is all that is needed 

 for a child like either one of these two, who is living at 

 home with the mother, and the subscription may be for 

 one year or longer. 



THE POPLARS 



Now with the breath of coming rain 

 The poplars sway in troubled row, 

 Like old wives, rocking to and fro 

 In pain ; 



They shake their heads in shocked surprise 

 And whisper underneath their breath, 

 Like mourners in a house of death ; 

 Then lift their aprons to their eyes 

 Again. 



Nellie Burget Miller. 



