Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — Slippers Made From Hats. [ARTICLE]

Slippers Made From Hats.

Now it happened, over there, that, though army hats were plentiful enough, hospital bedroom slippers were very, very scarce. It took a long leap of salvage Ingenuity to take apparel from the head of a man and put It on his feet But that Is what the army did. With dies it cut the brims of the old army hat which was then usually on the road to ruin, into shape of the human foot stitched two layers together, stitched them back and forth, aa is done with Japanese slippers, turned the fragments Into heels, turned the crown Into tips, nsed bits of uniform for the uppers and sent off to the Bed Cross a prodigious supply of bedroom slippers.—Donald Wilhelm in Harper’s Magazine.