Knitters are to Be encouraged to further their output. Any who have a three months' non-stop record of knitting comforts for the forces are entitled to wear a special badge. Tt hes been approved by the Director of Voluntary Organizations, is made metal, the size of a shilling, is the figure of a lion, and it will bear the inscription 'V.W. for the Forces." V.W. stands for voluntary worker. It is expected that thousands will be issued almost immediately and that the distribution will be approved by cial knitting circles.
One may be sure that scores of these medals will find their way into hospital wards, where the women patients are enthusiastic knitters, An aged patient in a big London has ital, having received a generous consignment of wool from a friend, is @ctermined that bombs shall not ruin her war effort. She insists upon storing her gifts in several out of the way places so that it may be safe in raids. Some she hides away at the Jond of the hospital's north wing, some fat the far end of the south wing and the rest in the middle of the basement. "The wicked Germans shan't Ihave it all at once," she says. they want 0 get the lot Gentlemen The Queen These lines appeared in "The Times." They were written by Mary A. Winter, of Chicago.
London Bridge is falling down My fair Lady!
Be it said to your renown That you wore your gayest gown, Your bravest smile, and stayed in town When London Bridge was falling down, My fair Lady!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.