CHAPTER I 



MARKET GARDENING AND FRUIT FARMING 

 AN OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN 



THE last twenty years have seen the most An 



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extraordinary changes in the status or women, sketch 

 They have become " emancipated " doubtless, 

 although in a somewhat different direction 

 from the " emancipation " originally contem- 

 plated by those Pioneer Women of the 

 eighties, who were for laying the axe at 

 the root of the tree of the whole Social 

 Fabric. From being man's " chattel," the 

 more advanced of the sisterhood became his 

 enemy, his pronounced enemy, and hurled 

 anathemas of every description against his 

 meanness, his gross selfishness, his cruel in- 

 justice, which could legislate so unequally 

 for the sins of the woman and the sins of 



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