Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-07-28
SEWING FOR THE SOLDIERS,
Red Cross Ladies at Camp Sad.
Ter Please the Butte Mess
Troops.

"a Z VI iduleS
can be seen at Camp Sadler sewing for
the soldiers. They do not come down
IKE the giddy girls, who want to deprive
soldiers of their buttons: their mission is
10 sew buttons on and stitch up the rents
and gaps in Uncle Sans uniforms.
The homer a lady enters the Camp
with the Rec Cross button on her breast
she Is saluted and treated with the nj
most defence. They 60 into the Red
Cross tent and proceed at once to work
n inside five minutes the news spreads
around the All and the soldiers swarm
IN with their mending.
There are MINDLESS buttons to replace.
many gapeing rents ami plenty of tn )>e
queer little stripes that tell Of official
rank.
Ihe boys have more or less fun out of
the incidents in the Rec Cross tent.
The editor of the APPEAL went in there
the first day it opened and found his wife
and daughter hard at work mendino
soldiers clothes. He recalled in the
meantime that buttons were not sewed
on his clothes at homea and il seemed that
the time had arrived to get even.
Can o tell me Madam he remarked
addressing his wife why it is that Won
are dolng so much sewing here today.
when the buttons on my summer pants
have been off for three months?r
1t must be because You are not in the
army" was the reply and Private Fur
long (who used to be a comp. in the
APPEAL office after going into convul-
slons remarked, "B tier not get fresh
again with a Red Cross woman.n His
ADVICE seemed to have some good sense
IN II and we gave it considerable heed.
On Tuesday a married ladv belonoinu
to the Red Cross Society WAS sewinc
when a soldier came up with:
My pants need mending."
Take them off right away then, er-I
mean leave them here"
She blushed hard, but it was a slip of
the tongue. 1t was her son and she for
got for an instant that he was no longer a |
boy but had grown up to be a soldier and
was not living at home.
Please Miss can YOU let me have a
needle and thread?"
on. | can do the mending." was the
reply. "rhat't what We are here for"
but You see er, We see its-er-where
have to do it. I've only got one pair
The young lady handed him the needle
and thread Ill silence and he Slid out.
The Red Cross people are doing hard
work for the soldiers and they don't con-
llhe themselves to mending clothes.
lhey have raised money by various
means and spent it for shoes, socks and
nndercIothes. They have placed little
boxes in the stores in which people can
put nickelS, dimes and quarters. and
each week these boxes are cOllected.and
he amounts turned in. In a few DAVIS
hey will publish "A statement of what
hey have done.
Last evening they gave a little enter
"'hiiehI Tor the men in camp. The
roops We're GLAD OF anything to bresk
he grinding m%onotony of camp life.
They rendered the following program: t
Battle hymn of the Republic. the :
society.
"Tenting Tonight" Mrs. Geo. Me- /
Langhlin and chorus. I
Grafton, Miss Lucy Davis. I
"Marching Through Georgia" The So
iety.
Recitation, Miss Lottie Meder.
The Red, White and Blue" Mrs. ]. p. ;
'orreyson and chorus. t
Dixie Land" The Society. i.
Recitation, Letter From The Maine-
lrs. Abe Cohn.
Star %Spangled Banner VIII q. Mack.
y and chorus.
h JOHNNY Comes Marching Home ;,
GAIN" by the Society. y
soldiers Farewell" Quartettee. Mrs d
rail-, Miss Meder, Mrs. F~urlong. and
RS. Mclaughlin. d
me entire program was loudly cheered f.
ld when the patriotic ballads were sung
Y the Society the soldiers joined fun
rested and deep throated in the swell
g chorus four hundred strong. and the P
'lume of sound that foated no from Of
Re ranks had an indiscribable effect well .
a dawes In1rnnv p, J,.o. "