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Feminine Gender of Preparedness 





At left, women seated 

 at desks learning the 

 routine of the field tel- 

 egrapher's work. This 

 was easy compared 

 with retiring at nine- 

 thirty o'clock and 

 throwing out of camp a 

 vender of bathtubs 



Below, one of the ex- 

 ercises that formed a 

 regular part of the 

 day's work. Two 

 weeks of this and the 

 women soldiens were 

 considered "fit" 



To demon- 

 strate that 

 getting ready 

 for war is not 

 a man's job 

 alone, two 

 hundred wom- 

 en from New 

 York, New 

 Jersey, Massa- 

 chusetts and 

 many other 

 States have 

 been camping 

 since May first 

 in quasi -mili- 

 tary fashion at 

 Chevy Chase, 

 within sight of 

 the dome of 

 the Capitol. 

 From reveille 

 to taps, the 

 latter at nine- 

 thirty o'clock, 



each day is crammed full of drills, setting up 

 exercises, lectures, classes in care of the sick and 

 wounded and Red Cross work. The soldierettes 

 are routed out of bed at six-thirty in the morn- 

 ing, after a night on a hard cot, with only fifteen 

 minutes to reach the mess tent for a breakfast 

 of ham and eggs, boiled potatoes and prunes. 

 There are no maids and no morning porcelain 

 tubs. Instead there are galvanized water buck- 

 ets and agateware wash-basins. The women 

 members of the Navy League are the sponsors 

 of the camp and the formal name given it is the 

 National Service School 





In the hospital tent shown above, 



the women were taught to make 



bed socks, operating robes and 



other hospital garments 



To the left, women marching in 



their long khaki skirts, army 



shirts, or rather waists, boots 



and broad-brimmed hats 



