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Show Moble Inlixh ladies tlbrkinj in Deaths Tactorkr Patriotically Careless of Their Dainty Fingers, Lady Lolebrooke, Lady Gatacre. Among Others, and Even Society Buds, Are Wprking at Lathes, Assembling the Parts of Shells, Soldering Fuse Sockets, and Often j Outstripping Men at I These Tasks m the world is returning to mediaeval and even more primitive methods of warfare in this great European conflict con-flict Men are using helmets and armor of various kinds. fightlDg at close quarters with all kinds of primitive weapons, using hand-grenades hand-grenades and liquid fire, which is like the old "Greek fire" with which the Greeks defended Constantinople against the barbarians. They arc even using a kind of cross-bow in the French trenches and other antique weapons. Ana now, to put the finishing fin-ishing touch on this return to ancient an-cient days, the soldier's wife is making mak-ing guns and shells for him, just as the knight's lady would polish his sword and gird it on for him before he went to the war. A total of 79.946 English women ere now registered as willing to do work on war munitions, and nearly the whole of them are now engaged at It. Lord Kitchener set his warmest thanks to two Glasgow firms for the splendid work done by women employees em-ployees on shells. Among them were many women of title and high social position who strove to set an example ex-ample to their sisters in turning out shells of the finest and most deadly character. At the same time most of these women are enrolled in a military organization or-ganization which is ready to fight against the Germans in the field if necessary. The Marchioness of Londonderry, a beautiful young woman wo-man of vast wealth, is the commander command-er of the "Women's Volunteer Reserve" Re-serve" of England. She enjoys the actual title of colonel in the army. Lady Helen Percy, daughter of the armor of various kinds, fighting at ' Hs' ' fN. ish'so'cTety Women, Incfuding il'drGaUcrend tidy Colebrookl ' dose quarters with all kinds of Y WMBH primitive weapons, using hand- EJHf?w ' f" "" stage of machine shaping. All atom grenades and liquid fire, which is Ml Ms' ' A m- f " "' her are stacked up the rougsfog,, the Greeks defended Constantinople """fl,l,lMjr with the ease and precision olt French trenches and other antique , ' IBP" fjf '':M ft H these thousands of women wkoj : weapons. Ana now, to put the fin- . mm i their lives, had existed as soda ishing touch on this return to an- "- . I m butterflies, are surrounded with u, cient days, the soldier's wife is mak- . 'KW m . ii s try, , M implements of the roughest dm ing guns and shells for him, just as ' 'l&JuStf' " V ' Mjiirii"" - T'lSSKXSftM. 99 " f- Wt tiring labor, and their ears tie My the knight's lady would poJish his "WSBUSSJwmJllm WKT "fE- '"' s 4K with the grinding and clanking a sworo and gird it on for him before liliiiiiiSSPfiSliiittlM machinery. Formerly this he went to the war. , v tt5e'H, tFf "'TOiiii.. ' have "put their nerves on edge" je A total of 79.946 English women J f ;,i W''' . haps sent them to a BanaUrlum r are now registered as willing to do W " ' IBHjfr m upon a luxurious yachting trip work on war munitions, and nearly V5MI PP"MLl' 1 they are health v-eye bnr- the whole of them are now engaged - ,j "feis f muscles firm and elastic, and tig thanks to two Glasgow firms for the tofTlVLTmnnlLTZZ D jectstte Lady Helen Percy, daughter of the ik' " " mm fM jU deft-fingered ladies .- ' ltM ' jfc right number by weight and poariil flk jHH melted resin over them to give tis V , 1l mM j mass of missiles a certain rigiditj . ' .; . . "sf ' ! aS-ISB 7 '"hi: thir nieta! case w ' '"" SCii .-'"'M' P MS r ;rf charge of the projected tMThiSr: Vr; .'.;'.. . iiv '-'-m jP 7 shall send them flying a an ix "ftaiC IeHIR BiijEi vIE S Bfct iSlrK - tion. Melted resin is even moit SXWt iP. 'nemKpm and many of these fair faces i:i yjHlW I Jt-v;' . TW " ' "military service." . L'' jSkm ' y' ' '-'f :JP k4 . '.0 country's cause victorious, it ffii'to r, . '.; ija ' flere Miss By "raV ' opened London drawing rooms, ttw llfjkmm . Armilage. Swca. fair "veterans" will display M mWwtwBW -.. jNWilcl Society '"en fcngagcd in VssembKng the Parts of Shrapnel Shells-They Don't I fcifiSR'!) ' - 1 Slum-Worker. Toy n bee and Miss Bo ton. Both in the Best London'1 Society " W0' ,f I ,'ne'ran"18 B-,u Ynoir Service to Their Country .t This Work. jjBtt!!?., women working Ethel Armltage, member of an old Soldering the mptw N" - on munitions. and wealthy English family and a Fuse-Sockets jFaZ2fm Nvfgfli ' : '' " " on rcrl that those rich and favorite in the best known' society, of 3-Inch JT Sjj'S ?' delicately reared women actually vie who was amusing herself with settle- Shells v ( A "JLL. . with one another tn earning advance- ment work in the London slums a Responsible SSL ', rl ooke. '' stage of machine shaping. An, iher are stacked up the rough im forms, which she has grownup with the ease and precision , competent machlnisL During all of the long -r,, i these thousands of women who 41 i their lives, had existed as s butterflies, are surrounded with u, implements of the roughest dm tiring labor, and their ears are tfoj i with the grinding and clanking 0! machinery. Formerly ibis wnIj have "put their nerves on edge," ja. haps sent them to a sanatorium, or upon a luxurious yachting trip. s0, they are healthy eyes bnp muscles firm and elastic, and tis; have no "nerves" at alL Some of the work these ladles r form In the munition factories sib. jects them to the danger of palna injuries, and to scars which they itfj bear proudly as long as they Iiu Such a task is the soldering of (is sockets of Ehells. Sometimes bin of melted solder fly from the tooi, landing on hands or face and pr& ducing annoying burns. In otte times this would have bees 1 X calamity; now these scars are tf garded as marks of honor-tit riuBkK victims are proud of them, and rjl nobler reason than the students II I German universities are proud otfa ft scars they gain in their "duels." I Another nsky task allotted a f these deft-fingered ladles Is tie ! ing of shells with bullets Just tis a right number by weight and poariil I melted resin over them to give tis an mass of missiles a certain rigidir; ili'l within their metal case until tis bursting charge of the projected M pr shall send them flying In all dm I tions. Melted resin Is even nors y prone to spatter than Is melted solic and many of these fair faces vS hands, too, will bear the scan 0! "military service." When the war is" over, and tit: country's cause victorious. It niy h imarined with what pride, In the ft-5V ft-5V opened London drawing rooms. AMI fair "veterans" will display tMf honorable wounds. THE patriotic devotion of the women of all classes is becoming becom-ing more and more the great moral example furnished by the European Eu-ropean war. All wars recgrded in history have shown women expending expend-ing their energies to the utmost, while their sacrifices were always incomparably greater than those borne by the fighting men. But it remained for the highest civilisation civilisa-tion to exhibit women of wealth and refinement cheerfully performing the rough and humble tasks of men laborers la-borers in the factories which supply their country's fighters with death-dealing death-dealing Implements. Formerly the lady might polish her war lord's sword and his armor. Historians of the golden age of chivalry chiv-alry delight in describing her allegorical alle-gorical task of buckling on her knight's sword belt. Now she goes prosaically to work from early morning morn-ing till night in factories and machine ma-chine shops where his sword is made and all his other death-dealing tools. The "noblewoman" has become noble in fact. The movement among English titled women to go to work on war munitions has spread with astonishing astonish-ing rapidity. Englishmen who 'regarded 're-garded it at first as almost a pleasantry pleas-antry have been surprised to find that their women are literally in deadly earnest. Women of title, delicate society beauties, mistresses of splendid houses and estates are working away with tools that will misshape and discolor their delicate fingers They handle rough materials and tend machinery that reeks with oil and grime and glory in it. Among the prominent women working at one munitions factory in the north of England are Lady Cole-brooke. Cole-brooke. Lady Gatacre, Lady Gertrude Crawford, Mrs. Greig, wife of the Colonel of the London Scottish regiment; reg-iment; Mrs. Pearson, wife of Colonel Pearson; Mrs. England, Mrs. Charles Suslf, Mrs. Moir, Miss Rosemary Northcroft, Miss Toynbee, Mis3 Buxton Bux-ton and Mrs. Cowan. Lady Colebrook, it may be explained, ex-plained, is the wife of Lord Cole-brooke Cole-brooke and sister of Almeric Paget, who married Pauline Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, of New York. The Pagets belong to the family of the Marquis of Angle-Bey, Angle-Bey, and are at the head of the most distinguished and Influential set in the British nobility. Lady Gatacre Is the wife of a well-known British general. Among those women who urged their sisters to work In munitions factories at an enormous demonstration demonstra-tion in London were Lady Leith, of Kyvie; Lady Glannask. Viscountess Dupplin. Lady Colebrooke. Lady Byron. By-ron. Lady Butlln, Lady Knollys and Princess Dhuleep Singh. Mrs. Em-inellne Em-inellne Pankhurst was the leader of this great demonstration, but it is perhaps more significan t that the aristocratic and titled women who ordinarily do not think of manual labor should be engaged In It. The factory already referred to where so many society women are working was one of the first results of this demonstration. After all. it Is very curious how omen tngaged In Assembling the Farts of Shrapnel Shells They Don't Seem lo Mind the Havoc It Plays with Their Finger Nails. Miss Toynbee and MisB Buxton. Both in the Best London Society Began Their Service to Their Country at This Work. Here .Miss Armilage, Formerly a London Society Slum-Worker, Is Tightening the Cap on a 3-Inch Shell. Many Women Are Thus Employed. Puke of Richmond, Rich-mond, and a very beautiful girl, member of one of the most historic his-toric families In England, is one of thoTnany titled women working Soldering the Fuse-Sockels of 3-Inch Shells a Responsible Task in Which Women Have Been Found Most TrUfiiM-nrth- on munitions. It Is on record that these rich and delicately reared women nctually vie with one another In earning advancement advance-ment in their factory work. They submit to the regular factory rules and ask for no favors. Unlike ordinary ordi-nary workers who seek promotion from one gradn of work to a higher one for the sake of 'he Increased Here a Woman with Forged Shell-Forms Stacked I'p Around Her Is Performing Per-forming the First Stage of Shaping in a Lathe the Task of a Trained Machines!. Lady Gertrude Crawford Has Been Promoted lo This Work in an English Munitions Factory. iie. iiunt Nails. Miss m Society i Work. pay. they strive for efficiency for its own sake and for the sake of their endangered country . For example, it is stated that Lady Gatacre and Lady Colehrooke have gained promotion to the delicate task of operating machinery which turns out fuses for shells. Miss Ethel Armltage, member of an old and wealthy Kn.clish family and a favorite In the best known society, who was amusing herself with settlement settle-ment work in the London slums when the war broke out, is now trusted with the important duty of adjusting the caps on three-Inch shells. She has to handle heavy metal tools, and some of the materials ma-terials In her department are so rough-edged that heavy gloves are an absolute necessity. Miss Toynbee and Miss Buxton, who never before had to lift a finger higher than to summon a servant, were early volunteers at one of the new English munition factories. They were put to work at the simplest "roustabout work." But within a few weeks they were so familiar fa-miliar with three-inch guns and their amftlUhltlon that they were assigned to the exacting task of assembling the pnrls of shrapnel shells. Lady Gertrude Crawford has bo-come bo-come an expert at. the lalho, where forged shell-forms undergo the first |