Extra items in knitted socks

[Matthew.Rector]

Ran across this while browsing through some microfilm....

Evansville Weekly Gazette
November 3, 1861
page 2, col. 2

A lady suggests that those benevolent persons who are knitting socks for the soldiers would be greatly enhancing the value of their charity by placing in the toe of each pair a small ball of yarn and a darning-needle, half a dozen postage stamps, a plug of tobacco, a short pipe, a pair of woolen mittens, a knife, fork and spoon, a bundle of rags for the soldier's sore toes, and any other little things useful for a batchelor. We want to know the size of a sock capable of containing half of the above articles.

[PVT.THIB]

Re: Extra items in knitted socks

Those would be some mighty large socks!

[Spinster]

Re: Extra items in knitted socks

I do believe that load would fit in a pair of size fifteen socks I knit here recently.

Just not in the toes

[MrsArmstrong]

Re: Extra items in knitted socks

Well I guess by 1862 they loosened the load

The Valley Farmer. April 1862, pg. 121
"A lady suggests that those benevolent persons who are knitting socks for the soldiers, would be greatly enhancing the value of their useful charity by placing in the toes of each pair a small ball of yarn and a darning needle."

Susan Armstrong

[cprljohnivey]

Re: Extra items in knitted socks

There are two socks in a pair. You should hae no problem stuffing all that stuff in any size pair of socks. Just put half the pile in once sock and the other half in the other sock. Then mail it to me :tounge_sm

[PogueMahone]

Re: Extra items in knitted socks

Skip the darning needle and yarn. Just put a second pair of socks in there.