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Show I yr ! ANOTHER RED CROSS STORY ' One day recently an inquiry came to an official of Eeaver chapter of the j Red Cross: "Have you any extra big socks A young man has had his ankle an-kle broken. With his foot in a cast, he need3 something to keep the exposed ex-posed part of the foot warm." No socks were on hand, but there was yarn; andi volunteer workers always al-ways get busy. Phone connection was made at once with the inquiror, ! requesting an accurate measurement i of the broken foot, in order to make ja sock fit Next, a hasty conference With an experienced knitter; and immediately im-mediately upon receiving the meas- urements, the Red Crosser set about j figuring on the number of stitches land necessary variations from the j regular pattern. Detremining very readily that the ' top must be sufficiently wide to pass over the largest part of the cast, a few experiments developed the idea lot ribbing the entire sock within two ! rows of the heel. The rest proceeded by carefully measured but speedy steps, to completion. The sock was 'delivered to the inquiring young lady i who was ingenious enough to dye the sock, for greater utility and the man with the injured foot has since j been wearing the new creation, and, considerably to his own comfort, dis-I dis-I playing the really excellent result of the knitter's first cast sock. A sec-lond sec-lond one. "for a change," was a part of the plan. When discussing the circumstance with the Red Crosser. the young lady remarked. "I didn't know you die I things like this." The young lady's mother says they propose to "get ev- c :i with Eeaver chapter," by taking memberships during the coming roll icall in November. This incident of late occurrence l ter.os to show that the most insignificant insig-nificant performance brings Its appreciation, ap-preciation, and that intellectual peo-j peo-j pie never fail to respond when they understand even a few of the various workings of the American Red Cross. |