WOMAN GOES RECRUITING.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 91, 23 May 1916, Page 8

WOMAN GOES RECRUITING.

Fl'X IX iSYDXEY. A tall woman, whose hat wa.s bobbing about at a rak'sli angle, convulsed King Street at the lunch hour in Sydney the other day. She hurried along through the sauntering eiowd crying, Khaki I Khaki! (ict into khaki! Follow ni"! I'm off lo the war! Come 011, now, you boys! Khaki!'' She was not content with preaching her gospel, but she acco npanied it with healthy d :gs, administered to the ribs of every man she passed. Young men who did not care and o'd whose dignity ■was offended were pulled up with a plunk in the r:bs and the word of command. "Khaki!'' Now and again .she varied the programme by inviting women to lol!ow her to the. war. and near Pitt Street a friendly-looking cab-horse sat tip smartly when lie was poked m the ribs- and the woman yelled "Khaki!" at him. The cah-horse was not half as much surprised as wa.s an officer, however, who. standing on the street corner, received a resounding slap in the middle of the back. He did not expect it. and as he reeled under the weight of the Wow not even the woman's complimentary "(rood. o!d boy!' 1 atoned for the unwarrantable familiar: ty. hen she was last seen th" woman had (piite a following, and she was heading for Clarence Sireet, where ivarehou.se employees were .sunning themselves.