ways". puts it, under the influence of Cape Turk and. Point Seraglio—but everyone knows what they did in' the end, This time they were, so to speak, springing to arms before the bugle had sounded. When the. war broke-out, Lady Reading said, 370,000 women had already enrolled in the Women's Volunteer Service and today most of the women's corps are timing away applicants.
There are, of course, some who excite derision and even irritation. eminent ladies who love to get into uniforms and look important.. In times of peace they crowd onto platforms at public meetings and compete for bouquets. I heard. -one woman recently exclaim that it seemed impossible for any woman to wear a uniform without an outsize head to "match. Well, there are plenty of men like them.
But the vast majority are doing their work quietly and zealously
into, their time™\and its sometimes unpleasant nature. No doubt the occupation is a relief in the anxiety as
bands, sons or brothers. But fundamentally. there is the real desire gE
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