English Women Doing their **Bit 



In the circle is a 

 girl who is doing 

 her part as a 

 bricklayer. She 

 does only the 

 tasks that re- 

 quire no skilled 

 labor; but that 

 fact does not les- 

 sen the manual 

 exertion required 



Another girl who 

 is helping to 

 keep the roads 

 in repair in the 

 country. The 

 heavy work is 

 done by men, 

 but the girl may 

 do much by 

 merely filling up 

 the many worn 

 spots with 

 crushed rock 



A modern ferry woman. Among the 

 men's tasks assumed by the British 

 women is that of operating a row- 

 boat ferry across a tidal river 



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