The sun., 1918-07-08
1000 FARMERETTES
TILL SOIL IN STATE
And There's Plenty Of Room
for More, With Good Pay
and Food.
VAIL OF MILE. YvETTE
She Regrets Only That the
Grand MOnsoors Are So Far
From the Scene.


the dickens do you mean by planting let
tuce where cabbages should grow? Even
II you have got a name like a Frenchie
what don't belong to you. don't you
!! know the value of heads even II one of
'em is a cabbage head7 : You might
think" grumbled Mabel. lifting her hand
superciliously in the direction of other
farmerettes in the distance. that you
girls never heard of farm outside
those on Chelsea window stills. It's dis
sustin'."
All of which indicates that Mabel Is a
| veteran and an oficer-a foreman to be
| exact-in the land army of 1000 women
who have gone out from New York TO
till the soil for the sake OF Uncle Sam
and his allies at the behest of the
bureau OF labor of the State Industrial
Commission, while Mile. Yvette Is one of
| the rawest OF raw recruits.
ut is of a terrible thing, this war,
nayst parrr unused mademoiselle. re-
clininG gracefully against her hoe. her
overalled legs crossed after the most
approved manner OF the man from out
Kansas way with chin whiskers and
| hayseeds In his eyebrows. TO think OF
all the grand monsoors passing along the
avenue and !. !. Mademo,selle Yvette
| string!ng string beans on Long Island
VOLTA =! She would have shrugged her
shoulders but the shoulder straps Of her
| overalls interfered.
So She Planted Cabbage.
SAY" pursued Mabel relentlessly
| "cut out the grand monsoors rot. All
| the regular monsoors are over In the
country which you have adopted busy at
the unladylike but necessary Job OF stick
| ing bayonet in a Boches ribs-thats
why you are pulling this back to the soil
stun. Do you like lettuce SO much you
can't tell 1t from cabbage?"
NO" snapped mademoiselle, who for.
got for the moment her regular name was
Norah O'Reilly and that UP until a week
modlstes on Fifth avenue. And I'm
gosh darned glad don't. for II I did I'd
eat the blamed stuff, and I hate it.
Whereupon she planted a cabbage where
cabbage ought to grow.
! Like the other twenty-four modistes
from the exclusive shops along the ave-
nue. who are included among the 1000
farmerettes from New York, according
to the announcement OF the State Food
; Commission, Yvette, or rather Norah
| was learning slowly but certainly all the
| intricacies of her new Job undertaken in
the warm flush OF patriotism.
And under the active outdoor life they
are leading they are blossoming like the
plants they are nurturing: their cheeks
are afame with the rudy glow OF health
| and they stride about with a pep and
vitality hitherto unknown in their cave
dwelling experience in Manhattan.
| Besides this city's contribution to the
women's land army there are 1000
others from various sections of the State
among them girls OF every class and
caste: college girls. suffragettes. &C
| tresses. bluestockings and washerwomen
| They are scattered all the way from the
! estates OF Long Islanders who are sc
rich they are ashamed of themselves tc
| the rural regions adjacent TO Buffalo.
More of the Species wanted.
| From eight to nine hours a day they
| toll manfully and at man sized Jobs
! Some there are who manipulate tractors
| with the skill of a fivver driver. while
| others handle planters. cultivators har-
rows and ploughs with all the ease OF a
| Puritan pioneer. II a Puritan pioneer hat
| the two former Celery. succotash-yes
| succotash--cabhage. beans-string and
Observation-Disclosures. raspberries. pota
! toes. tomatoes and onions are as familiar
to them as a hop is to a grasshopper.
| Are the farmers satisfied? They are
| So well, indeed. that in the fruit belts
| around Binghamton. Elmira. Rochestel
| and Buffalo women are in great demand
| Truck farmers OF Long Island also are
sending out urgent calls for the female
OF the species, Wages range from 90 tc
% cents an hour plus board and lodg
| ing.
| While II took a few days for the girl.
who never had seen a bigger farm thar
the one in Union Square to learn tn,
| difference between lettuce aud cabbage
they all carried with them The languag,
OF the soil. acquired In musical comedies
which accounts for Mabels picturesque
attack on Yvette reported hy the FooC
Commissions publicity AGENT.
| There may be absolutely no truth II
the report--press agents have on rare
| (oh very rare) occasions been known L
| elaborate--but IL Is persistently whls
pered along the avenue that Yvette anC
| the other twenty-four modistes like thei
I new work 10 we'll that they have accu
| INFLATED inspiration for new styles mex
| fall Skirts, II is said, will he shorte,
great applause from the masculine ele
meno and hats will he built along tn,
lines made famous by SunbOnnet Sue.