No easy hopes or lies Shall lead us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of Body, Will, and Soul. There is but one task for all— For each one life to give. Who stands if Freedom fall? Who dies if England live? Rudyard Kipling in "For All We Have and Are."   Chapter Page 1. THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN 19 2. ORGANIZATION AND ITS PITFALLS 35 3. HOSPITALS—RED CROSS—V.A.D. 53 4. BRINGING BLIGHTY TO THE SOLDIERS—HUTS, COMFORTS, ETC. 73 5. WOMAN-POWER FOR MAN-POWER 91 6. WOMEN AND MUNITIONS 109 7. THE PROTECTION

Your hearts are lifted up, your hearts That have foreknown the utter price, Your hearts burn upward like a flame Of splendour and of sacrifice. For you too, to battle go, Not with the marching drums and cheers, But in the watch of solitude And through the boundless night of fears. And not a shot comes blind with death, And not a stab of steel is pressed Home, but invisibly it tore, And entered first a woman's breast. And not a shot comes blind with death, And not a stab of steel is pressed Home,

"The more they gazed, the more their wonder grew That one small head could carry all she knew." There are people who declare that the winning of this war depends on organization alone. That is palpably untrue. Good organization can do much. The greatest thing in all organizations is the living flame that makes grouping real—the selfless spirit of service that the fighting man possesses and that is beyond all words of praise. Talk to a soldier or a sailor, realize how he thinks and feels about hi

"Come, ye blessed of my Father; I was sick and ye visited me." —MATT., Chap. 25. "A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good Heroic womanhood." —H.W. LONGFELLOW, "To Florence Nightingale." When war broke out on August 4, 1914, probably the only women in our country who knew exactly how they could help, and would be used in the war, were our nurses in the Navy and Army nursing services. In the Army, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service had

"It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there." "Cheero." "Blighty" is Home, the British soldiers in India's corruption of the Hindustanee, and Blighty is a word we all know well now. The full records of this are not easy to give—so much has been done. Perhaps the simplest way is to begin with the soldier at the training camp and follow him through his soldier's existence. The first work lies in giving him comforts, and the women of our country still knit a good deal and in the

"She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar. "She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. "Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come." —PROV., Chap. 31. The first result of the outbreak of war for women was to throw thousands of them out of work. Nobody knew—not even the ablest financial and commercial men—just what a great European war was going to mean

"For all we have and are, For all our children's fate— Rise up and meet the war, The Hun is at the gate. "Comfort, content, delight, The ages' slow-bought gain, Have shrivelled in a night, Only ourselves remain. "Though all we knew depart, The old commandments stand, In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand." "Though all we knew depart, The old commandments stand, In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand." —RUDYARD KIPLING. "Hats off to the Women of Britain!"—Si

"Are our faces grave, and our eyes intent? Is every ounce that is in us bent On the uttermost pitch of accomplishment? Though it's long and long the day is. Ah! we know what it means if we fool or slack; —A rifle jammed—and one comes not back; And we never forget—it's for us they gave. And so we will slave, and slave, and slave, Lest the men at the front should rue it. Their all they gave, and their lives we'll save, If the hardest of work can do it;— Though it's long and long the day is. " If t

"If it were not for the women, agriculture would be at an absolute standstill on many farms in England and Wales today." — President of the Board of Agriculture. The Land Army of Women, which now numbers over 258,300 whole and part-time workers, has done splendid work. For some years before the war women had been very little used on the land in certain parts of England and Wales. In Scotland and in some of the English counties there had always been, and still were, quite fair numbers of women on

"You cannot have absolute equality of sacrifice in a war. That is impossible. But you can have equal readiness to sacrifice from all. There are hundreds of thousands who have given their lives, there are millions who have given up comfortable homes and exchanged them for a daily communion with death. Multitudes have given up those whom they loved best. Let the nation as a whole place its comforts, its luxuries, its indulgences, its elegances, on a national altar, consecrated by such sacrifices a

"The whole country ought to realise that we are a beleaguered city." — The President of the Board of Agriculture. "If you have any belief in the cause for which thousands of your fellow-countrymen have laid down their lives, you will scrape and scrape and scrape, you will go in old clothes, and old boots, and old ties until such a mass of treasure be garnered into the coffers of the Government as to secure at the end of all this tangle of misery a real and lasting settlement for Europe." — The P

"Now every signaller was a fine Waac, And a very fine Waac was she—e." "Soldier and Sailor, too." The Waacs is the name we all know them by and shall, it seems, continue to. It will have to go into future dictionaries beside Anzac. The deeds of the Anzacs in Gallipoli and France are immortalised in many records—magnificently in John Masefield's "Gallipoli"—an epic in its simplicity. The work of the Waacs is the work of support and substitution and its records only begin to be made. The Women's A

"Evils which have been allowed to flourish for centuries cannot be destroyed in a day. If the nation really wishes to be freed from the consequences of prostitution it must deal with the sources of prostitution by a long series of social, educational, and economic reforms. The ultimate remedy is the acceptance of a single standard of morality for men and women, and the recognition that man is meant to be the master and not the slave of his body. There are thousands of men both in the army and ou

"Give her of the fruits of her lands and let her own words praise her in the gates." —PROV., Chap 31. The war has done already, with us, such great things for women, so many of them so naturally accepted now, that it is almost difficult to get back in thought, and realize where we stood when it broke out. General Smuts, in one of his speeches, said, "Under stress of great difficulty practically everything breaks down ultimately, and the only things that survive are really the simple human feelin

"The tumult and the shouting dies— The captains and the Kings depart— Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts; be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget." —RUDYARD KIPLING. "We shall not cease from mental fight, Nor shall our sword sleep in our hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green and pleasant land." —W. BLAKE. And what is to come after? The first and the last and the greatest thing to do is to win the war and to get the righ

American Women's War Relief Fund, 123 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1. Association of Infant Consultation and Schools for Mothers, 4 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1. British Women's Hospital, Bond Street, London, W. 1. Glove Waistcoat Society, 75 Chancery Lane, E.C. 4. Ministry of Food, Mrs. Pember Reeves, Mrs. C.S. Peel, Grosvenor House, W. 1. National Federation of Women's Workers. Women's Trade Union League, 34 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C. 1. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Scotti

A significant proof of the growth of the Association's influence in recent years is afforded by the fact that our Secretary, Mr. G. Arnold Shaw, has been enabled to enter the publishing field successfully. We reverse thus the plan of campaign of the ordinary lecture bureau which is usually impressed with the possibilities of a man who has won fame as an author rather than as a lecturer; we discover that a man is a first rate lecturer and then we proceed to make him an author—also of the front ra

12mo, 256 pages, $1.25 net This work, which has had a large sale in England, will be invaluable when the terms of peace begin to be seriously discussed. Every European people is reviewed and the evolution of the different nationalities is carefully explained. Particular reference is made to the so-called "Irredentist" lands, whose people want to be under a different flag from that under which they live. The colonizing methods of all the nations are dealt with, and especially the place in the sun

This volume of essays on Great Writers by the well-known lecturer was the first of a series of three books with the same purpose as the author's brilliant lectures; namely, to enable one to discriminate between the great and the mediocre in ancient and modern literature: the other two books being "One Hundred Best Books" and "Suspended Judgments." Within a year of its publication, four editions of "Visions and Revisions" were printed—an extraordinary record considering that it was only the secon

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This list is designed to supply the need of persons who wish to acquire a general knowledge of such books in world-literature as are at once exciting and thrilling to the ordinary mind and written in the style of the masters. It recognizes the fact that modern people are most interested in modern books; but it recognizes also that such books, to be worthy of this interest, must uphold the classical tradition of manner and form....