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Private Hilda—National Asset 
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poster said it took twenty-five million pin-cushions of the blackberry patch, 
pounds of food a. week to feed the the hazards of the twelve-foot picking 
French soldiers around Verdun alone, in the cherry trees—where you might 
two or three fields didn’t seem much, break your neck, but you’re more likely 
But the Irishman who took twenty Ger- to spill a ten-quart basket, which would 
mans single-handed didn’t end the war be far worse!—to say nothing of routine 
either,, and yet the. King gave him a work such as pulling beets, hoeing, and 
Victoria Cross for it. extracting curly dock from an unwilling 
Hilda s initiation came with ten soil. Scores of the girls, however, could 
hours’ hoeing on the eventful day after show a record like this. Emily and 
she and Dot got off at Grimsby. She Kitty ventured right out into the sun- 
had once upon a historic time been per- baked fields day after day and pitched 
suaded into hoeing half an hour in the hay—with a temperature that climbed 
garden, back home, and she’d talked onto the top shelf and stayed there for 
about it all summer. At the end of her a week. And that doesn’t mean the 
war-time ten hours, Saturday night just upper eighties such as the New York 
dropped out of the brassy sky and turn- papers complained of. It means any- 
bled her into bed. 
“I knew then why God had made 
Sunday,” she remarked afterward 
was on account of Saturday.” 
After you’ve spent a day hoeing, al- 
thing from ninety-five to sunstroke. 
These girls worked for five relatives 
“It of their original employer. At the end 
of the season, Mr. K., who reckoned 
them as his personal discoveries, wist- 
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most anything else looks easy except fully . offered them a cottage rent free 
perhaps spreading fertilizer, which was for the winter if they’d only, only prom- 
the introductory ceremony provided by ise him their time for next year! 
a nearby farmer for his. recruits. Other farmers have also resorted to 
“But they did it,” Hilda told me as bribery and corruption. Mr. X., of 
we picked together in a peach tree. Hilda’s district, bought a special Ford 
“You see we’d heard about two girls truck for his corps of six. Not only 
at the Winona camp that were out tying should they climb in shouting at six- 
grape vines when a thunder storm came thirty in the morning. They should keep 
on. Everybody went in, even the farm the car at the camp and pack it with 
boss. Everybody that is except the their bathing-suited and bewitching 
girls. They said they guessed if boys selves in the moonlight, so that they 
in the trenches could stand a German could cover the long mile to the lake 
barrage, girls in a vineyard could' chance with comfort and despatch. This man 
lightning. So they stuck. By and by declared he would have saved a thou- 
the boss came back and tied, too, with sand dollars on raspberries alone if he 
rivers running off his hat. Every time had had the National Service Division 
we have a hard job and feel like quitting the year before. And by the way, do 
we. just. say, ‘Remember the girls at you know what he thinks that “N. S. 
Winona.!’” D.” stands for? It’s “Never Say Die!” 
Hilda’s face grew solemn with the There is an occasional girl who lias 
strange, shy. solemnity of that high- been allowed to gratify on the farm that 
souled child-idealist that dies in most of innate love for machinery which has 
us by the time we get out of college, driven many a volunteer munition-in- 
She moved the big peach basket on its spector to seize a sledge-hammer and 
wire hook. ram shrapnel on a rough-turning ma- 
“You won’t laugh, will you?” she chine. Nedra is an eighteen-year-old 
said appealingly, “but I call it ‘the tra- college recruit at the Vittoria Camp, 
dition of the service.’ ” She never hitched a horse in her life 
I hat service had many such traditions till last summer, but she now counts as 
by. the time 1917 pulled its winter bed- a post-graduate director of all the farm 
quilt over the tired fields. There were machinery there is. 
Emily and Kitty, for instance, down at 
the Re-a-wh Camp which is run by How Many Were There? 
the W. C. 1. U. near London, Ontario. Altogether, Miss Harvey and her as- 
They were English girls, both of them, sistants put over a thousand girls on 
Kitty being an ex-motorette of Greater the land last summer, and the Bureau 
Londons tramcar seivice. The pair estimated that half as many more have 
went into action at strawberry time, been stirred to go by the example of 
after which they dared the mobilized the signed-up recruits. This is proba¬ 
bly well under the mark, as the Depart¬ 
ment of Education puts the school girl 
figures alone at two thousand. In addi¬ 
tion to this, and closely related as to 
cause, there are the five thousand boys 
under military age that added their serv¬ 
ices to those of their sisters. 
At the beginning of the season- it was 
.estimated that 10,000 extra “hands” 
would be needed for Ontario farms. 
The Organization of Resources Com¬ 
mittee, which is General Headquarters 
for the whole movement, tells us that 
9,000 men, women, boys and girls had 
been placed by June. The call still 
went out, however. Some of the re¬ 
cruits had nothing but a two or three 
weeks holiday to give. Others—very 
few—couldn’t stand the push of a ten- 
hour day. A small percentage were just 
plain slackers. The ranks were thinned 
but they were filled again. 
Meantime the Government printing 
press backed up the movement with 
learned treatises on “The Rate of Pre¬ 
cooling Fruit in Different Styles of 
Packages,” and “The Use of Brine Tank 
Refrigerator Cars for Fruit Shipment.” 
This was for the big farmers like Hil¬ 
da’s employer, who get their 60,000 or 
80,000 baskets of peaches from their 
tractor-cultivated orchards. The indi 
vidual householder wasn’t forgotten, 
however, and everywhere that a group 
of women could be got together, a 
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The costume for farm work 
must be practical first of all. 
This one can now be pur¬ 
chased in the shops 
