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New countryside industries, such as Chivers's 

 jam-making at Histon,which draws many young 

 women out from Cambridge, and Mr. Wilkins's 

 at Tiptree, Essex, which keeps young women 

 in the country instead of letting them drift 

 into our towns, are industrial movements 

 which make for national health. But these 

 are dependent more or less upon factory 

 conditions of life. What is perhaps more 

 interesting to us in these pages is the settle- 

 ment of the man with his family on the land 

 from which he hopes to derive the best part 

 of his livelihood. 



Now there are a large number of our lower 

 middle classes, and the more prosperjous of the 

 working classes who seize every opportunity 

 to escape from town conditions of life to win 

 a partial, if not a whole livelihood from the 

 land. There is, too, the same unrest among the 

 girls of the middle class, who, after a training 

 at Swanley and other colleges such as Cardiff 

 University, as well as at hostels such as that 

 of Lady Warwick's, seek to become lady 

 gardeners, beekeepers, etc. Has not J\lr. 

 Tickner Edwardes drawn a charming picture 

 in his fascinating book, IVie Bee - master of 

 Warrilow, of girls, once anaemic typists, now 



