"ALL WOOL!"

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 185, 16 April 1915, Page 3

"ALL WOOL!"

I '-'.±o cry is for more woo]. And the 1 Ty.T.sh' trausjerta nre loaded wit* j eftunUccs lons of sheep-wear for t:. ; ! use of our shuddering Tommies in th; • 1 tj'ci-elics. A .single .Tommy is supposed i !;■ require three sheep to keep bT ! wrrm. It'is well-known that the me ■ sq.ieezc themselves into half-a-dexe : 'eweater k>- when the wind is particularly •nippy. 'Recently a returned shivere: explained to a party of Pressmen hov> .1 the fighting men at the front are bein;- ' smothered in wool. Itis used Tor mopping up slush in the trenches, for clean- ; irig and. scouring the-cook's pans, ana : for wrapping round the regiment a > j mule in its last throes.of frost-bite. . • The ladies of England spend their tlays knitting wool. They make mitten* j and socks, and woollen driving dressc* | for Tommy. It is hinted that he will give up his rum allowance if people will ' only stop sending him wool. Ladie f -. I wliose incomes vary from ten to twen-ty-thousand a year .struggle frantic--to knit half-a-sock a day. They give up I bridge parties-and late dinners for this half-sock a day, whereas the humble Blummer in the East End would gladly take the job off her hand for a shilling or two a week'. '■!'■_;■ i i - : ..