Here is a typical week’s meals and it shows how well they are fed: 

MONDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, baked mince, jam.  Dinner:  Cold beef, potatoes, tomatoes, baked apples, custard.  Tea:  Tea, bread, butter, jam.  Supper:  Welsh rarebit, bread, butter, jam.

TUESDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, boiled ham, marmalade.  Dinner:  brown onion stew, potatoes, baked beans, biscuit pudding.  Tea:  Tea, bread, butter, jam, cheese.  Supper:  Savoury rice, tea, bread.

WEDNESDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, veal loaf.  Dinner:  Roast mutton, potatoes, marrow, bread pudding.  Tea:  Tea, bread, butter, marmalade, jam.  Supper:  Rissoles, bread, butter, cheese.

    THURSDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, fried bacon.  Dinner: 
    Meat pie, potatoes, cabbage, custard and rice.  Tea:  Tea,
    bread, butter, jam.  Supper:  Soup, bread and jam.

FRIDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, rissoles, marmalade.  Dinner:  Boiled beef, potatoes and onions, Dundee roll.  Tea:  tea, bread, butter, jam, slab cake.  Supper:  Shepherd’s pie, tea, bread, butter.

SATURDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, boiled ham, jam.  Dinner:  Thick brown stew, potatoes and cabbage, bread pudding.  Tea:  Tea, bread, butter, jam, cheese.  Supper:  Toad-in-hole, bread jam.

    SUNDAY.—­Breakfast:  Tea, bread, butter, fried bacon.  Dinner: 
    Roast beef, potatoes and cabbage, stewed fruit, custard.  Tea: 
    Tea, bread, butter, jam.  Supper:  Soup, bread, butter, cheese.

They are divided into five big classes for work.  There are large numbers of them cooks and waitresses, and many of these cooks come from the best private houses in England, so the Waacs and the soldiers fare well.  In one camp in the early days sixty women cooks walked in and sixty men out, released for the fighting lines.  The saving in fats done by the women is very great and their economies admirable and the women are waitresses in the camps and messes.

In one base in France when twenty-nine cooks came to take charge in the early days the commanding officer issued an order that expresses very well the spirit in which the women are regarded.

BASE DEPOT.

The Officer Commanding Base Depot wishes to draw the attention of all ranks to the following points in connection with the Domestic Section of the Women’s Auxiliary Army, which is employed in this depot: 

These women have not come out for the sake of money, as their pay is that of a private soldier.  In nearly every case they have lost someone dear to them in this war, and they are out here to try to do their best to make things more comfortable for the men in regard to their food.

It, therefore, is up to all ranks to make their lot an easy and not a hard one during