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_ V Some Years Ago The Fishermen Of A Sm...
. fall upon them would require omniscience itself ; and the Micawber stle of preparation is but a-waste of timefor nobody
< can tell what y may " turn up . " I have seen ladies , glaze their . own windowsand mend their own bootsyet I do not think it
necessary for , people to take lessons of a , glazier or a shoemaker . _Necessity is a good teacherand in many little arts we need no
other . But there are some , things upon which so much of the comfort and well-being of a household dependsthat they ought to
, be thoroughly learned before undertaking the management of one . I may mention especially cooking , including the art of making
bread , and laundry-work . Indeed all sorts of house-work should be understoodtheoreticallif not practicallyfor a lady may , at
any moment , be , left without y assistance or the , possibility of procuring it , and then her head must save her hands , or she will
soon be worn out . She should understand something of household surgery , for accidents will occurand when there is no doctor
within fifty or a hundred miles , , lives may be lost for want of knowing what to do .
To comprehend the science of medicine and know the laws of disease , is more than can be expected of every woman . Indeed , on
such subjects " a little knowledge is a dangerous thing , " for they are too intricate to be unravelled by any but a practised hand , and
require a head to guide it which knows the bearing of every pathway and turning in the strange labyrinth of disease , and how
to seize the clue , invisible to untrained observers . But every one may know something of the laws of health , and learn enough of our
wonderful structure to understand how to preserve it from injury . There is one thing too much neglected in the present day , in
which every woman going out to a colony should make herself a _jproneientnot merely in theorybut in practice . I mean
needle-, , work of all sorts . The sewing-machine is a most valuable invention , but it can be used only as an assistance , not as a substitute
for a good sempstress . It is more liable to be put out of order than fingers and thumbsand the loss of some little screwor the
breaking of some part of , the machinery , may involve the delay , and . expense of sending to England before it can be remedied .
To discover where women are most wanted , the obvious plan is to turn to the census paperssee where the proportions are most
unequal , and decide upon that , place which contains the smallest number . * But there are circumstances which should modify this
mode of decision , and a mere general table like that in the National Review is not sufficient . In Victoria and New South
of * surprise The difference to those in who this tak respect e the trouble between to the examine different into colonies the subject will be matter They
. will find that while in one ( Western Australia ) the excess of the male over the female population is as much as 72 per cent ., the number being cent very
as nearl 21 y to as 20 . 7 to 4 , in another ( South Australia ) it is only 5- per , or
