/ None of the suffragettes have been conspic
uous by their work, and those few who did
reach the war zone in the hospitals, lost or
threw aside the cult they had tried so long
to take seriously, and became for the time
being what the Eord meant them to be: the
merciful, tender aids and help-meets to the
men who had fallen, to those who were trying
to minister to the wounded, and to making
peaceful the last hours of those for whom
science could do nothing.
It has been a significant fact, worthy of
note by those who have been most blatant in
declaring women were able to accomplish any
thing without the aid of man—that none of
the big hospitals or even any of the relief
stations, have been solely operated by women.
The women workers themselves realized that
all the work of relief, whether in the estab
lished hospitals, at the field stations, or in the
larger work of caring for and providing for
the convalescents —the work demanded the di
rection of men, and under this direction the
women have worked harmoniously, in full
accord, and most successfully.
Perhaps in no instance for years back, nor
for years to come, will it be possible for the
anti-suffragettes to point to facts, such as this
war has provided, to prove that only together
can man and woman accomplish anything for
the general good of humanity.
The tales of the heroic deeds of some of
the women nurses will go down in history,
parallel with Grace Darling, Florence Night
ingale and those other women who gave all
they had, to aid and comfort.
