INSIDE THE RED CROSS ROOMS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15337, 22 July 1915, Page 8

INSIDE THE RED CROSS ROOMS.

(By Aji Outsider. ) '"' Wi> are all anxions nowarlavs to help with Rod Cro. : is work. ')itt «omc kind* ', of help arc actual hindr.uut-s. It was & doleful lTfotoiitkm of tliu fact that.led mc to thi> Rod Cross roo'iu, in Worcester street the other day. to make enquiries i which resulted in nn illumination that many another woman, like myself,eager , but unhistructed, I am certain' wonld "; liko. to share. First. T l<\inu d that, when car keel < I Red Cro;s Society got v crgetl into the \ St. John Ambulance Association last March, ie became by tint act really Ita .auxiliary to the whole of the Imperial, • forces —which explained why nenrer'^ ! again, if I would be a K«>d patriot, r " j must I oh jest to my contributions being.-,. sent wherever the nnthouties saw ttef-_ were most needed, instead of toouthtw. ", Zealand boys exclusively, although*;* n matter of fact, in respoiu-e to % need our tilings are just now geinjO stniight- to Egypt. And it explained,. ,- too. why all my contributions mnst» *_ made, as to pattern, material and 6«V^ : exactly in accordance with known Artaj;; requirements; why 1 could no longer isend in whatever I likod to send, but ; only, if I really wanted to help jus* - what the experience of experts had ask- - -- ed for, and would not have to scrap i-~ why, for example, I must not pat ~ frin'-"s on my scarves any tnoro, or wal my T-andagcs by hand, or finish off'Tqr.-sock-toes with their wonted ridge, whreb : would mean pain to marching feet. OT # rniiko coverings that would do all ngh« -.- for my own rubber hofc-water bags, TO»-' ! .f not for the Army regulation tin on*!*-;/ or commit various other pot pecca<W- ( * loes, unless indeed I w&ntcd to o*-«j-hinder-help. "But how am Ito about all these fussy UfeUe detailed protested. "Write or come to us fall instructions," was tho answer, *«£ "if you would like to etart a branch your own neighbourhood, we wdldrigjjf send you a demonstrator.» reaUy have so many mietakeeP' ' I next, and was by the tiori of two large boxes i would have to be undone and done sg*m - . by patient fingers at the it Jotild be the least filled, in ono short week wiAwgJ time wasted material. »"*2S£tSt? - intentions. I felt drc«W and-by way of changing the .BUbj«ct ,v Canterbui 7 were oontnbutine^ BOW- - "Ninety-two, and " o , nes . jjjgjJJj,> lart f S&t^rUfo^»gJ^; r^tti^^^Kf; a little reflecting. All. professional, every ono m &*t>jJL j. months' experience and ting through all this I™°*%*%% % m§mm be undonel ' ■