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 girls 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 overalls and ln caps quite equal to the men at tills this job says the foreman of the screen ing house where all the coal Is carefully screened into different sizes from huge lumps to tiny pieces no larger than a very small bean we wander from here into the lamp room where the miners lamps are cleaned trimmed and filled here aga aaen 1 i n the girls do the work wit with 11 the th a I 1 lid aid of machines in which rapidly revolving brushes play a 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 receiving them again ne next at day cleaned and filled on their return to war work sawing the timber into lengths for pit props to support the root roof in the mine la Is another branch of labor undertaken by women and girls thus do the girls assist the miner miller to fulfill his great a task of supplying the allied nations with the coal which marshal foch assures us is the rcy key to victory thus do they help to light ills his way and to keep him safe cupid too is busy at fhe pits today many a knight of the silver badge returns to find a bride among the bonnie lassies classies on the pit brow london mail |