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 out of the slums. What are their names? Where do they live? Are they married? If so, have they any children? And why do they want to work at munitions? The first to reach the superintendent's table is a Girton girl with a grave face who thinks it her duty to her country to work in the factories. The next is a laughing young chit, whose patriotism, being more substantial, takes the form of her "fella" who has gone to the front, so she thinks she would like "to be doin' a bit o' what 'e does." The next is a young bride, who was married last week to a soldier on leave, and wishes to "keep 'er mind from worritin'." The next is a mother of two children, who says she cannot live and pay rent on her separation allowance. And the next is a woman with a mouth like a scar, who has lost her husband in the war, and "wants a chance to pay them back a bit."

We talk of the British Tommy and his unconquerable light-heartedness, as if he were a peculiar type, but the Cockney