Excerpt from The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, Vol. 49: May, 1917, to October, 1917, Inclusive I have elaborated on what might be considered merely an introduction, because nothing done by the women of England can be considered by a Canadian in the light of Canadian experience alone. This description of conditions pre cluding complete participation by the English woman in the war work open to her frees me for a general state ment without prejudice, omitting for the moment consideration of her handicaps. I am prepared to say that not all the better class women of England have done in the aggregate what a tenth their number of Can adian women would have accomplish ed in the same time. They have not taken to knitting for several reasons. Those who are keenly anxious to do effective war work without delay have not the patience to learn; and those who have but yielded to the prevail ing fashion do not, see in quiet knit ting that which will return them full credit for their energy. Also, there are still those in whose mind con tinnes the almost unsuspected impres sion that knitting is for a lower class. In a whole year I have seen only one English woman knitting. It is the women of the lower classes who have responded in a manner that calls for no qualifications, no condi tions, and not alone for the high wages their work now brings them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.