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194 before, learning about foreign nations, boundary lines, the quaintness and beauty of the countries in Europe, their customs, and dress. Find out, too, in what parts of America the Red Cross has stood for help in time of need. You will find among such places Johnston, where there was a great flood, San Francisco during the terrible fire, and Halifax at the time of the explosion.

The next work of your Chapter will be doing something for your city or town that the adult Chapter to which your teacher or mother belongs tells you needs to be done. Your cooking class can study wheat substitutes,bran, whole wheat, corn, and oat meal, and graham flour. With the help of the cooking teacher this class can learn how to make victory bread of several kinds, and make this bread in their own homes, which is a very patriotic way of doing one’s bit for Uncle Sam. Perhaps the boys and girls of your class can have a booth in the town’s public market in the summer and sell produce from their gardens to swell the school Red Cross fund. Your art class can draw and color Junior Red Cross posters to put up in the school hall, in the library, or some other prominent place in the town. There are many designs that you can use on such a poster; flags, Uncle Sam, our American eagle, a little girl wearing the Red Cross uniform, a Red Cross dog, or an ambulance.