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women might turn their attention to tms 

 problem with advantage to themselves and 

 the country. A high-school girl would 

 master the necessary work very easily, and 

 might find a larger and more varied existence 

 in this way than in swelling the ranks of the 

 underpaid professions, and I think it important 

 that the student should be caught young. 



I look forward to the time when there 

 will be a number of these settlements 

 working on co-operative lines dotted all 

 over England. I believe also that they will 

 incidentally be doing a great work to stem 

 the tide of emigration into the towns ; for 

 such settlements will not only give employ- 

 ment to the villagers, but will also raise the 

 standard of agriculture through the breadth 

 of the land, and thus help to create that small 

 peasant - proprietorship which I sometimes 

 think will be the salvation of rural England, 



FRANCES EVELYN WARWICK. 



WARWICK CASTLE. 



