Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — WHAT CAN WE DO? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT CAN WE DO?

The following news items, sent out.! by the Red Cross publicity tiepart-; went, will ratify every member of the greatest of organizations -tn America: All male employees at the London receiving and distributing fteadquari tecs of the American Red Cross, are ’Ox-.tohlicrs discharged for In one month they packed 137j>»0 separate articles and shipped 309 kales of supplies to the fronts At the request, of officials of the air service the American Red Cross is providing special comforts for American flying men,oii’.er.sens. Uncle Sam wants his. sky sailors to have every attention. *' ~ifte fact that ijncle Salitf fe ilmut'’ to take Kaiser- Bill to the woodshed has not caused any .letup in Red .CrosS-flctfvlties. Red._Crmss_..worker&. won’t take a day off until Hie last American soldier has been landed on his own doorstep.— ——- Speaking about scraps of paper, the - American Red -Cross lias just handed the British Red Cross a check for $2,585.000. : Mourning brassards as a substitute for regular mourning for'relatives of men lost In the servlce have met with “the approva 1 iff the bervavedfamflies? -Red Cross divisions have asked headquarters for h total of 20,<KM* of the brassards. Parents and wblbws of the men get them free of charge apd otherTrelafives at cost. More than one thousand aged mid infirm Belgians from the front-line areas, many of wbpm were .under shellfire for months, are being cared for by the American Red-Cross, in a massive old -stone building-near Montreal!. Frtihce. The place was -formerly the boose of the t'nnhusian monks. Throe hundred Belgian children are now comfortably situated in a tenbarrack- colony established near I'lnirtreuse by the Atperlcan. Red Cross. Scores of the children were brought from districts that have been leveled by the enemy's guns. Santa Claus, acting as the agent of the American Red Cross, is going to

make a special trip overseas to liver Christmas parcels to those soldiers who have no _one here to remember them. Ait mid fence of French soldiers' who have lost arms or legs was recently entertained at a movie show given by the American Red Cross at Nantes, France. X film showing the way in which disabled soldiers havehocopie self-supporting was the feature of the progrifm. . A one-armed soldier pianist;' for whom a successful future Is predicted by the American Red Cross surgeons, is shortly'to .be discharged from an American Red Cross hospital in Lon- ! don, and will appear on the con cert ds Gwttym Jones, a Welsh private, who lost his arm at Ypres. A Belgian soldier.-vwho Evidently believes that two can starve ns cheaply as one, wrote recently to the Amer- ' lcnn Red Cross commlstjoher for Belgium, invoking matrimonial aid from the American -Red Cross, as follows; “I am on the point of getting married Hext month. I have no relatives tn come to my assistance; they are all In invaded Belgium,,. You would render me a great service in granting Cine-"a little •secour,’ for the only money I have is my pay which Is (55 . cents a week. With that amount it ’is very difficult to save money. My fiancee is a<„poor as 1 am. She Is a refugee at St. Brieuc.”

The Mantle Coat. The main le coat is the coat that has a separate piece fastened on the back in qupe effect. These capes are soiuet lines but loped, oti and sometimes are fa.-tened about halfway down - The sleeve. These coats always have sleeves. The wrap coat may have a doliban sleeve or a deep kimono sleeve. The sleeves of this type are always cut in one with the main part, of the garment. These coats usually have a he.lt across the front. Still another new coat is that one which has no belt at all. has sleeves cut In one with the garment and IS much wider across they hip section than at the feet.