LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



Deutschland and get one of his sisters, and bring her 

 over to England to help him in his work. 



was a most fortunate stroke for Herschel 

 when he -went back home to get one of 

 his sisters to come over into Macedonia 

 and help him. No man ever did a great 

 work unless backed up by a good woman. 

 There were five of these Herschel girls 

 three were married, so they were out of the question, 

 and one was engaged. This left Caroline as first, last 

 and only choice. Caroline was twenty-two, and could 

 sing a little. She had appeared in concerts for her 

 father when a child. But when the father died the 

 girl was set to work in a millinery and dressmaking 

 shop, to help support the big family. The mother didn't 

 believe that women should be educated it unfitted 

 them for domesticity, and to speak of a woman as ed- 

 ucated was to suggest that she was a poor house- 

 keeper. In Greece of old, educated women were 

 spoken of as "companions" and this meant that 

 they were not what you call respectable. They were 

 the intellectual companions of men. The Greek term 

 of disrespect carried with it a trifle of a suggestion not 

 intended; i. e., that 'women who were not educated 

 not intellectual 'were really not companionable but 

 let that pass. 



It is curious how this idea that a woman is only a 

 scullion and a drudge has permeated society until 

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