Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1918 — AID IN CLOTH CONSERVATION [ARTICLE]

AID IN CLOTH CONSERVATION

Government Suggests Invoice on All Garments on Hand to Help Save Wool and Cotton. _____ z Now the attic has been declared a military asset and joins the pantry in extending the present store to its greatest possible usefulness. Remodeling, now almost a lost art In the home, has sprung to life everywhere to relieve the cloth situation, which, by another year, is bound to be felt. That’s why we are urged to use every garment until it wears out and then re-use the best parts of it. The woman who does this is doing a patriotic service -for her country when she happily and Intelligently makes every yard of go to its utter- ■ most We will have money enough to buy new materials, of course, but that, is not the question in hand. Our spinners and weavers are overseas, new bands must be trained before mills can run at full capacity; when we think of the army’s need for wool in clothing, and even in the propelling and explosive charges of big guns, we abhor the thought, of wasting one xecioua inch. Cotton cannot take the )laco of wool In the field of battle, but