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[DY MAJOR C. 2. C. STAZET

The Battery happened to be idle on Luis particular morning This was a foly quiet part of the British Front, anci uho

Battery had been sent to it for that cy reason. It was a Now Army Bette Yo only recently out from England, and Luis was its first taste of war. It had already done a certain amount of aacoting, with creditable results, and even its Major, regular saldier who had been sent home from the front to command it, was begin ning to ss a werd of approval to it, now and then

U.S. W・・ ENAT WAR WORK.

AN EARLY AWAKENING

WOMEN

WORK

IN FRANCE!

four sou the

THE DALL

SPECIAL

PHILADELPHIA

[BY, G. IVY SANDERS.]

Our British experiences ago repost themselves daily here women—are quickly adopting trades.

Tanly

canning

At a frst glance of America war had concluded that women this country began with the (bottling) of food and ended with the knitting of comforts. But I very quickly discovered that the calling up of the men to the colours is daily necessitating the employment of large numbers of worden in banks and counting-houses, on the land, and in many of the factories.

Homeland and Over

pups a trin

interested girls lined up deck. From her place among the who were detailed in connecti disembarkation came forw

an orange armlet and some cryptic let iden ters, denoting her us Draft Receivi Officer, round the

lady

few spirit:

for

Toighta of

THE LEAVE TRAIN,

BY JAMES DOUGLAS.]

For later, d. All In London there in a grim, grey hotel ear or the dura, in which, every night, and every morning, may be the thore are little grim, groy agonies. 16 od and they get a fort Bands beside a great railway station, in twelve months, though out of which the Leava Train France

concessions that can be steams every morning at a mio

bly the half way hou "sleep" there onl

The position it was in was a very com. fortable one, it had been prepared soms mouths before, but never used till now The Americans have always prided

overcoat, and between her and

the dra The trees of an id orchard concealed themselves that their women, unlike them who had brought ova the guns to perfection, a couple of diof Europe, have never marred their laconto sentences were exchanged. The ber that

dainty Bagers by heavy work. But the women, wearing khaki uniform, brown With I visited a factory where over 500 women hate, and serviceable war has changed all that. This morning. and girls have been engaged during promptly

brown Bhoes, new standard the lust the formed but a compara which they were carrying their kit and

light carpenter

up the suit-ouses In willingly ing work. They tively small proportion of the large belongings, swung down the gangway. number of employees,

bup

lapidated sheds and some outhouses made very good stores for ammunition and spare parts, besides providing shelter for the detachments on duty, About a couple of hundred yards away was a row of cottages, in quite habitable order, where the main billets were situated. Every body was very comfortable, officers as

picked

DOWN. QUAR

Large numb deal with t

incalculable

plant

Vin

well as men. To add to the amenities ExTmself, most ready and in a few minut

the place, there was a village half a mile away where very decent beer could be

the represent the thin end of the wedge and briskly formed up again in double of the more intensive Employment of line. There was a very brief inspection,

The foreman of the

they were march, the vicinity and anxious to tako as many more as being out, in face of the fierce squalls that necessary to obtained quite cheaply could get and the women and work blew round the sheds of the docks and them.

showed the same pleasure in their work land. They experience the as do, the war-working word s

Eng the mud that alternated with the rail, sions tion and satisfaction in doing

some way metals, thing to speed victory, and to prove In such manner, with only the differ-St to be of the same tremendous value as ence of weather more or less favourable, them.

substitutes the absent

It was a ine, clear spring morning and there being no firing to be done, everyone was busy cleaning up and im proving the place, with due precautions against the only thing that impaired the delights of the position, A German

sausage-balloon

saine

summer hotels

floated high in the DONNE VERA MA Menenhundreds of women; for weeks past have place, very gay and

conditions at the front-regarded the whole thing as a whim of the Major's but they respected his orders, neverthe leas. But on fuch & morning as this no man thought of danger.

come to the

or in the hour Offic

harg

Du s10 dow

at eleven to clock, Yon will nec many a drab little tragedy before, mid- night.

The last day of leave

misery for all

packed fight with anodynes and anaesthe

Lunca at

matinee. There

the

Bubalterz

belov

that has been length

In the dreadful. dreadful hotel hardly Grey-faced women git hile and say nothing to Then they drink their their hot ilk and seek milk night Heavens how many mothers and fathers have started through cleopreer night in these dreary bed- is haunted by the

the pen toome The packing

bean re

there for a high, you forare lucky if there is a key for your bed. Seting room with

Subalterns have a habit of going

their

bedroom key in their

one ances

pocket. There are whole floors without a bed in key there

There are few hotels so tragical

way platform

rather alway them t

one of the young officers come in

of communication. In such case they traner

"NOTHING IS MORE EMBARA a few minutes before eleven & lunghthem ready in their hundreds, something below the surface of what is must be housed in huts, and directly these

RASSING THAN EXTREME

THINNESS,

the plump, well-developed man who cuts the melons" and has the fan Bocially,

his table in the fighting-post where he out into the orchard. It was a part of

a moet

folks

hing been's smiled. The

Las faded away and in is only, a dull sadness. have lost the

ereive impre

no

breathe on

and

The

the boy

bitter

air in the far distance, and it was neces. The call has certainly enr

lays, there is quite littleTh Wor been arriving almost daily in France, sary to avoid observation from it. It men of the United States, and they are

billeta In the sleeping was a long way off, it seemed incredible proving themselves just as willing and They are the companies who are forming

wo to four beds have that anyone in it could detect movement eager as the women of France and of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps à prontion A

The salon mɛkés à fö- try hard to look manfferent and moved at such a range, but the Major had Great Britain. The ned, of course, is

the dining room the co But they are not indifferent or unmoved issued stringent orders and was in the not Re yet so great as with us at home, great and notable reinforcement of Bri arrangement becomes an easy matter.

They and their old folks are weary with prints for the walls, the effort to keep up. They have done habit of dealing severely with anyone The women are not to be seen in the tish resources already, and destined to With evine colo found the wrong side of the hedge that streets as commisionaires, omnibus of contributo a powerful addition to the a few vases of ant

gay tissue-

for the lamps, the best and they are at their last gasp

and here partially screened the Battery The war-car corretos, porters, gathering strength by which victory final and there flags of

teninway-car

resignation on their But where culisted

are needed-in""

Allfes cheery

langh bag oc

Boon laughed men-all fnexperienced as to present-day caring for reasing the und and complete is going to be won. The and homelike effect is quickly created,

for their

the isted food

quiet arrival is entirely characteristic of which the girls highly appreciate families supply and reducing its consumption, the spirit and purpose of a scheme whose Burt the women are needed also at base aiding recruiting and assisting in the full meaning is tur from being under camps, as well as at stations on the lines production of war material--there you stood even by those who claim to know will find

noticed that they have begun to convertently,

the woman's are reached you are in the typical atmos is nothing left to

un until the agony is overrat whine was heard rapidly drawing nearer, take charge of the lightning lifts that movement,

have, of course, phere of this new force. There are campa thirty for has be ear. What can be wards away. The Major jumped up from Beconds and that girls are rapidly the honoured names of the members of and there are others coming to comple said to him 1. All that can be said has

What he had been studying his maps, and Thessenger boys in the city offices, the Imperial Nursing Service appear in tion that will accommodate 600, Insch

bending to the way work of the every Army List. But here, for the first smallest of these centres the women been said over and over again. There is

in this country is in very truth, time, are enrolled the women who are o anually. “

in end of sorrow Sorrow itself is well in milit sigallers, which Scrawny, skinny people are seldom Flanders where it was too wet to dig dug, that Amer ut factor in the great part bear their share in the the Armyed with the despatch of messages, tele

labours under meaning indicates that they are concern-| *igh fired out.

ut. Grief is almost dead of is

revint.c playing in the present taken by the Roval Engineer and the graphic or telephonic types of hub 137 erhaps these, phantoms who so for popular. We all admire fine figures, outs, but he had long ago decided how war Conditions here in April: lot Serviceranches. It has been my aro employed-namely, the ordinary pathe keys and disappear in the lift have No dressmaker can hide a bony, skinny to protect his men in case of hostile shell very like those prevailing in

in England at Paymasters form MALO

ing. They were to scatter along a lane the outbreak of hostilities. Fully two You ought to test the one guarantood that ran towards the fianks of the But years clapsed before we really mobilised privilege, as one of the first little party torn with its straight walls and doping for over the worst of their pain now

permitted by the War Office

co rool, and the Women power: The United States to go to Franos as Special Correspon Circular form and reliable treatment which has made tory, as soon as the word was given, and our women power

Niser, which has a remas the last dreadful night he come usually, of wood, They have already in imagination partes good for years in England, which has to remain there till recalled. But was called on its women immediately after dunts to see not only what women are covered with

The have drunk corrugated iron taken Americs by storm and which has this the first

series directed the declaration of war, Over 1,000,000 doing siready there, but also, through ter maken for economy:

Limm and drogs of

They are numb with ust a casual shot, at once enrolled for national service, the courtesy of members of the General material in construction, but from been awarded a gold medal and diploms upon the position, or

of socret brooding i Ahonour Brucels, Belgium,lch as frequently arrivent it always report away to impart the stimulus toga somés estimate of the oven Creates manifestations had the drawbacks of have have trim all

espite the fact that the actual confier Headquarters Biafi, to be enabled to Louinine point of view its earlier mystery of the "They have fought Nothing in history has ever approached Uxious question to dich we feel at boing adds that are opening out for them

the furies at bay. marvellour success of this now treat. It seemed hours totore the

no place on which a mirror could be of love that longs to frustrate reality

the. Latzutagems, and menty which, according to raport, has me more thin, folks plump than all the the recond round was heard, though in

fixed did not lend itself amicably to the placing of pegs on which to hang clothes, and to baffle fact. They have forced the tonit and insftentive medicines for really it was caly three or four minutes sunca i wớc The shell came closer, and barat on the

to recall at any and sent everyone out into the centre way pace day after day so as to give how the Woman's between the cote in order to drone but miserable mind no time to think. They

bleeding heast no time well Plamp

formed her side of the Battery, but much

has come into the Chief Controller enlisted the syre very ordinary folkThey are not men and women assimilate what they cab nearer than the first, its splinter ficked

to the condipathies of the Royal Engineers over such Jeaves off the app'e-trees that Buttered Thin, scrawny do not

Pioneer work vertable problema as these, and in result to rich or too poor. But many an old new discovery arms to supply the slowly to the ground. There was no som

men Legion some remarkable evolutions have been taco in this house of fearless tears is

beautiful" with pale grief. one thing the thin folks lack, that is the for further doubt,

pity the Vational Ser brought about that have modified all oth-faced boys power to assimilate food is the

for faminine these objections. After actual experience It renew the vigour, re-establishes the

spect, Ellür of having slept in a Nissen hut, one can solemn I the

rol sy that they are warm, airy, and com- 1 pity even more the greyfaced mothers of them will come back no more But normal, all in nature's own way.

of enrol: It is not a lash to jaded nerves, but a

the rather unfortable.

with their hungry eyes. For three years iment housed at Bt generous upbuilder.

Ministry

the grey faced mothers have sorrowed in

the

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reason

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Major gave the word, and the men walked reluctantly away up the lane. It was too much like running away, in their opinion although they realized that they could do no good by exposing them selves where they were The Major him self returned to the fighting post, which was sand bagged against anything but a direct hit, and going to the telephone called up the Group. By this time the shells were beginning, to drop uncom fortably close to the guns,

I'm being shelled by a 6.9 howitzer of 231, sir," he rrported

wore

Realise that the war is 3,000 miles away,

But

of

daily

the Ordnance

SYSTEM

GRAD MALIFE IN CAMPS,

ม B

the

bleed and the

30

pity 7 p

every morning.

Thore is no

Battery from somewhere in the direction suddenly, and limp down the laze to done can one grasp the argent insistency good Draxary that cannot be paralenon Doys and the same silent mon

All right came back the answer. But the German Battery seemed, equal Now, to take thousands of the ings soon assert theraselves surround is all It is n

charms

کی را

and the dit monthful said orrible me

that there are no wounded soldiers, no air-invaded town and villages aroused There is no o by the devastating hand of the Lun length me ator There is as yet to serious

of Army Auxiliary man-pover. Only fall

tion of being, or to de War and what war means in and tons of service around the countries in which it is beans to bo fought, could have produced the u When the

A of effort which exists here today vice made

And, to my mind, it is that fac“ makes the whole hearted war work of the ing to every

which hour, and woman of the United States so wonderful ment for Fran Outwardly there is little display of

fortunate women's war work and certainly no Ermin's came an end the show. as it is in the heart of the of Labour took up the task of recruiting Of course, the dormitory system has this gra, grey hotel, and it is only one older rather than on the battlefield that women upon i noeder baals, which oven been, checasity, for in no other way out of hundrade, in this stricken Farope

reality of war lies so the in the yet, it would seem not aufficiently far could hundreds and even thousands of mother is sorrowning for the same son

of ours All

All over Europe the same hearts of the women am that the real war reaching if the growing calls from across women be accommodated. But in all for there is only one mother and only spirit and determination flame, the Channel are to be met. Not till ani there is excellent privacy in the one son

the magnitude of the ablution, block-the Absolution De In this grim hotel there is a grim, grey by which the fighting men are partment, Sergeant R.E. was wont breadfast fed, equipped, and supplied with all the to describe it in the bath and dressing need to order it. It is there every morn though now and then a man would stop seals for the mighty task yet to be cubicles. Each girl has a camp bed and ing. It is eaten every morning by the

with our Army blankets. where the medical orderly was waiting, of the appeal to every woman to come sheets are leaving a track of blood behind him, forward and take up her own part in it.

and it mitted on account of laundry limitations and

the same silent mothers and fathers and wives,

That I'll got a plane sent up to locate it at

Tea, hacon and eggs. Individual tastes for pre once Can you reply if called upon 1 ly determined The aeroplane reported young, eager possessed of certainly

their ferent huts, holding from eight to six and six pence worth of anguish! Then two rounds in quick, sucesion to hav- average attractions and chan

cks in the throat Yes, certainly, air, replied the ing fallen right among its gane, but still sex, and often very much more away teen beds each, may come out in rivalry comes the supreme agony of the railway Major They'll only hit us by duck the shells came over not quite so rapidly from the care of good homes, and to drop as to window curtains or the creation of platform. The Leave Train It's the balloom cbserving, I think, and perhaps, but next enough to be very un-

them down where

orside by friezes of picture postcards, work,

described. It is the culmination of

dry it's too far back to do very accurate comfortable. One fell into a cartridge side with that of men, is needed, was an room, has only barci, tables and work

benches

dreary misery. But our w

Women Bre store, etting it on fire it looked for all, but the same barrack-life, ut prond. There is

never

a sob or a tear, He called up the wireless operator, moment as if the ammunition would qualities and perceptions. Fortunately, of all, but the sitting room hut, with its

are twisted miles, sidelong looks whom post was come little distance from be lost, and the Battery forced to abanshe herself achieved her medical degree books, magazines, and flowers, is of much and the

woman possessed of theea was at hand, stove, folding chairs, writing tabins of yearning, foolishly irrelevant remarks, the Battery, and warned him to be ready don the shoot in consequence. But s

black bleakness. This after an exceptionally brilliant aniver more homelike character to receive calls - Then be went along to stolid ganner (Susser labourer, Daew

Gethsemane goes on day after day all where the men were grouped, two or months ago) called a few of his chums ir course, and she has called to her ss. Each camp has its due complement of over Europe. No evening years to morn- sistance a number of women who con thre hundred yards away, watching the and the party strolled casually into the Par shelling, which was certainly rather wild, burning shed, and dragged out the can take up the diverse details of the or. Army rations are drawn by the ing but some heart breaks The Leare

Train makes one hate war. ganising work.

et assistant administrator and naturally The time han not et much depends upon her as to the use

of those who gun to burn to a safe distance the are responsible for the we shoot proceeded the faster for their care of the thousands of women who have oludes either fried bacon, boiled

particniandbreakfast always in-

and means. - It does not alwaye kapper example

some or are coming France. It must rissoles, or mince, in pellition to the ten in one authentic instance when the are

here to say that distinguished

hed breed and butter, and preserve, Dinner came to the girls dance. These NCO

geante an Australian camp near by the military ad BV had either roast or boiled beef or vallant in all sendes, arrived, bringing ministration in France, has left a great 84edfrut band or rice pad: two enormous pans of bathlike din best in the world of science, and that the while upper prevent tous hoasib Mos filled with a wonderful fruit salad the composition of which was one of their special ources of pride Nowherd tter, oz, more animated dancing enj with a zest that is good to watc

le in an interval some giri – sings

charming Drill" will be done, in which no order ballod Forhan has to be

obered unless it le given in that worthy's name Hence, when t dapper little figure and calls “O'Gr

in hor khaki ranges the men before her

front O'Grady says

time

thore will Form fours Mark time (ady be roars of laughter as crestfallen score borals and surprised sergeants bare to fall out for having failed to observe that the last command was not to be followed. With some paper masks, s some simple dis guises, there is no end to the fun of de Champ evening, and perhaps ingenuitz has never gone further than the evolution of the costumer for a troon of Pierrets that ork of lonely and isolated litéle

CAMP

frem brown and yellow colton coveringe Artillery creens. Very rightly indeed is this recreative side encouraged and helved by the unit administratora BA 3D- aspect of camp lite that is quite indis- pentable

showing that the observation was not ridge boxos, carrying those that had become to speak individual-being and made of them. In the diet sheet of a

good. The chief danger seemed to be that a chance shot might hit one of the suns or cut the telephone communications of the Battery

The Major called the men round him and explained what was to be done, ma ing it clear that if the zeroplane called them up they would have to man the gund. The shells were bursting all about the orchard, each with a terrifying crash, followed by the vicious whirr of flying splinters. It was not an inviting pros pect for unseasoned soldiers, but the cheer they gave when he has finished speaking suggested thet for some" ob- ecure reason they liked it well enough The Major returned to the fighting post with a smile on his face

The pilot who went up was an ex- perienced man and he located the o lend. ing Battery in a very short time The shelling was still erratic when he called up, and so far no damage had been done to the guns The Major went to the door of the fighting-post with his mega phone Battery Action

The men dashed in to the guns will, lying thềm on the with over thought fying abo

Ots

ing

A though

Then abest the tide bega The German shelling grow will

English gunners, noticing the heat of action, cheered now each of them bevi detachments were rather three men wounded by splinters y, after a last salvo that from the orchard, the Germa altogether. The duel was

But war is a duel to still the English Battery

servatrons, came dow pound its adversary. shooting, instead of of the enamly es was reaching its shoot was over, the garodrome and rasg

I should like that shoot rounds into rest were righ think he'll

they had retch

to turdi

How Chie

even in own definite status 0/yres Her

anded by

dings,

hit of accuracy of detail she has ties in soup,

Welsh rare

ked apples

cheeseor

tired in scientific pursuits is proving tasty dishes, with fan. All the groceries

less valuable in her new sphere. supplied are of Army stands thesay you see

Each large centre or district in which and good, bread, much whiter the members of the Women's Army are home and sufficient sugars are regularly

king has its Aren Controller. Next available Boutine orders ** are

ate redued fing ranks come the Unft Administrators to a minimum, though those due to local

and there are also grades like those of

tant Administratore, whose duties a

ond with those of a quartermaster at whe

alent

may

There is one

prominently

Lue prection-of-

ound camp tice

titles or through railway tracks and of ercas

the ingrailway lines is undesi aves Bur- hinders

chunting operations,

Lys and Tudor must be

Well na o 1916, and their

HOURS OF RECREATIONA If militer disci wear them and surroundin ministrators recrea

from the hits

sition and dan

ferns English

grades arc

1. finding.

and

work sed over Are

too.