Chapter

    1.  The spirit of women

    2.  Organization and its pitfalls

    3.  Hospitals—­red cross—­V.A.D.

    4.  Bringing blighty to the soldiers—­huts, comforts, etc.

    5.  Woman-power for man-power

    6.  Women and munitions

    7.  The protection of women in industry

    8.  “The women’s land army”

    9.  War savings—­the money behind the guns

   10.  Food production and conservation

   11.  The W.A.A.C.’s

   12.  War and morals

   13.  What the war has done for women

   14.  Reconstruction

ILLUSTRATIONS

   A few shells (Frontispiece)

   Miss Edith Cavell

   Dr. Elsie Inglis

   First ambulance on duty in the first zeppelin raid

   “Somewhere in France”

   Cleaning A locomotive

   Women as carriage cleaners

   Window cleaners

   Steam Roller Driver

   Training women as aeroplane builders

   RIVETTING on boilers

   Facing boiler blue flanges

   Rough turning Jacket forging of 6-Pounder Hotchkiss gun

   How to dress for munition making

   Back to the land

   Women tackle A strong man’s problem

   Six reasons why you should buy war savings certificates

   “For your children”

BOOK MARKS ISSUED BY THE N.W.S.C.

   W.A.A.C.’s on the march

   Women of the reserve ambulance

   Police women

FOREWORD

“Our War Loan from England”—­That is the heading under which were grouped the nine lectures given by Miss Helen Fraser at Vassar College.  England has borrowed a billion or so of dollars from us, but the obligation is not all her way.  The moral strength of our cause is immeasurably increased by her alliance, and the spectacle of a great democracy organizing itself for complete unity in a world crisis is worth an incalculable amount to us.  Such a vision Miss Fraser has brought to her wider public among the women of America in this notable book.  Of her personal influence let me quote again from the Vassar students’ newspaper: