Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14676-h.htm or 14676-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/6/7/14676/14676-h/14676-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/6/7/14676/14676-h.zip) WOMEN AND WAR WORK by HELEN FRASER G. Arnold Shaw New York 1918 "No easy hopes or lies Shall bring 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." [Illustration: A FEW SHELLS] DEDICATED TO MOTHER, ANNE, AND THE BOYS. CONTENTS Chapter 1. THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN 2. ORGANIZATION AND ITS PITFALLS 3. HOSPITALS--RED CROSS--V.A.D. 4. BRINGING BLIGHTY TO THE SOLDIERS--HUTS, COMFORTS, ETC. 5. WOMAN-POWER FOR MAN-POWER 6. WOMEN AND MUNITIONS 7. THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 8. "THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY" 9. WAR SAVINGS--THE MONEY BEHIND THE GUNS 10. FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION 11. THE W.A.A.C.'s 12. WAR AND MORALS 13. WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE FOR WOMEN 14. RECONSTRUCTION ILLUSTRATIONS A FEW SHELLS (Frontispiece) MISS EDITH CAVELL DR. ELSIE INGLIS FIRST AMBULANCE ON DUTY IN THE FIRST ZEPPELIN RAID "SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE" CLEANING A LOCOMOTIVE WOMEN AS CARRIAGE CLEANERS WINDOW CLEANERS STEAM ROLLER DRIVER TRAINING WOMEN AS AEROPLANE BUILDERS RIVETTING ON BOILERS FACING BOILER BLUE FLANGES ROUGH TURNING JACKET FORGING OF 6-POUNDER HOTCHKISS GUN HOW TO DRESS FOR MUNITION MAKING BACK TO THE LAND WOMEN TACKLE A STRONG MAN'S PROBLEM SIX REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES "FOR YOUR CHILDREN" BOOK MARKS ISSUED BY THE N.W.S.C. W.A.A.C.'s ON THE MARCH WOMEN OF THE RESERVE AMBULANCE POLICE WOMEN FOREWORD "Our War Loan from England"--That is the heading under which were grouped the nine lectures given by Miss Helen Fraser at Vassar College. England has borrowed a billion or so of dollars from us, but the obligation is not all her way. The moral strength of our cause is immeasurably increased by her alliance, and the spectacle of a great democracy organizing itself for complete unity in a world crisis is worth an incalculable amount to us. Such a vision Miss Fraser has brought to her wider public among the women of America in this notable book. Of her personal influence let me quote again from the Vassar students' newspaper: