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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 7 April 1913, Page 2

WOMAN LOGGING UP AND BURNING limbor. She's it splendid housewife, too, as I suljsoquentfv discovered on re-cc-iving hospitality in her tidy home. 'Theso arc the sort of wives who make their husband's a success in the buflh. A Taranald newspaper has an advertisoment in it for a "girl to milk 12 cows and assist in the house." If that gfrl is found I sincerely hope some young country fellow will promptly make her his "best girl." "It's de.^rr.d•Tjg for a woman to milk.'' Yovi think ao? I don't. Where I eomo from -all girls milk. Best girls in the world, good housewives," and better mothers God never made. 1 know a woman in our Dominion who started the foundation of her family's prosperity on seven acres' of land and three rows. In mv earliest days in New Zenlnnd I can call vi) a memory of two girls, with stockwhips in their hands, driving a few cow.-; and young /stock in front of them to tho sections of their newly-made husband.". Such animals wore their only I'mvrv. To-day they are wealthy dames. Seotl.ind's gresit poet received scmo of his grandest inspiration from a barley !j.i.rve«fc iieW associated with woman and from the sweet charm fif the milkmaid a!- tioamin when the "kye" came home, lie's a .Soot un-north. elderly, childiQ?,". and well off. A streak of philanihropy shot through his soul to hi.3 frtriicrcclinoj tenant (then comparatively Nruvh'-juarrtod) on tho-100-aoro farm for which he was paying £1 per acre or £100 a yoar. "Look hero Timsnn." (••aid Sandy. "as a single man ye did no r>;nr.\l on this plaro and h<nv two o' yo I ;>r;» coin' -to live I dinna- ken ava. Hut | I'll toll yo what I'll do w' ye. I'll give yo a lea so o' -fc-Tj r> nlaoe for 10 years, an' ftir- every l.'aim that's born tao ye T'II reduce yor rent- £20 a. year." 'Somo ninnllis nflcrwaifls Sandy* renoived no-ti-o Ihnb his tenant's wife had rriven l>;rth to twirn. "Twn, tv.-a. ma faith. ; lhat,'=! heavy wrather; £i 0 orono in one prank. It's no carnv, Tint I']!.«.f.nnrl fno ■m' bnnrin." muse.'l Sandy to himself 'n.s he twisted up th© miesive which brought