Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-06
THEY KNIT SUNDAYS
STAND OF OAR. REGENT
Mrs. Arthur Lee Bosley Will Go
Further And Urge Work Be
Done In Church.
PURITANISM, SAYS ANOTHER
Mrs. Charles E. Parr Thinks lmpera-
tive Need Justifiss Work-Mrs
T. C. Boggs Agrees.

T. G. Boggs Agrees.
Il knit on Sunday. my daughters
knit on Sunday and next Tuesday.
when the State Board of the Daugh-
tiers of the American revolution holds
its first meeting for the fall, | shall
urge them not only TO knit at home on
Sundays. but to seek the permission
of their pastors, rectors and priests
to allow them to bring their knitting
TO church"
This unequivocal stand on the sun
day knitting question was taken We'd
nesday morning by Mrs. Arthur Lee
Bosley. State Regent of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Bosley, of course, limits her
Sunday knitting to knitting for the
soldiers and sailors.
why should we fold our hands in
pious idleness while our men are
freezing in the trenches and training
camps said Mrs Bosley Women
might just as well be knitting as they
sit in the churches on Sundays as ex-
amining their neighbor's clothes or
falling asleep Our God and our
country are the things we should
give our allegiance to, then why not
give it to both by serving our coun-
try and worshipping our God at the
same time? 1t is not a question OF
Shall we knit on Sunday" 1t is an
indisputable fact that we must knit
on Sunday. 1t is our patriotic duty
When Idleness Aids Foe.
Il have always been very strict in
my observance of Sunday, but | do
not consider that | am straying from
my usual rules by performing this
duty. Letters from France speak OF
a crying need for knitted garments to
protect our men from actual suffer-
ing. Shall we bubble about rights
and wrongs when every idle moment
is playing into our enemies hands?"
Mrs Bosley is not the only stancn
supported of Sunday knitting for sol
diers and sailors A canvass of the
Red Cross and Navy League workers
indicates that the click of knitting
needles on Sunday is as usual in hum
dreds of homes in the city as the
smell Of chicken.
Mrs. Charles E. Parr, chairman Of
the Red Cross and Navy League Cir
Gle of the Baltimore Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
is emphatic in her approval of Sun
day knitting, saying that both she and
her daughters are devoting much time
on Sundays as well as other days to
their military knitting.
Calls 1t Act OF Puritanism.
at is an act of Puritanism to at
tempt to stop Sunday knitting" said
Mrs. Parr. Charity and patriotism
should be as alive on Sundays as on
any other day. All letters from
France speak of the intense bitter
ness of cold The need for these
knitted articles is imperative. Every
effort should be made and every sec
ond possible used to hasten our work
for the sake of the soldiers"
Another supporter of Sunday knit
ting, although not quite so emphatic
one, is Mrs. John Girdwood, chair
man of the Red Cross section of the
ATuuuell CIuD.
Il was brought up in an old-fash-
toned school and must confess that |
have never knitted on Sunday" said
Mrs. Girdwood But if the govern
ment needs the work / certainly can
see no wrongdoing in using spare
time on Sundays for this patriotic
service. | know many women who
are knitting on Sundays"
Mrs. Thomas G. Boggs, chairman of
the Red Cross section of the Equal
Suffrage League, believes that Sun
day knitting is sometimes absolutely
necessary.
Pastor Approves Sunday Knitting.
Ecclesiastical approval of knitting
on Sunday was given by the Rev. r.
j. Wyckoff, pastor of Madison Avenue
Methodist Church
When Christ walked through the
cornfield and was hungry the Bible
tells us that he cut Himself a few
ears of corn. According to the law
of the church at that time He was
doing wrong, but the emergency made
it right. 1t is the same way with knit
ting on Sunday If our boys are cold
and need the sweaters, then knitting
becomes a duty.
Last Sunday ] went to see a mem
Der of my congregation | found her
knitting I work six days in the week
and many evenings said this young
woman, / want to do something for
the soldiers and Sunday is the only
day l have. Do you think l am doing
wrong?
II answered, Knit Baltimore