By George MacManus
THEY MUST BE IN THE NEIGH ORHOOD-
Coer 1940, King Fratures Syndicate, Ine, Wiąg uglas terenet
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
British Women Work For The Red Cross
In just over a year two and had schemed a roll of cloth into three-hour donations of spare time the cutting of more than so many stitching have made one of the pyjamas and shirts for soldiers most impressive contributions to and sailors and airmen ... with the War. Involving fantastic the scraps made perhaps into bed quantities of raw materials; hun-covers and hot water bottle Jack-,
was lucky to be sewing instead of wearing them!
Every working party has its own ingenious uses for even the. minutest scraps of material. Not a particle is wasted, Every roll of dredweights of wool; miles of cts. They use them now for cloth before cutting has its scl- cloth; buttons enough to outline childrens' knickers and shirts and vedges torn off -to be knitted the London area; cotton enough sleeping suits.
into hospital cloths and dusters. to stitch a trail from one end of England to the other. It adds to
It seemed a long way to Nor- Shavings too small for any other. staggering sums in finished gar-way and Finland from the quiet use are sold for paper manufac-
ture. with the ements. And the distinction of English countryside.
Contributions from every part: supplying the Red Cross with first Spring flowers coming into everything a pair of hands can bloom as women went to village of the world reach the Red Cross. town halls to for the purchase of material for make to help its great humane schoolrooms and
first knitted its working parties. In addition, work. To make the lot of every atruggle with their war casualty
negotiate thick, most of them have their own: little easier to 'helmet. bear.
neat schemes for raising money for the clumsy-to-work felt into
purchase of raw material. The These women
who supply the bootees and gloves.
parties and Red Cross-or to be precise who Nearly a hundred women in dances, and garden
drives which sew and knit for the Central Hos- one Kent town will never smell bridge and whist
in ald of the pital Supply Service - meet in mackintosh again without think- have taken place
They made! cause during the past year are groups of varying numbers in ing of Dunkirk, every town and village through- pillowslips of it... for men who countless. out the British Isles. They are had swum through a sea of burn- the women who carry on the jobs ping oil.
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To
affiliated to
the fighting men must leave, They Five thousand of these working run their homes. They look after parties are actually their children, They still find time like Mrs. Johnson of Beth- nal Green, London, to sew two afternoons a week and "wish they could do more." She does a fac- tory night shift in addition to cooking and cleaning for a fami-
meet.
Some workers have time for
·By⋅ Iris Carpenter
Every kind of competition-- from a golf match to guessing the number of biscuits in a tin, has been organised. In one London suburb members of a working party pay a penny for each hour of sleep lost during an air raid. Pennies are spent on wool which is knitted during the raid.
Since the outbreak of war more than a million gifts have reached the Red Cross in addition to those ly of four. Yet she has to miss the Red Cross. There are coun- sent out by them to be made up one afternoon's attendance at the tless others working indepen- by their working parties. There' school in which her working party dently or through various women's are stories like the Sussex village guilds and organisations. The of three hundred people who col- youngest members are often Lected nearly a pound a head. a few hours' sewing each day schoolgirls... who at eight years Or the fishing village on the North Some con spare time for only two
old capably knit- squares for Devon Coast whose collected suf- hours a week.... They all take
hospital blankets. The oldest is ficient money and in three months knitting home to weave what
"woman of knitted up two thousand gar- comfort they can from their lei-probably the French
eighty who went through the siege ments. A blitzkrieg of effort, sure for those who suffer.
of Paris. She spends her days in reckoned with knitting pins, this campaign knitting operation thimbles and womanly endeav-
War's savaging of half Europe is recorded in the vost bundles of goods they have made and sent to the depots in London, Bristol and Sale..
In Poland
socks.
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Hallowed by the sense of hu manity (speeding hundreds of The vast organisation needed to thousands of busy hands. By the deal with the production of goods prayers that these war days and for the Central Hospital Supply the suffering consequent First Foland. Field dressings Service is under the Chairman- them shall quickly pass. .bandages men's pyjamas, ship of Viscountess Falmouth, lt hospital shirts! No one had then works from a London Headquar
thirteen Regional glimpsed whut this war was deters through stined to do to civilians. It came Divisions. Some fdea of its eff- with that first S.O.S. for clothing. ciency may be gathered from the Any and every kind of clothing fact that there is a daily record to cover women, and children as kept of raw material, work in finished goods from well as the men who trudged pain-hand and fully across a ravaged country in which it is possible to estimate that first, helpless, hopeless army the length of time to within an of refugees. No one realised even hour or so in which a given num- then the significance there was ber of garments can be made and behind that need for clothing for delivered to any part of the world. the women and children. No one
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During the Finish campaign five thousand pyjamas of a certain type were urgently required, They were on their way in twenty- four hours.
A large London area is directed by Lady Daresbury from a small flat in which seventeen miles of cloth have been cut into garments during the past. year, These are sent to the working partles of the area.. We took two sackfuls to an East London school. Twenty women sat stitching busily. Five at machines. The others were tacking seams, making button- holes in a consignment of women's pyjamas, needed just now for air raid casualties. S
Black Wool Ensemble
Not one of those women had slept in bed for a week. They had spent their nights sleeping in air raid shelters. They were per-. fectly cheerful. Surprising how soon you get used to it," said one. She is a market hand, up at half past four every morning, and proud of the fact that she can make the best buttonholes. in the Virginis Grey wears a natural straw party in spite of hands gnarled | "which necents her black wool suit. from years of twisting wire for flower mounting.
A atraight skirt is toppeil, by m fitted, collarless jacket with light light on the nockom, in the förmi of appliqued natural atraw.. ¿diss. Grey repeats this aleido in her hạt,
Apother had been thrown from one side of her home to the other] when a bomb demolished the one next door. She machined pyjamas of combined black straw-anił mas seams with professional dexterity tural. Black shoes, bag and glovo,
and the remark that she l complete the ensemble,..
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