Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — NAVY LEAGUE ASKS “HUSSIFS” [ARTICLE]

NAVY LEAGUE ASKS “HUSSIFS”

Women of the Country Requested to Furnish 6,500 Sewing Kits for Sailors. Washington.—The Navy league has issued an appeal to women of the country to make 6.500 “hussifs” for the marines training for . France. They may be turned in to local sections of the Navy league. “Hussifs” in the marine’s way of saying “housewives.” It means a sewing kit. The sewing kit wanted by the Navy league is made of cotton khaki, sewed with red thread —the Marine corps uniform colors. The kit is 13 inches long and 7% inches wide. It has five pockets, 3% inches deep by 2% inches wide. A top flap folds over the pockets and covers the contents of the kit. A red tape 20 inches long, sewed on the back of the center pocket, ties the kit. A pair of blunt-pointed scissors 4 inches long. No. 1 needles, a thimble, an assortment of safety pins, cards holding heavy black and white thread and two safety pins strung with khaki buttons comprise the contents of the kit.