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172 LADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND.
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You Want To Know How We Ladies Manage To...
reign of the blustering winter a time of pleasant work / and healthful amusement .
To be sure we are far from schools , that is if you mean schools for the education of children of the upper classes z yes I
there is only one such Institution in Shetland , and that one , is in its infancy as yet ; butyou knowwe can have tutors and
governesses for our little ones , . , If children must be sent to boarding schools away from all
atmosp the sweet here home of the ties nursery , and the ; if hol the y influences youth of both which sexes dwell must in the _Ibe
turned out to meet the troubles and temptations and evil examp distance les between of public them schools and the , wh parent y ! it nest matters be three little hundred if the or
simp colleges ly three and miles theatres . Oh and ! yes operas , I grant and you the like we are ; but far we from are _,
also far , from the vicinity , of contaminating , infantile diseases— - those which dwell in crowded towns and unhealthy
smoky scourges suburbs , desolating the well-filled nurseries , and leaving , bereft hearts in the parlours . And we are also far from the
vices which beset youth in more civilized regions . We can rear our children in peaceful security and keep them near us
which till their the ch tender aracters influences are formed of , a and happy armed home with can that give strength . Then
we can send them out to the Battle of Life , and feel that we have done all that mortal could to make them impervious to
¦ evil . We have no societcertainlif by that you mean a casual
acquaintance with " y half , the y worl , d , " who pester you with morning callsengrossing- the precious hours of the . forenoon
with chattering , gossip , and filling your ears with meaningless mean compliments solemn . dinner Oh I no parties , we have and no stiff society evening , if by balls that where you
every guest wears a mask , and , the entertainers are wishing , the kind whole . affair But I at will Jericho tell you . No what , no we ! we have have to no mak society e up . of In that the
summer time a host of wandering tourists come to visit _Shetland some ; for some recruiting for scientific of shattered purposes , health some , for som rest e ( a from very business few ) to ,
" astonish the natives" and "do" the islands—almost all gent no hotels lemen ( or lod ladies ing ) in houses the true except sense in Lerwick of the word so . the There doors are of
the resident gentry g must be , open , and the ladies , must be ever " on hospitable cares intent . " We say u welcome , " to the ofttimes
stranger " entertaining , and our angels courtesy unawares is " amp — l always y repaid receiving by - much
pleasing and valuable information , and often laying the
foundation for life-long friendships .
172 Ladies' Life In Shetland.
172 LADIES' LIFE IN SHETLAND .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/28/
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