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and waiting about, coupled with the temptation 

 to drink and waste money as well as time. A 

 threshing gang may be held up for days during 

 the short threshing season when by the aid of 

 the telephone a breakdown could be put right 

 in a few hours. 



All this may seem very discouraging to a young 

 wife who contemplates making a home on a farm 

 in the New West — at least on a homestead in a 

 newly settled district ; and there is no doubt 

 that for such it is a very serious business ; but 

 for the healthy, strong woman, young or in the 

 prime of life, who loves a country-life, and re- 

 joices in the care of animals, but with no incli- 

 nation towards matrimony, I really do not think 

 the same disability applies, and in the next chapter 

 I hope to show that there are abundant openings 

 for such, or at least that such may find opportmii- 

 ties for a life of independence they would look 

 in vain for in the Old Country, and under such cir- 

 cimistances, if matrimony comes, well, they may 

 enter that blessed state with their eyes open. 



That there are men in the Provincial Legis- 

 latures who recognize that all is not well as things 

 are, may be seen from the following extracts 

 from an open letter from the Hon. George 

 Langley, of Saskatchewan, Minister of Munici- 

 palities. The letter was in reply to one asking 



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