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tion has helped to increase this feeling, and 

 further has brought out all her best, latent, 

 moral, and physical side in games and sports. 

 Schools such as Cheltenham Ladies' College, 

 St Andrew's, Wycombe Abbey, Bedale's, 

 many belonging to the Girls' Public Day 

 School Company, the Church Schools Com- 

 pany, and others, whose aim is to teach 

 girls on natural lines to take their natural 

 places in the world, in contrast to those which 

 make accomplishments and " fine-ladyism ". the 

 all-important end of education, and then find 

 that the girls thus turned out are chiefly 

 " prigs " of the most miserable description, 

 viewing with contempt those beneath them 

 in worldly position ; from these latter schools, 

 I say, women gardeners and farmers are not 

 likely to be drawn, but from the former 

 " yes," in a fair proportion. The pioneers of 

 this work must be hardy and brave, and full 

 of purpose and determination not to " look 

 back," not to give up when the difficulties 

 inherent to the novelty of this work for 



