Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — Women to Prove Their Heroism. [ARTICLE]

Women to Prove Their Heroism.

What with keeping the wolf from her own door and helping France, her next door neighbor, keep from her premises the groundhogs - who have overrun Europe, England has been having a tolerably busy time. But, undaunted. she Is now engaged tn a crusade to keep the rats from her food, according to an address on the war service being _rendered by the women of England which was recently dellv-? ered before the women’s department of the National Civic federation. If in listing the residences of the rodent population of 40.000,000 upon whom war is being relentlessly waged the women served as census takers and went without chairs upon which to stand at the first sound of a mouse’s squeak, it is evidence of the heights of heroism to which the necessities of. battle have lifted them.