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They never lose their goat. Mary's little lamb might have been running on three legs in an attempt to keep up with this Italian goat, the Mascot of the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage in Collestrada. Not only does he try to follow one child about, but several hundred pupils in the Agricultural Colony. As they work in the gardens and fields, tend the chickens, ducks and rabbits., his ever watchful eye is on them. Under the instruction of an old woman, whose life has been spent in the vineyards, these Perugian girls are learning the time old methods of training the tender grapevines over the trellises. It is their duty to watch over them from the first palnting until the wine is made

They never lose their goat. Mary's little lamb might have been running...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C, Jr. Red Cross Group title: Jr. Red Cross, Italy... More

Cows of History. Extraordinarily beautiful and picturesque are the long-horned, snow white cows of the Tuscan valleys in Italy. Their horns measure about twenty inches across and their silky tails often sweep the ground. Since the war they are becoming very scarce owing to lack of fodder, and land holders are haunted by mythological tales of the Middle Ages when they disappeared altogether. Invaders from the North brought this breed of cattle into Italy and they were so admired by the early Romans that they each year offered up the whitest and most beautiful one as a sacrifice, gilding its horns and garlanding them with rare flowers. The Italian government presented this pair to the Agricultural Colony of the Junior Red Cross of America orphanage and vocational school where several hundred war orphans are learning scientific farming and undergoing training for their future independence

Cows of History. Extraordinarily beautiful and picturesque are the lon...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: Jr. Red Cross, T.T. & C., Southwest Div. Group title: Jr.... More

Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricultural School in Collestrada, Italy, soap making is in the "curriculum." Boys and girls war-worn and alone in the world are being trained in this school for occupations that will fit them for Italy's skilled workers of the future. Farming, polutry and cattle raising, soil treatment are the main studies, branching off into domestic science, cheese-making and milking for the more delicate girls

Soap not soup. At the Junior Red Cross of America Orphanage and Agricu...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Jr. Red Cross, June 21/20. Group title: Jr. Red... More

Orphans with Startling 'Futurests' Tendencies. 'Joka' one of the lost children in the Junior Red Cross of America orphanage in Podgoritza, Montenegro, let his playful instincts run riot when he stuck his hands in a can of blue paint and decorated the pet white rabbit of the School until it looked like a living piece of rultra futurism of one of the best Schools. Now he is doing penance and watching the good children at play in the courtyard below, dreaming perhaps of a world of blue rabbits and purple cats

Orphans with Startling 'Futurests' Tendencies. 'Joka' one of the lost ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Junior Red Cross. Group title: Children. Montenegro. Gift; Am... More