Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — Knitting in Sentiment. [ARTICLE]

Knitting in Sentiment.

How much knitting has been going on in this town the past few months! In nearly every household there has been knitting In progress—knitting sweaters, wristlets, abdominal bands, socks and all things that the vicissitudes of a soldier might desire. But it has been one vision of gray, betokening the gray of life, a vision of serene sadness. It should not be so. There should be a little color in the knitting. The Red Cross advises it. We copy from an exchange: “If you are knitting for soldiers, put a little of red in them —it’s the little touch of sentiment that keeps a man cheered up. In the trenehes there is a pet superstition that a soldier who has a red stripe in his socks will never be hit by bullets. Also it is easier for a soldier to keep his socks In pairs if they are marked with a bit of color near the top.” That is good doctrine. Any color so it is red will do, is an old doctrine that will fit in happily with the soldier knitting. Put a little sentiment in it, sisters. —Columbus (O.) State Journal.