WOMEN WAR WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 24292, 5 September 1942, Page 8

WOMEN WAR WORKERS

6. MODERN MILKMAIDS In the cold grey light before the dawn, when most of ns lie warm and cosy in our beds, the milkmen begin their rounds, and now women have joined their ranks. At 3,30 a.m. they report for duty, wet or fine, and despite their early they are always cheerful and seem to like the work. “ It is great,” said one of these modern milkmaids-to a ‘Star’ reporter yesterday, “ to see the dawn break every morning—never the same and always beautiful. We pever tiro of watching all the colours ns they flood the east and then fade away us light comes. Everything is so quiet that ordinary sounds like the roaring of the sea, the cry of a baby, a shunting train, or a dog barking take on new significance. Then (he city begins to wake. The earliest workers to appear arc the women who clean offices, often starting work at 4 a.in. Then come the paper boys, the early workmen, the factory girls or mill workers, and snddenlv the streets are alive again.” '<• thincdin must be n moral city,” she added, ” for during my live months on the milk run I have only once seen a couple walking home. And they were evidently unused to such hours, as -he was creeping round the house and peeping in to sec if all was clear,”