AMONGST THE WOMEN

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 26, Issue 12, 1 December 1936, Page 5

AMONGST THE WOMEN

"To work for the women has been more difficult but more interesting. There is no hope as yet of founding societies or councils for them, and I do not want to hurry them into anything, or force myself on them armed with the good advice that is so easy to give and has so little effect. Opportunities to make friends came when they began to venture out to our "tents to have minor cuts dressed, sore eyes attended to, and so on. I have been able to interest them m knitting, and to teach them to make simple flannel shirts for their children. I find that most of them know at least how to hold a needle, but the idea of actually sewing their children's clothes themselves and spending the money thus saved on soap or milk or

some other necessity, does not seem to have occurred to themi . "The high-caste women cannot, with propriety, come of ten to see me, so I was glad when they asked me to come into the village to the house of the headman to teach them, too."