Women and War Work

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to get your supplies, in trains and tubes and theatres and concerts, and public meetings. This was happening while many of our working women were without work and it was felt that this was likely to compete very seriously with the work of these women. The Queen realized there was likely to be hardships through this and also that

distributed by the local committees for the prevention and relieving of distress among families who may be suffering from unemployment owing to the war. If these garments were not made by the voluntary labor of women who are willing to do their share of work for the country in the best way open to them, they would not, in the majority of cases, be made at all. The result would be that families in distress would receive in the winter no help in the form of clothing, and the soldiers and the sailors and the men in hospitals would not enjoy the additional comforts that would be provided. The Guild is informed that flannel shirts, socks, and cardigan jackets are a Gover

and their purchases would have the additional advantage of helping to secure the continuance of employment of women engaged in their manufacture. It is,

ery town in the Kingdom organized their own towns. Gifts came from all over the world and a book kept

was the Queen's wish that the branches of her Guild should be free to do as they wished in distribution, send to local regiments, or regiments quartered in t

nd jerseys, and mufflers and gloves for minesweepers and helmets, everything they needed

egetables supplied to it the w

means something to eat and something warm to drink, somewhere cozy and warm out of the cold and chill and damp of winter camp and trench, somewhere to write a letter, somewhere to read and talk, somewhere that brings all of "Blighty" that can come to

g Cross and Waterloo are names written deep in our hearts these days. We have free buffets for our fighting men at all of these, a

ave to go back. The buffets are there for them, and those who have no one to meet them in London and who have to travel north or west or east to go home, are met by men and women who direct them where to go by day and motor them across London to their station at night. The leave trains that get in on Sunday morning brings Scott

hty, too-canteens and Y.M.C.A. Huts. Our books and our magazines,

ed by our actors and actresses, and they go out and sing and act and amuse our men behind

th, largely caused by overwork, as Lady Dorothie Fielding's ambulance work, for which she also was decorated, and

e quartered with others at Ghent before and during and after the siege of Antwerp. When the ambulance trains started to come in from Antwerp they

s. Knocker started the Pervyse Poste de Secours Anglis, a dressing station so close

e. In February, 1915, they were decorated by King Albert, and since March t

undreds of lives by being where they can render aid so swiftly, and the military authorities do not

s, are equally poor things. The woman who wants to help her man sends him bright cheerful letters, not letters about difficulties he can't help, and that will only worry him, but letters with all the news he would like to have, and t

ve or disbelieve, but no person of intelligence fails to realize the power of thought, and love, and hope, and the spirit o

e wounded-a "Blighty one," as our men say, and we get him home to nurse and

e consolation of the poem written by Riflem

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emy. The treatment and conditions of our prisoners in Germany were sometimes terrible-the horrors of Wittenberg we can never for

ers, sisters and relatives of the men. Regimental Funds were raised and parcels sent through these. Girls' Clubs and the Le

ations about what may be sent. Now the whole work is regulated by the Prisoners of War Help Committ

ilians are interned, studies are carried on, and classes of instruction, and technical and educati

ds for the Belgian Pris

of our worst wounded, and permanently disabled, and tubercular and consumptive men. In Switzerland, among the beaut

ry their released men. Some of our prisoners have escaped from

France or Egypt. They have died with the men, bringing water and help and trying to bring in the wounded. They have been decorated with the V.C., our highest honor,

m, things eternal are living realities and there are questions for which they want answers. There is so much the P

ralians, the New Zealanders, for the two together, immortally to be known as the "Anzacs," and for the South Africans, where they can all f

tan's, the wonderful training school for the blind, has been the very sp

ed are doing splendid work in training an

ed $500,000, is on the site of the old Star and Garter Hot

een broken in the wars for us, may find a permanent ho