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Show ROMANCE GONE Efciency Kills Sentiment as Machine Makes Sacks in 25 Minntes. By RUTH DUNBAR. "How snowy white your fingers look against the scarlet wool!" was the favorite speech of grandfather When he was paying suit to grandmother, who, If history Is correct, never allowed al-lowed little things like love and courtship court-ship to distract her mind ono minute from her knitting.' The modern young man Is robbed of any opportunity to make these pretty speeches, for the woo) Is no longer scarlet but khnkl. Worse yet, the maiden sits before a cold, steel ma-clilno ma-clilno nnd grinds off socks in as many minutes as It takes hours to knit them. This is what efficiency does to romance. ro-mance. In the various Red Cross workrooms of the New York County Chapter there are nearly seventy-live sock machines. Bight of these nre In tho model work-' room at 20 EnstThlrty-clghth street and others that have been ordered are held up by traffic conditions. Here Instructors Instruc-tors teach the use of the machine to Red Cross workers. A complete pair of seeks can be made on the machine in 25 minutes. The machine looks like a cross between fishing tacklo and a pile driver. The worker threads it through the arm and carrier on to the threader. The body of the machine Is a circle of needles bent at the ends like crochet books. Sweaters also are made on the sock machine, the strips sewed together and the ribbing at top and bottom knitted on by hand. ., Besides the machines in the Red Cross workrooms there ace many owned by private Individuals or groups who work at home and donate the results re-sults to the Red Cross.; In a family hotel, for Instance, four of five women ean club together and buy a machlae. |