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Show Sacrifice Your Sweater for a Soldier sf I such a DOROTHY HA.D BEEN working all summer long at cSJfi moment: mo-ment: on the most stunning heavy wool sweater for herself. The odd moments were between hours and hours spent In knitting three khaki colored war sweaters for the Tied Cross. Her own sweater was smartly military In Its ollvo drab color and was painstakingly purled at waistline and cuff and Dorothy was putting in tho last stitches Just before she went to visit her second lieutenant cousin stationed at Bedlocs Island. It vas cold at Bedloc's Island; tho great calm figure towering with uplifted torch above the camp, seemed actually actual-ly to sway and shiver In tho bleak blasts that swept across tho water. And only one lucky chap of all the soldiers in camp owned a sweater! With nil the thousands of women knitting, knit-ting, knitting war sweaters, here were dozens of young men, sweatorless in one of tho coldest stations around New York. And that perfectly good olive drab yarn, Itself in a feminlno sweater for parade on the golf course, was waiting for the last stitches at home! Dorothy could hardly wait to get back to that slacker sweater. With eyes swimming In tears sho toro out the needles and began to rip off the stitches. And as sho ripped and ripped, she "rewound tho yarn until there was enough for a perfectly good war sweater. "Now shame," said Dorothy emphatically, em-phatically, "on any girl who has a new golf sweater thl3 autumn, or any old lady who has a new knitted shawl, or nilned. any baby who has a new knitted I states afghan!" -: J rofrultl Almost everywhere one turns wool jt ls to be had and If you cannot afford m to buy the yarn yet would bo perfect- I -,h(J Iy willing to do your bit with the knit- Men & ting needles, thero aro various places QT raJ where yarn may be obtained freo of y ' combat charge. And if you do not yet know irQC3 how to knit, you can learn In a few ' roafls minutes. Iet no woman sit with Idle nothinf hands whllo sweatorless soldiers aro f.j ruthlcs shivering In winter winds. ' ' |