FARM COLONY FOR INEBRIATE WOMEN.

Lady Henry Somerset contributes to the current number of the Temple Magazine a most interesting and picturesque account of her Farm Colony for Inebriate women at Duxhurst. She bears testimony to the efficacy of hard outdoor work for restoring t£e habitually intemperate both physically and morally. The large fruit gardens are all planted by women—strawbeiry beds, gooseberries, and raspberry canes—and the fruit picked and packed by them. "Our women," says Lady Henry, "keep all these flower borders in order, all those lawns, and those long forcing houses where tomatoes are grown, and smilai and chrysanthemums; they are all cared for entirely by women.' People often wonder that such things can be' done, but it is accomplished because we have a splendid head for our undertaking in Miss Jessie Smith, who was trained at Swanley College, and who is a most proficient gardener, and a most patient and kind employer. We cannot make our market gardening really pay, because, of course, our women are all unskilled, and they have to be taught everything; but it pays us, nevertheless, for no employment could t>e found that is half so healthy, so invigorating, and so restoring as this out-door work for those whose health has been undermined and whose morals have been destroyed by the poison of alcohol. 11 am certain that the large percentage of cures, • which our medical 'officer has returned in his report, is largely owing to this method of employing our patients, and the way in which the idea has been copied in all sorts of institutions proves that, afc any rate, we have led the way for a new method in reformatories."