A chapter on the phenomenon of children "adopting" more unfortunate beings through newspaper campaigns, etc - like those elephants in Hansen's Animal Attractions, or Balto.
Possible foreign children they could exercise charity on:
Belgians during WWI - book about Hoover and Belgian relief? Janet says there is one.
Chinese, Indians during famines (see Davis)
Armenians during genocide??
Congolese during Leopold's reign
Japanese after 1923 earthquake - mentioned in Beverly Cleary's autobio
Read Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains, on British anti-slavery movements? Definitely look again in King Leopold's Ghost for mentions of anti-Belgian children's books.
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