This innovative letter was published in the Eastbourne Gazette to help the women of Eastbourne consider the local men involved in the local defence volunteers.
It seems a different world, one where orders were placed with shopkeepers to fulfil as required.
To The Women of Eastbourne
Sisters,
While so many of our men are so bravely fighting for our dear country’s very existence, cannot we do something to help the men who are unable to go to the front, to do at least what they can to drill and to become proficient in rifle shooting?
Cannot we arrange our households that we do no shopping of any sort, so on Wednesday, thus releasing our tradesmen and the whole of their staffs for the whole day?
I have always thought we are often inconsiderate over our shopping. In India ladies have to give their orders overnight or go without their meals.
Could we not give our weekly orders for grocery, etc. and do all our shopping, say, before 4 p.m. carrying home every urgent order ourselves?
I am sure we could do much to give our busy men – men who can’t leave Eastbourne – more time to devout themselves to such training as would fit them to defend Eastbourne, if it were attacked by an enemy, if we would only consult together and act together.
Will someone of greater influence than I ask our kind, Mayoress to convene a women’s meeting to enable us to fulfil our real life’s work – namely, to be men’s strengtheners and helpers – Yours faithfully,
F.S. Fahey
Newstead,
Darley Road,
Meads.
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