Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-10

sation and aroused more or less sus- picion by bringing with her many trunks killed with canvases, paints. and souvenirs of foreign travel, as we'll as queer garments that later were to cause sensation in Vest vile. The odd garments were English riding brooches, which were to be worn in the most extraordinary pas time ever indulged in by their owner.
 A days stay on the farm revealed labor shortage. The oats were ready for harvesting and it was impossible to hire any extra ~help." Five or six families owped a thresher and other machinery in common and they had revived the old system of cooperation that results in what used to be called "bees," all concentrating on field until the grain had been safely garn- cred.
 For years Mrs. Eagerly had been !, interSted in studying labor problems. She had theories about ones relation to the land and the situation which confronted her seemed to make a distinct appeal.
 She decided to volunteer as a hand" The farmer to whom she made the offer of assistance accepted her on probation, for he was becom- ing accustomed to the necessity that made his wife and daughters valuable aids in the lighter forms of field la Dor, and the artist who is tall, straight and athletic, appeared to be promis ing as helper.
 It was when the new "hand" report l ed for work in the field that her at tire caused a sensation. Mrs. Eagerly wore her riding brooches, her riding boots and sleeveless jacket. The ] members of the five families who had assembled for the "bee" looked ask ance at the costume, for the regular ! farmetto boomers had not been in- troduced into that part of the State. ! The artist was assigned to work with a girl school teacher, daughter of one of the farmers. She describes her experiences with enthusiasm.
 1 "I was told to take up two bundles of oats, carrying one under each arm l with the heads pointed in front of me and to stack them carefully, six in a row, then one on each end and an ex- tra one on top to cover them and shed the rain." she said, when she re- ONI AlCu CO w 1OL q 1CW udyS. By the time I had finished two shocks l was warm and tired. The worst of it was that l did not make good with the farmer at first, for my stacks ere not precise and neat. l had to do one over and by noon 1 was ready to stop, but 1 dared not be quitter. After few days, however, managed to become more or less hardened, but I want to testify that farm work is not child's play. As tonic. it is truly wonderful and con- fess that my appetite would have alarmed anyone interested in food conservation.
 Every day we worked on differ ent farm and ate at different farm house and had the privilege of get ting we'll acquainted with the people. who are a fine lot of Americans. I liked them so we'll that I am to enter tain all my comrades about twenty five of them-at the county fair in September
 ''It was great experience that sent me away from Indiana with realization of what the patriotism of the farmers means in the war All are doing the utmost possible to increase the food supply and I felt it privil- ege to work with them. You see, am an Anglo-American. or perhaps I should say, an America Anglican, for w;A born in California and reared in England, where they always think me decidedly American.
 "Since 1 have been working here in the United States have come into contact with all classes of men and women but find always among those who live the simpler lives and labor hard for their bread and butter the sort of Americanism that will sustain i the nation through any crisis. "l want to pay tribute to what the Department of Labor is doing in the war. Its many wise and practical provisions for meeting the problems arising from war conditions promise much for the reconstruction period"