Show Letters to Editor THE OLD siLV SILVER R THIMBLE Editor Telegram Do you know how to change an old silver sliver thimble into a hospital ambulance ambulance ambulance lance Long months ago when English Englishwomen Englishwomen women came to realize their might be In desperate need of hospital supplies and proper medical and nursIng nursIng nursing nurs nurs- ing care sold their jewels and turned the money to the Red Cross And poorer women who had no jewels what what could they sell At last one little homebody of a woman had an idea She could sell her silver thimble Every woman has hasa hasI a silver thimble And If all the women I in London London and and In all England gave England gave their silver slIver thimbles and had them melted they would produce a great quantity of silver And silver is money The pl plan n was instantly popular The middle class women of at England gathered gathered gath gath- gathered ered their silver sliver thimbles old cufflinks cufflinks cufflinks cuff cuff- links and bracelets bracelet and worn orn silver spoons and all their discarded treasures treasures treas treas- ures urea of precious metal and had them melted over into money In a single year rear there was collected a fund which purchased seven automobile ambulances ambulances ambulances lances five motor hospital boats and large sums for relief funds for Cor disabled dis di- soldiers The sum collected by these women who had nothing to give Ive but hut their silver sliver thimbles amounted to 7 Now the idea has to America The women of the Navy league in In Indianapolis In- In dl are aie planning a fair fall to raise money money for the on the United Unit Unit- ed ad States battleship Indiana They propose to ransack their ragbags and and garrets and no doubt they will also take up a collection of old Jewelry for forthe forthe forthe I the melting pot So if the Ladies' Ladies Aid society of the Baptist church or the Shakespeare club or the Thursday Knitting club cub Wishes to adopt a battleship or a regiment regi- regi ment or a machine gun company and see that the m members have as many of the comforts of home as permitted by military expediency the idea by which the necessary funds may be collected is hereby respectfully submitted I C C. C W W. R R. |