Belgian orphans who fled before the enemy in 1914 and were wanderers and suffered from cold, hunger and fatigue until May 1915, when they were taken under the care of the Comite Franco-Americian pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere. They are now in Versailles under the special protection of the Comtesse Pierre de Viel-Castel and Mrs. Walter Gay. As a result of their hardships one of the sisters and one of the children died before reaching Paris. Two other children were left behind in a hospital in the North and a third child died two days after her arrival in Paris of tubercular meningitis. Little Bertha, the shortest girl in the front row, and her two sisters standing back of her at her left, lost both father and mother by the same obus