Putnam patriot., 1918-03-01
RED CROSS NOTES

them pursuing their patriotic activi-
ties in the Red Cross window this
week. Mrs. Delight has fitted out the
lower floor of her beautiful home
with brand new linoleum. tables.
chairs, and a new sewing machine,
and has given the Red Cross the use
of the two rooms for making Surgical!
Dressings.
She herself has Furnishing war
garden near the house, where, with
the help of Junior Red Cross mem
Der to do the heavy lifting, she has
raised some Ponderosa tomatoes, ear
ly cabbage and Big Boston lettuce
Captain Delight is the inventor Of
a non-sinkable protected cruiser, and
a Hoa-eapsizable biplane, and can be
seen in his aviation field. energetical-
" training an amatur pilot The pilot
/ is dressed, as lie should be. in leather
made from a discarded kid glove
As tHe cares in the window of the
house Indicate. tie entire family, in
Guiding the baby, the dog, the cook,
an aunt, and an uncle belong to the
Red Cross. and Mrs DELIGHT is, of
course, a member of the United States
Food Administration Mr.. Delight
will gladly confer with anyone desir-
Gus of helping the Red Cross, and give
any suggestions he can for the ad-
vancement of his worthy cause.
1t is really true that hundreds of
Refugee babies are actually in want
of clothes. Perhaps you are thinking
that others have promptly eontribut-
ed all the materials that the Layette
Committee can possibly use, and that
it is too late for you to help. This is
not true.
An American doctor, recently call
ed to a French home, could find alb
solutely nothing in the one-roomed
house but ragged sweater, in which
to wrap the tiny stranger. We sup
pose by now that this particular baby
| has an American layette. but the case
can be duplicated by the hundreds all
over France Not only is this true
now, but must of necessity continue
for months more. The only agency
which can be eff help in this line IS the
American Red Cross Before the
week Is over, can you not hand the
/ Layette Committee needles, or &c
yards of flannel? Either Will be vel
come. The committee is Mrs. ". II
Mansfield and Mrs E. L. Kelley. This
is the layette:
Two dresses, L yd Daisy clotf
for l dress; jacket, Il yd. flannel OF
outing; cotton brassieres, Z yd
cotton for /; flannel brassieres, Il
I'd. outing for l; cape, l p I'd. Daisy
cloth; 2 pr bootees, knitted, crochet
ed, or flannel; swaddling cloths, 2s
| by 80, of wooden blanketing; bind
ers, u yd flannel makes 3 C by 28)
II diapers, 20 by SO; 3 shirts, cottor
and wool, or made of firm underwear
| l bonnet knitted
Bag for sundries, Y yd. muslin OF
silkateen. The bag contains: 6 large
safety pins, medium safety pins,
small safety pins, l cake soap, wash
cloth, box powder, spool thread, 6
needles, and thimble.
The visit of inspection last week by
Miss Wilcox, the Field Secretary for
this State, was extremely satisfactory
and pleasurable. Miss Wilcox is both
charming and business-like, and for
tunately was able to give our Red
Cross a clean bill of health In fact
We were pronounced well-organized
weu-housed, and ll-superintended
She commended the directors of the
different branches of work, mention
ing particularly Miss Elizabeth
Clarke, whose untiring efforts have
made our Chapter so efficient.
Now, look, you don't want the
Kaiser to beat, do you? Well, he
isn't going to- However, he might, foI
all we are doing today at the Red
Cross rooms to stop him. For some
| unaccountable reason, the number o.
workers is dwindling alarmingly, and
the heretofore well-filled rooms are
very quiet In town of this size, we
| should be able to keep the work going
smoothly, without overburdening any
one person.
| Two ladies recently remarked that
| they supposed the workrooms were
crowded every day; so, as they Were
| not actually needed, they were not
| feeling as concerned as they might
| When they heard the real state of of
fairs, they decided to drop every 9th
| er activity, except that of keeping
their homes going, and attend solely
! to the Red Cross.
Our young men are not picking out
one day a week, and working on that
| day to win the war. They are doing
it all, and such of them as return
| will have right to hold US accounta-