Show ANOTHER RED CROSS STORY one lay day recently an inquiry came to an off iclal of beaver chapter of tho the red cross have you any batra big socks A young man has had his ats ankle broken with hit his toot foot in a cast he ha needs something to keep the exposed part of the toot foot warm no socks were on hand but there was yarn andi and volunteer workers always get busy phone connection connect ioli was was made at once with tho inquirer reque ting an accurate measurement of the broken toot foot in order to make a sock fit next a hasty conference with an experienced knitter and immediately med lately upon receiving the measurements ure ments tile the red grosser crosser set about figuring on the number of stitches and necessary variations from the regular pattern Detro mining very readily that the top must be sufficiently wide to pass over tho largest part of the cast a few experiments developed the idea of ribbing the entire sock within two rows of tho the heel tho the rest proceeded i by carefully measured but speedy steps to completion the sock was wad delivered to the inquiring young lady who wasi was ingenious enough to dyo dye the sock tor for greater utility aud and the man with the injured f toot oot has sinco been wearing tho the new creation and I 1 considerably bably to his own comfort displaying the really excellent result of the knitters first cast sock A pee cec ond end one tor a change was waa a part of the plan when discussing tho the circumstance with the red grosser crosser the young lady remarked 1 I know you die dic things like this the young ladys ladya mother says they propose to get oven even with beaver chapter by taking memberships during the coming roll call in november this 1 incident i of lato late occurrence tends to show that the most insignificant niti ant cant performance brings its appreciation pre clation and that intellectual people never fall to respond when they understand even a few of the various workings of the american red cross |