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Show II PLEASURE, FOOD AND OAS MASKS mm v j Iw This is a big year for the small boy W who goes a-nuttlng. A few short years X ago he shouldered his basket or sack S and started for the forest with no other purpose In mind than pleasure. W Then came the war and the cry to k save food, so the small boy went to M tho forest resolved to bring home all M the nuts he could for tho sake of the m food they contained. m But now a need, more directly con- X cerned with life saving than th meat S from the nuts, confronts the small boys and girls o America. That need W is carbon for iho gas masks of our m soldiers who face tho deadly gas at-K at-K tacks of tho enemy. The shells of hickory nuts, -walnuts, and butternuts which grow so plentl-m plentl-m fully in many parts of the United M States make a very high quality car- bon for gas masks, according to tho government chemists who have been m searching for the very best material m to protect our soldiers at the front. No- other nuLs will do, excepting Brazil W nuts, which are imported. Seven pounds of shells will produce carbon enough for one mask. If your children live hear a wood, let them have at least one soldier's mask to their credit. Each year many bushels of nuts go to waste In the woods for lack of some one to gather them. This year when walnuts, hickory and butternuts" may serve a double patriotic purpose, none should bo left on the ground or trees, as long as there are children to gather them. Whole nuts can be sent in, but it is better to take out the meats, in order that valuable food may not be wasted. The pits from peaches, apricots, prunes, olives, dates, cherries and plums and the shells of Brazil nuts, walnuts and butternuts are the materials mate-rials which tho government chemists wish to use. Do not try to substitute other material which you think would be just as good. The Red Cross is the only agency which will ship your collection to headquarters. Take your gleanings to them. |