One dollar from you will for a week keep a woman or child alive.
"The story is that one man said, 'In this war the women and children suffer most.

I'm awfully sorry for them!' and the other man said, 'Yes I'm five dollars sorry.

How sorry are you ?' "If ever you intend paying that debt you owe to France do not wait until the war is ended.

Now, while you still owe it, do not again impose yourself upon her hospitality, her courtesy, her friendship.
"But, pay the debt now.
"And then, when next in Paris you sit at your favorite table and your favorite waiter hands you the menu, will you not the more enjoy your dinner if you know that while he was fighting on the Aisne, it was your privilege to help a little in keeping his wife and child alive." The winter of 1914-15 Richard and his wife spent in New York, and on January 4, 1915, their baby, Hope, was born.

No event in my brother's life had ever brought him such infinite happiness, and during the short fifteen months that remained to him she was seldom, if ever, from his thoughts, and no father ever planned more carefully for a child's future than Richard did for his little daughter.
On April 11 my brother and his wife took Hope to Crossroads for the first time.