American Red Cross - Uniforms - The Red Cross Town and Country nurse, in her plain blue gingham dress with soft collar and cufts, her panama hat and her emergency kit is a beloved figure in rural communities scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. Her insignia is the Red Cross pin. To her district she is nurse, mother, sister, teacher, and fairy-godmother. In a week she attends the sick, instructs mothers, gives school children lessons in hygiene, organizes health committees and clubs, brings clean- up and public welfare campaigns to the country, apparantly carrying in her bag a new lease of life for all to whom it opens
