An Amazon on the Offing
OME few weeks ago, I referred to a little girl who dropped in to see me sometimes. The object of her visit was to protest against the way in which I took her father out on Home Guard duties when she wanted to have him all to herself. I pacified my little friend-Jennifer is her name, by the way-by
promising that I would let her come out and help me boil the billy on one of our outings, Since then I have redeemed my promise and we are now the best of friends. When I asked her how she had enjoyed herself, she replied that she liked it so much that when she grew up she, too, was going to be a soldier, I suggested that perhaps she meant a soldieress or something in the
nature of the Women’s Air Force Auxiliary or the like-but no, she wanted to be a real soldier with a real gun and all the various etceteras. Jennifer is a very smart little miss, for to give point to what she had been saying, she told me that Russian women had been taking their place in this war alongside their menfolk; and if the Russian women could do it, she saw no reason why British women couldn't do the name.-(" Just Women in Wartime," by Major F, H. Lampen, 3YA, November 15.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 5
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232An Amazon on the Offing New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 5
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