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Workshops " bears traces of his hand in its 

 directness and vigour, and especially where it 

 says: "Ignorance is so obviously the condition 

 of the younger portion of such an assembly 

 (i.e. the visitors to any industrial exhibition) 

 that surely nothing but the fear of innovation, 

 which exercises so depressing an influence in 

 so many of our schools, would have prevented 

 the use of some recognised work on this subject 

 as one of the ordinary reading books." The 

 experience gained on this tour alone must 

 have been of great use to a writer on a 

 woman's paper. 



To the writing of the Queen leader he gave 

 considerable care and attention, and would make 

 notes of and on subjects or ideas that struck him 

 as appropriate. Often when in difficulty either 

 as to choice of subject or the best way of dealing 

 with it, he would go into the garden and dig 

 for a time, or prune the trees, while thinking 

 it out. On questions directly affecting women 

 he would consult his wife, and always he would 

 get her to read over his article before sending 

 it to the printer. Mrs. Tegetmeier, who for 

 many years before becoming an invalid had 

 given over the active superintendence of house- 

 hold affairs to her younger sister, Elizabeth 

 Stone, was a great reader, and would often mark 

 items of news relating to women in the Times, 

 while her memory for dates and her knowledge 



