LADIES’ PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 16 August 1916, Page 3

LADIES’ PATRIOTIC COMMITTEE

'To Thk Kmtob Stratford I’oht.l Sir, —Since ttio annual meeting of i above on Monday last .1 have, looked in vain for some abler pen than mine ’to say through your columns what the sterner sex think of the efforts of these ladies. I can only conclude, that the menfolk arc highly satisfied with the result—they know it would work out alright with the ladies at, the helm, in fact, they took it for granted. But Sir, are we not apt to take too much for granted, and so in great measure lose sight of the sJowly, plodding, persevering effort put forth by the Indies of the Committee, their sub-committees anti helpers generally? Week in, week out, they are to he found stocking, up their little shop with produce and articles for sale, and their tearooms with dainty morsels and the cup that cheers. Many members of the public hand in their contributions of cakes, vegetables, and what not, rn d if this letter serves no other purpose than to awaken the interest of ibosc who have not up to the present sent n their little bit for the Patriotic Mart and Tea Rooms it will have, lone good service. Then, again, bore is the question of lending a mud. One sees the same smiling aces very very frequently—giving fieri impression that the real live workers arc only a small band—the

I next' turn soon comes round. This, I contend, should not be—there are enough ladies in and round about Stratford to make the work light. Why, only the other day a lady (not many miles from Broadway, one well ohlo to support a patriotic movement of this kind) was canvassed : for “something for the shop or tearooms” and at once agreed ,tn make up something nice and deliver it hoi self, “but” she asked, “whore is your shop? I often hear about it but don’t know where it is.”—Nuf sed! In conclusion allow me to express my keen appreciation of the efforts these' ladies are making. Plenty there were who said “only a nine days wonder—t’will soon die out,” but the shop and the tearooms are still in evidence, still going strong. Those ladies' are “dogged,” and they know, and we all know “its dogged as does it.” Thanking you for space.-—1 am. ■etc,. - ' TINE; OF THE STERX'EU SEX. q..;., ;; . V-