women. In one place where a young girl from the country
had been led astray by the temptations of this new and monotonous life
and had committed suicide, the Young Women's Christian Association has
erected a large hut to provide for the moral welfare of thousands of
other girls faced by the same temptations. Oh, the dreary drudgery
that faces these tired women!

"Rattle and clatter and clank and whirr,
And thousands of wheels a-spinning--
Oh, it's dreary work and it's weary work,
But none of us all will fail or shirk;
Not women's work--that should make, not mar,
But the Devil drives when the world's at war;
And it's long and long the day is."

The Y W C A has adopted the sign of the blue triangle, to distinguish
it from the red triangle of the Y M C A. The huts bore the touch of
deft women's hands in the decorations, flowers, and signs of cheer and
comfort which the ladies have provided for these hard worked girls.
Before the huts were erected some girls had to sleep in the streets all
night in the unsanitary communities about the works.

Both the government authorities and the Association workers have seen a
large open door for social service among these millions of munition
workers. For the work here is permanent. These great buildings will
remain as manufacturing centers of some kind after the war. The huts
will still be occupied. Already a new and growing body of legislation
is being introduced to improve the conditions of the toilers of old
England.

It is little wonder that the whole nation has responded to this work so
boldly undertaken on such a large scale. From the first gifts have
been pouring in unsolicited. His Majesty the King, patron of the Young
Men's Christian Association in Britain, has inspected many of the
buildings, and sent in his contribution, with the following note: "His
Majesty congratulates the Association on the successful results of its
War work, which has done everything conducive to the comfort and
well-being of the armies, supplying the special and peculiar needs of
men drawn from countries so different and so distant. It has worked in
a practical, economical, and unostentatious manner, with consummate
knowledge of those with whom it has to deal. At the same time the
Association, by its spirit of discipline, has earned the respect and
approbation of the Military Authorities."

The Queen Mother donated the Alexandra Hut in London, which makes
provision for