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Show AT OUR HOUSE I Eyes O'Blue and Touslehead Learn About the Red Cross ' By JUDpMtJRTIMER LEWIS . We have talked It over at our house. Talked it over as we have never talked It over before. We did not want Eyes O'Ulue to know about It, nor did we want to lay any part of the world's heavy burden upon the henrt f Toiil-head. Toiil-head. We have taught them that the world is a good and a beautiful piece, tut last night, gathered beneath the light in the humble little parlor at our bouse, we talked It over between us. " Eyes O'Blue and Touslehend were told " that, while the world Is good, It Is not all good; that there are men who have started out to enslave the world and who In the furtherance of that auihl-' auihl-' tlon have done awful things. Gradually as the tale was told they drew nearer until we sat with our , arms about them. We told them of hands backed from baby wrists, of death rained from the sky upou helpless help-less little ones, of murder rising from , ,j the sea's green deeps to feed upon " helpless mothers and tables. And then we told them how these apletidld soldier boys we see every day are going to the far front to flKht and. If need be, die to keep this hor-, hor-, ror from our iHiid. We told them of burns and wounds and suffering. And then we told them of the Ited Cross. 1 We had a Dumber of Ited Crosses In our windows, but they had not known. We told them of the bandages and supplies needed to allay suffering. We told them of the noble women who are giving their lives to the binding up of hurts of the boys In khaki. We told them of the great need of money with which to carry on the work of mercy. Then Eyes O'Blue Id a voice which choked with pity for the distressed spoke of her savings, and Touslehead clapped ber hands at the thought. This morning I went to the bank and withdrew their ssvlngs. $03.29. and they are to be put to work to a better bet-ter work than they have been doing. At our house for the duration of the war we expect to "keep the days," we expect to wear cobbled shoes and patched clothing, and If we ever hesitate hesi-tate In our sacrifice 1 shall see the faces of Eyes O'Blue and Touslehead us, with tears on their cheeks, they smiled at the thought of the help they might be to the Red Cross. ' Are you helping us to carry the Red Cross 1 |
