ABOUT SOCKS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 59, 5 November 1914, Page 3

ABOUT SOCKS.

The lifetime of a pair of socks when the wearer is engaged in heavy marching depends not only on the character of the sock, but on the way in which it is treated. The Manchester Guardian says that stories are going .about to the effect that one day of marching “jiggers up” the socks of our soldiers. This should not be, as is shown by-the testimony of the Yorkshire clergyman who has done much tramping abroad, and declares he wore only two pairs of socks when he footed it from Paris to Rome, and only got one hole in them. A former member of the Manchester Pedestrian Club sends word of his experience when tramping with the chib some years ago in the Ardennes. The tramp on that occasion ran to about 160 miles. One member carried only two pairs of socks—quite ordinary black socks, bought at any hosier’s foils 6d a pair; At the end of each day he took off his socks, placed them in cold water, and the next day carried them outside his knapsack until they had dried—ready to be put on again in the evening. This treatment kept the socks soft. The walker was not light—he scaled fourteen stone—but at the end of the week his socks were still holeless and they had not caused a single blister.