Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1918 — GIVES HAIR FOR COUNTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIVES HAIR FOR COUNTRY

Samson to a woman, cut off his hair, and lost, literally, the sinews of war. Now cometh a modern woman, harking to the call of Uncle Sam’s sons, and cutteth off her hair to provide said sinews. History simply sets new music to old words or vice versa. The photograph shows Florence Mansfield? Boston’s patriotic daughter, ready to snip off her lovely hair to provide material for rope to be used in the making of a submarine tiller.* Her patriotic impulse was original, springing from the need of rope in the navy as outlined to her by friends in the United States Marine corps.« She has very long tresses, and she can amply spare some. She believes every girl in the country ought to sacrifice a lock of hair. She believes there is another use for hair more important than wearing it herself —that is for one of our fighting men to wear it, in a wristband or ring. Then, when our boys get real lonesome “over there” all they have to do is to take one long, lingering look at that strand of hair, and, as they gaze, the winsome face of the girl back home will rise before them, and all will be right again! Now, how about it girls? Who will volunteer for such a worthy cause?