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a crisis not to be referred to one of their ministers ? 

 Carthage will not be able to man her ships. 



Homes cannot be made by experts. Wives and 

 mothers must be amateurs in many trades and cannot 

 delegate their responsibilities. A girl's education 

 should first aim to prepare her for her woman's duties. 

 Later she may train to become one of the cool, capable 

 women specialists now eminent in all professions. It 

 takes cement and bricks to make a wall. It takes 

 amateurs and experts to make a comfortable world. 



Amateur and expert are required in social work. 

 This distinction is more important than paid and 

 unpaid, though amateur opinion gains some weight 

 if it administer the salary of the expert, other- 

 wise experts are inclined to underrate it. For in 

 destroying the dangers of promiscuous charity and 

 ignorant patronage, science is apt to sterilize the 

 personal element in philanthropy. The modern 

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towna_beibre she reaches her ultimate goal, 

 jig genei^jly__Lon3oiTr One locality gaihs~ by 

 her experience inanotHerTahd her mistakes are left 

 behind her. Lady Bountiful was stationary her 

 dead self was an uncomfortable stepping-stone and 

 remained a monument of failure, teaching caution. 

 Her granddaughter in town or country is paralyzed 

 by social science. The social expert, impressed by 

 the ignorance of the resident amateur, does not 

 recognize the value of her local knowledge, or 

 remember the permanent character of her ministry. 

 She must go on working among her neighbours when 

 the secretary, the almoner, the inspector, or the 

 nurse have been promoted to work elsewhere and 

 succeeded by younger enthusiasts. Unpaid experts 

 may be permanent and local, but even they may find 

 the amateur's leisure more valuable than her money, 

 although more difficult to use. The professional in 

 one trade is an amateur in another, and a different 



