The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-17

or Fish Manure on a nice hot day?
Some of the things they put in the
land is awful. The smells enough to
knock you over. And we have to go
on tossing it aout for hours and hours.
oh, it's beasly job; but if you keep
thinking of Thomas Atkins, Esq, it's
not SO bad. OF course, it knocks some
girls clean out of business, but most
of US have got used to it now. We
don't like it; we prefer eau de Col
ogne; but we stick it. Oh, you can
stick anything if you've a good heart
and a strong pair of shoulders.
A Strenuous Life.
These girls pillow and dig. Except
for the lifting of great weights there
is nothing a man does on a farm which
they cannot do. The most tremend-
Gus thing of all they do, in my hum
BILE opinion, is to keep hoeing for a
whole day under a broiling sun.
In the fruit-picking season they are
up at 3.45 in the morning, and they
work till six in the evening. Their
reward for 5 hours hard work, back
breaking work, is four shillings. They
don't complain.
1t takes the highest courage to stick
at this kind of work. Most of the
Land Lassies crave for a mixed farm,
where there is stock to take care of,
and their success in this particular
has been very marked. Young ami
mails do far better under the gentle
care of women than under the rough
riding attention of men. Many of the
Land Lassies will stick to this kind of
work after the war.
The editor of their magazine, the
"Landswoman," published under the
auspices of the Board of Agriculture,
tells me that she receives the most
pathetic letters from lonely girls
working on distant farms where they
never encounter anyone of equal ed
ucation. Some of these girls send
money-orders and ask the editor to
buy them silk under-garments with
pink ribbons, because when they get
out of breeches and CATERS they want
to have the telling that they are still
feminine. Others send her poems OF
considerable merit. Others ask for
books. Others pour out their hearts
to her, saying how lonely they are
| how they crave for sympathy, and
how they long for something to hap
| pen. But she tells, me she has never
received single letter (and she has
received many hundreds) which
grumble at the work or which ev-
presses the writer's desire to get out
of the Land Army.
Indeed, it seems to me that these
Land Lasses stand for the sacred
cause of the Allies in a peculiarly sig.
nificant fashion. They are, to begir
with, the emancipated women of e
true democracy - not the household
chattles which one encounters all ovel
Germany. Then they are women who
ennoble the idea of work, who have
broken with all the old snobberies
who would set their hands to any NOR.
tai thing so long as they could helI
their country. And then they are brave
with bravery which is newborn will
this war of nations. They represent
that which alone can give us victory
| endurance. 1t is a fight between the
soul of autocracy and the soul of de
mocracy.
These girls are as truly helping the
Allied Democracies to conquer the
menace of Prussian tyranny as an!
soldier who faces the German hordes
Autocracy is up against these girls
The submarine may sink our fooC
ships day after day, but this littl,
body with mighty heart will neve
strike it's flag to the German pirat,
so long as the girls of England cal
drive a pillow across its ancient fields
(By the International News Bureau
! Inc, Boston, Mass.)