WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 11

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from Page 10)'

Christmas Dinner at the Camp. For many days past the members ot the Mayoress 1 Countess of.' Liverpool Committee, the Military Hospital Guild, and many friends ana helpers have been working for the Christmas dinner at Trentham and May Morn Camps, and now. that it is over they will have associated with its recollections the fact that it was a huge success at both places. The arrangements'were admirably made, and the warmth of their reception by the soldiers was a thing to be remembered. . Lycopodium, foliage, flowers, etc., decorated the hutments, and all' the tables displayed the red, white, and blue. In all about five hundred ladies went ovjt from the city to help with the dinner; and these were distributed among, the hutments at Trentham, each head having her quota of assistants, and. the same arrangement' was practically carried out at May Morn, where Mrs. Fossette was in charge. It was hard to say who gained, the ijre.it- ■ est pleasure from the entertainment,'the .soldiers who were, enjoying the citizens' hospitality or those who were administering it. . The utmost gaiety and enjoyment prevailed everywhere, and all the little inconveniences i.th'at necessarily existed to a certain degree were only the. occasions for a display, of amusing 'ngenuity. As an instance of the way in which such huge quantities of food had to be dealt with, it might be mentioned that the plum puddings were boiled in tanks and"were literally fished out with pitchforks. Their, Excellencies the Governor and the . Countess of Liverpool, the Prime Minister, Mrs. and Miss Massey, and the Mayor aiid Mayoress, were among the visitors to the camps, and at May Morn, where Mr. Massey, Mrs., and Miss Massey, and the Mayor and Mayoress .went later, tho.Mayoress made a speech which met with a great, reception. At this camp the dinner was entirely in the open, tables having been placed at the bottom of a small valley with .picturesque surroundings. The soldiers' cheers of farewell as' the party left -the.- camps were cheers to, be long remembered. Women as Shell-makers. Considering the skill which, women j are attaining in munitions, ;it would seem rash indeed to name any limit to their powers, states a London correspondent. An engineering correspond-. ent of one of the London dailies has paid tlie following wonderful tribute to their work :—• , ■ , "Engineering employers," he writes, "were quite willing to put ivomen on to fuse-making and. light electrical work, but to employ them on heavy . machine tools was quite another question.. The experiment was .tried, however, in a comparatively small way in one or two factories in tlie Midlands and on the Clyde. In every case the restilts liavo far surpassed expectations. The women did their work with an exactitude, conscientiousness, and thoroughness that could not bo excelled. The.v used their brains as well.-as their muscles in carrying, out the work in the machine shops, and were not slow at suggesting detail improvements which might still further increase tlie output. . In fact, in one factory where tlie workers consisted entirely of women, -.the'.•output' of the maciiir.es lias far surpassed that for which they'were designed, and one result 'has- been that the owners , of the factory have been able to . achieve a larger output than they had expected. . . So universally successful have been the results of employing women fa shell-making that employers need 'now have no .doubts about",the wisdom, of following this admirable lead." In conclusion the writer remarks "Admittedly it was a bold—some said it was a boneless—experiment, but it has succeeded brilliantly. The women are paid at the same rate as men, and receive willing tuition froni those'whom their patriotic action liberates for other important national duties."