Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-23 | Page 12 | Lad Tosses Marbles Aside Takes up Knitting Needles

Lad Lad T Tosses Marbles Aside iF 4 I 1 k 1 i Takes Up Knitting Needles NITTING G ha has a R JL 1 ersal appeal which has hns placed place It In the class with the greatest of or In Indoor sports Men women and children children- professional and business busi busi- ness society matron matrons boys bos and girls all nIl are arc bound to together by 11 that international brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood of oC purl two io and knit one So says sas the k knitter n i t t c r. r Donald Irvine 13 years cars old lays las claim to the tho premier knitting honors of ot the Salt Lake Lako I Juvenile male frater frater- nit Previous to hl his advent ad Into this art or sport as as' as ashe he calls It he lie was a marble shark Thought Though he still Indulges occasionally In pinkey pin key ker Boston and fats Cats most of his spare time Is spent with the clicking clicking- needles Like Little Do Boy Blues Blue's soldiers h his Is taws taw and lie In their bag hag awaiting his re return return re- re turn lIe He has already turned in one CIne s sweater l to the local 1011 chapter of the Tied ROd Cross and Is now work work- workIng working Ing on his hie second lie resides with his parents parents par par- Mr r and Mrs DonI Donald Don Don- ald I Irvine hiD Lo Logan an r 4 C 44 4 4 L 1 p Donald Ir Irvine Ine IS old fi t play piny hut but I I t avenue u A student In the training school at atthe atthe the University of or Utah his attention was first directed to knitting b by four a of the members of ot the class who had taken up the work This was two months ago ngo Ills his mother Initiated him Into the gentle mn mysteries of or holding the tho needles and his first sweater sweat r was completed two weeks ago His second second sect sec sec- ond sweater Is now nearly completed non new he Knit His lIis work has hils attracted the attention of or the officials at Amelia Palace who are loud In their praise of oC his work VI I I like It fine tine ho he said with a a. smile somewhat bashfully There Is nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing sissified about it even though It ItIs itis Is Is In a wa way sewing I like to play marbles but 1 knit more now that L have got sot onto the way to hold hol the needles