The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-28
FR|AGETS Of
ENGLAND DOING
VERY FINE WORK
Votes-fo Women Propaganda
Abandoned and All Busy to
Relieve Distress.
fCorrespondence Of The Associated
Press).

correspondence of The Associated
Pressl.
LONDON, Oct. 28.-The women
suffragists are doing fine work in re-
lieying distress caused by the war.
The yoLes-for-women propaganda
has been abandoned completely for
the present and many of the organl-
zations are placing all of their re-
sources at the service OF needy wo-
men In London alone there are
some $4,000 women WHO were earn
ing their own living before the war
but who have since become destitute
many facing starvation.
The Active Service League OF the
National Union of Women's Suffrage
Societies, which includes in Its ranks
over 900 societies which have been
working for suffrage by constitution
bureau in its Offices in a shop. on Par
liment street, and the branch omces
( throughout the country are also filled
with suffragists working for their
country. The workers distinguish
themselves by wearing UNIFORM
consisting of dark green coat and
skirt. green felt hats. with badges
and ties of red and green-tne
Unions colors.
The assistance of German women
and girls stranded in London is In
cluded in the relief program.
The union has had many offers OF
hospitality for stranded people, and
many private school mistresses have
4 offered free education for daughters
81 officers killed in action. Several
workrooms have been started where
out-of-work women are paid 10 sh1ll-
ings a week of 40 hours-the Trade
Union rate-for making garments
which are given to destitute people.
Many pathetic cases have been aid
ed. A British girl, chfldren's nurse
in Paris, arrived there after four
vaar.s engagement in Chile. She left
Paris when siege was threatened,
leaving her luggage behind. and be-
fore the Union found her she had
been living for three days in London
on bread and butter and tea.
one woman offered hospitality to
a Belgian for ..one month certain
explaining that her small income had
droped one third and she did not
know whether at the end of one
month it would drop altogether or
not. She was anxious while she
could afford it to have SO great
privilege as that of giving shelter to
a Belgian.
Another woman who was at small
inn received two Belgian children,
who were taken to her by suffra-
gist in a motorcar. Suddenly the
Children began to shout for Joy for
they recognized In the hostess OF the
& inn their mother from whom they
had been separated during the war. !.
An Englishwoman doctor, married
to a German doctor, has suddenly had
the whole of her income cut OFF as her
husband, having to live under the re-
stTict,cns for aliens. has lost all his
practice.
So 500 a year and was discharged by
his paper enlisted, as he was penni-
less. II the wife gets all his pay and
her War Office allowance she will
only have about $500 a week.
At Manchester work is being found
In a warehouse for 500 women and
penny dinners are provided. At
Southampton the Art Gallery has
been turned into a women's work
room In Dublin the suffra gfsts by
getting an army contract for jam
factory where lot of girls are en-
pIoyed saved it from closing down.