226 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



This is taken to the weaving shed in the village 

 where it is woven into a good homespun cloth. 

 And on a hillside farm cut up into many hold- 

 ings she can probably see her future mate in 

 the summer harvesting his corn, or in the 

 winter she may hear the echo of his axe in the 

 woods near by where he will be felling trees, 

 fashioning hurdles, sheep-cribs, or wattles out 

 of the underwood. Here, for the girl, there is 

 some other occupation besides the domestic 

 one, and for the young man some other craft 

 than that of tilling the earth. 



Beyond Salisbury, just as you enter the 

 Plain near Stonehenge, there is the Stonehenge 

 Woollen Industry which was started by Miss 

 Lovibond. This industry which Miss Lovibond 

 told me doubled its trade last year, has un- 

 doubtedly had the effect of keeping the country 

 lass in the village, spinning and weaving on 

 the hand-loom. But what "uplift," as the 

 American would say, there is to keep the 

 enterprising young man in or around the 

 village I have yet to discover. 



Philanthropists, and other benevolently 

 minded ladies and gentlemen, so constantly 

 lose sight of the fact that the young men and 

 women of the working classes are human 



