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Show WAR WORK FROM all sides comes the news i that thc railroads are employing women more and more. The first woman so far as is known to be connected con-nected with the actual operation o trains is a Baltimorean, who has been made a car inspector. Her job is to tap die wheels and find out by thc sound whether there is any defect Other women are being employed by ; the same line as crossing inspectors and as mechanics in the shops. Women arc also being used as engine cleaners and oilers. In Cana they arc working at the painting of cars. These women all don overalls and go to their work with thc same energy and matter-of-factness as thc men beside whom they arc employed. In a short while die novelty will wear off, even to the onlooker, on-looker, and in the many varieties o railroad work open to women from which she is not debarred because of physical limitations she is going to bo an increasing factor. |