wet "A Poor Slight Woman"
This photograph, taken eleven years ago, shows Myrra Zeidenberg, Russia's first woman aeroplane mechanic, hard at work. Daughter of a workman in the Kiev stockyards, she was trained at the Military Aviation Technical School following her admission to the Society for Aviation and Chemistry. What is Myrra dottg now?—helping, one hopes, to surprise the Nazis. tension—often temporary—in the environment. Tt is certainly not ch acteristic of the country as a whole.
'A different problem is raised for several thousand more girls for the Auxiliary Territorial Service, The ATS, has been a little jealous of the W.A.A.F s. who have got most of the limelight, while a quite untrue idea has got about that the A.T\S. are mostly cooks and charwoman. As a matter of fact the A-T.S. girls are trained to do the most varied /jobs—as bricklayers and fire-fighters, to operate difücult instruments such as predictors. and generally to act as real auxiliaries to the fighting men. Most of the girls "make good" very quickly, but one hears that three classes are specially preferred. Char-women. for their muscular development (quite á la Russe) are specially useful in handling and cleaning heavy casting in machinery shops. Hairdressers, whose hands and fingers become sensitive in their own trade, "catch on" quickly in precision and fine instrument work, And barmaids excel in mechanical jobs, This la discovery seems to cause surprise, But why should it? Have they not been operating beer engines all their lives?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.