HOW WOMEN ARE HELPING THE EMPIRE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 714, 21 October 1914, Page 6

HOW WOMEN ARE HELPING THE EMPIRE.

VIEWS OF LADY MUNRO-FERGUSON. 1 The answer tu the call of duty has been made, and made with no uncertain voice, by the women of Australasia, says Everylady's Journal in its second war number for women. Along the path which was pointed out to them, Austrailaß' women are trudging cheerfully, ungrudgingly, yet often with laughter akin to team. To-day in every corner of the Commonwealth, from Government House to the huts "outback," women are contriving, echeming, planning, working; Bcheming and there is no useless haste and expenditure or unncessary energy. Federal Government House, Melbourne, is one of the "concentration campß," for it has been made the headquarters of the Australian Red Cross Society, of which Lady Helen Munro-Ferguaon is the president. At the present time the ballroom somewhat resembles a warehouse. Long tronbles are packed •with mountainous piles of shirts, pyamas, bandages, books and miscellaneous articles. While she was busily engaged in trying up bundles of shirts in the ballroom at Government House, she found time to epxress her view to a repreentative of Everylady' Journal. "I knew that the loyalty and kindheartedness of the Australians was an assured thing," she said; "but I did not expect such » wonderful response. We have already cabled £SOOO to London to be expended on medicines, foooris, and comforts, and we have over 20,000 articles ready to send. In seventeen days the League received from the workers 17,738 finished articles, 1000 mosquito nets, 500 tins of cocoa, 6 gross of surgical sponges, and 2000 bottles of cordials; and all these things have been unpacked and sorted by committees of ladies. Ten cases of goods hove already been shipped toEngland ;ti£ty-five more are packed ready to s,end." Foe other facts about the work our women are doing we refer readers to Everylady s Journal for October. It iB a splendid war number for women, containing such articles as "A Woman in the War Camp," "Sketching on Belgian Battlefields," "Fashions for War time," and a dozen other articles telling women how to save and make money. Everylady's Journal is sold locally for sixpence.