Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1920 — LAND GIRLS WILL STAY [ARTICLE]

LAND GIRLS WILL STAY

Britain's Knee-Smocked Women Want Their Own Farms. Britain’s land girls, a war emergency corps, will remain. The kneesmockad, vigorous type of womanhood who helped Increase the nation’s food supply want to remain on the land, and the government Is not objecting. Most of the 8,000 members of the corps, still undemobilized, want little farms of their own, because of the independence It gives. Thus, Phyllis, with her ruddy, openair face, will still get about her farmyard duties In slouch hat, corduroy bloomers, leggins and yellow smock, knowing she Is no blot on the landscape. Land girls invariably are married to their work costumes,, for they know they gre becoming.