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AL, un | der the et of Marech 3. 1879 | Soane ssl s s s Contribution to this paper will be glad- | lg reccived when the same deals wih mat- | ters of general interest, and is accompa- nred with the author’s name, as a quar- | antee of good faith. The editor caunot be respowsible ror the vicws of Ais correspoi- Jderts wor does he necessarily endorsetnem. | Warm Clothes For Europe As American women learned to utilize | substitutes and formerly wasted scraps | of tood so now they are smpioying cast | off clothing and material from secrap | bags to make garments for Europs’s | rageed children. Volunteer Service in American Red Cross chapters means that an increasing number of women are now devoting their ieisuré time to turning old | clothes into new garments to keep war- biighied children warm ana happy. Throuch the Insuiar and Foreign Divi- sion American women living abroad have already began this production work, which differs from that »f war time in tvo ways. First, the need is greater than ever before, it 1s comparable only to the demand for surgical dressings at the most trying period of the war Sec- ond, Red Cross chapters now make “‘some thing. from nothing’’ without tax- ing the chapter tfunds for new cloth. “*As to meterial’’, suys Mrs. Louis A. Baker, New York Ciiy, a pioneer in pro- duction work. ‘‘anything and everything | that 1s ciean can be used. And every | thing can be washed ciean.”’ | Workers are urged to find the pleasure of making a smart blue dress for a little | girl from old serge skirts. An old shirt | is turned into a pair of rompers, the | back of the shirt forming the front of | the rompers and visa versa so that no | button holes need be made. Warm baby | blankeis are mace by piecing squares of old sweaters together and binding them | with biis of silk. The war warments | were dull and clumsy. Workers are | arged te make the new clothes as pretty | as they kwow how in grder to add joy to CHRISTIANSTED. V.I. U.S. 3.. SATURDAY 14tH MAY 1921. comfort for the little childrea who have never known a beautiful thing. The immediate need is app lling. Two million garments fcr children up to four- teen, 250,000 layettes; and these are to he just a beginning. Os dresses, petti- coats, undershirts, nightgowns for child- ren up to five 250,000 each must be had. For girls 5 to 14, 125,000 each of dresses, chemises, petticoats, bloomers, night- gowns are needed. The same quantities of blouse suits, underdrawers, winter unaershirts, and nightshirts are needed for boys irom 5 to 14. As for the reason for this here are some of the facis. People are un- able to 2o out and look tor work because they have not sufficient eclothing to cover them. ©One ourse writes that she finds hor pstieats in czllars or sub-cellars which have no windows and no veatila- tion because there is no clothing or bed- ding to keep out the bitter cold if the doors were opened. Hundreds of little children have been found living in devastated villazes ftrom which the adults have fled. They were subsisiing on roots and clothed in tatters. Robert E. Olds, American Red Cross Commissioner to HEurope, tells how he visited a dugout one day and found a litt'le child sitting naked in the warm ashes, The mother explained that there was no clothing to cover only tfwo of them. one child and herself. While the older child gathered a few sticks she had put the little one in the ashes. to keep him warm. In a hovel un the outskirts of Vienna a Red Cross nurse fecund a mother lying on a few handfuls of straw and beside her a baby wrapped in a newspaper. [t was bitter weather, too. The nurse took off her flannel blouse and wrapped the baby in it until she could get something better. Is it any wonder 250.000 layettes are wanted at once? : When typhus comes as it has 1n so many places in Europe, the one suit of rags that is the only covering of thou- sands will not hold together for the de- lousing. Yet only by such measures may typhus be wiped out. Medical aid is the first aid of th- Red Cross in Eu- rope but itis of little avail unless the people can be kept clean and warm. Waen the call comes for the Santa Cruz Chapter to help in this works, it is hoped that many wiiling bands will be ready to take it up. The Chapter’s re- cord of production during the war was a proud one; and it will not be found wantin2 in time of peace. Na 115, For Want of Iron? Iron is Red-Blood Food —Nuxated Ir.3y Haine Put Roses Into the Cheeks of Women and Gives Strength and Energy to Men If you were $o go without eating until ym!" become weak, thin and emaciated, you cou! not do a more serious harm to yourse'{ tha; when you let your blood literally sti ve for want of iron—iron that gives it strenth and power to change food into livin: tissue, muscle and brain. Without plent, of iron in the bleod, no matter how much ar what you eat, your food simply passes thi. uzh vou without doing you any good-—yvou '.n't et the strength out of it and in<tca! .« © being filled with youthful strength an. i - 'y you are weak, nervous and all run ! f vou are not strong or well you owe : nurseli to make the following test: Sco w long you can work or how far you cia wal without becoming tired. Next tule two five- grain tablets of ordinary Nuxated [on three times per day after meals for ftw, weck then test your strength again an: -ee ho much vou have gained. Numbers of nervous, run-down people who were ailino all the while have most aston{shingly incicoed thelr strength ‘and endurance simp!- L takin: iron in the proper form. But don’: take ti old Lirds of iron simply to save a {~w conts ¥ou mu -t take iron in a form that can b easi’ twnrhed and assimilated (ke Nux. ated . if vou want it to do vou any good, otherwi -« it mav prove worse than uselecs, You -an procure Nuxated Tron Tiom ve drugxist on an absolute guarantes »f « faction or your money willbe refui. Distributors: Apothecary Hall, Y. : St. Thomas. LIST OF UNCLAIMED MAIL FOR THE WEEK ENDED MAY 7, 1921. Geo. E. Ballton, Mrs, Bellgo, Fily Benerson, Ernesta €. Benjamin, H, A Blair, : Sarah Brapnigann, Mrs. Nancy Emanuel; Est. Sion Farm, Miss Loretta Jacobs, C. Joseph, : Miss Judith Joseph, : Mr. Heraldo, Mc Intosh, White Oak Hill, Mrs. Augustina Myars. John Oliver, Mrs. Cecilia Paris, Anita Viola Petersen, Isabella Sampson, Mrs Thomas Simmons, Miss Alice Stephens, Diily Hall Hill, Mr. Henry Thomas, Mrs. Henerietta T'homas, co. Ernest Wil- : ; liams, Hanna Washington, United States Post Office, Christian- sted, V. I. May 9, 1921. B. R. LARSEN, Postmaster.