The Bath American. Le Bain American is the fancy label applied to an ordinary scrubbing and shower by French war orphans who have been initiated into the mysteries of hygiene by the Junior Red Cross of America welfare program. These two pictures show a group of them in Paris on their way back to homes in the devastated regions from a health pilgrimage to the south of France afforded them by funds of American school children. They left their miserable surroundings in mid winter and lived during the past few months under the blue sky of the south, out of doors most of the time and with good food and the care of kindly peasant women. They were underfed, nervous wrecks on the fringes of tuberculosis and bronchial disease when they left. When they return now to their mothers, worn and weary with the drudgery of hard work that the war has brought them, they bring a breath of healthy happiness and the sunshine of renewed vitality to brighten the sordid homes in which they must live for the present