Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — ELLEN EXPLAINS RED CROSS SEALS. [ARTICLE]

ELLEN EXPLAINS RED CROSS SEALS .

Ellen, who Is seven yean old and Uvea out in Kansas City, came hopiie from school the other day with a red, green and white “subscription card” the teacher had given her. Her mother had seen something about Red Cross Seals in the paper, bnt didn’t know just what it was all about “Oh,” said the seven-year-old proudly, “don’t you know? They use the money to take care of sick folks—sick folks that haven’t got any money to take care of ’emselves. The money they get from the Santy Claus seals goes to run a hospital for those folks. And they pay doctors and nurses to teach people how to get well and how not to get sick. Teacher told ns dll about It See, this paper tells.” Then Ellen’s mother read the folder that small daughter had brought home, telling how often tuberculosis can be prevented, and when she had finished she signed the card for a liberal number of seals. ’