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Show BRITISH WOMEN IN WAR WORK Gentle Sex Is Certainly Doing Its Share in the Great Contest Being Waged for Liberty. With a gay laugh, the pit-brow girU bend to their task over the picking belt. Their duty consists of picking out and casting aside all the "dirt" and rubbish from among the coal which moves slowly along in front of them on the belt on its way to the shoots into the waiting wagons below. Splendidly strong, hefty lasses they are, too, in their dark-blue overall and caps. "Quite equal to the men at thi job," says the foreman of the screening screen-ing house, where all the coal is carefully care-fully screened into different sizes, from huge lumps to tiny pieces no larger than a very small beau. We wander from here into the lamp room, where the miners' lamps nra cleaned, trimmed and filled. Here, again, the girls do the work, with the aid of machines in which rapidly revolving re-volving brushes play n large part. As the miners come out of the pi they hand their lamps to the girls through a little window in the lamp-room, lamp-room, receiving them again next day, cleaned and tilled, ou their return to work. Sawing the timber into lengths for pit-props to support the roof in the mine is another branch of labor undertaken under-taken by women and girls. Thus do the girls assist the miner to fulfill his great task of supplying the allied nations with the coal which i Marshal Foch assures us is "the key to victory." Thus do they help to light ! his way and to keep him safe. Cupid, too. Is busy nt the pits today. Many a knight of the Silver Tadge returns to find a bride among the bonnie lassies on the pit-brow. London Mail. |