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life should be made as pleasant as possible for the 

 women. The women's institutes or clubs in Canada 

 which have penetrated monotonous lives with a new 

 ray of light are recommended as a model to be copied. 



VII 



EXPERT GUIDANCE 



There will be an expert director in each colony who 

 will be well paid and will have other special instructors 

 under him. He will manage one or more demonstra- 

 tion holdings as examples of good cultivation ; he will 

 insist on the hitherto unsuspected importance of book- 

 keeping to agriculturists ; he will control temporarily 

 the organisation for the collective marketing which is 

 essential to small holders (since at first, at all events, 

 tenants who are strangers to one another cannot be 

 expected to engage in ordinary co-operation) and will 

 also control the store for the hire or sale of implements, 

 manure, seeds, and so on. 



VIII 



SOCIAL AMENITIES 



The Committee proposed that there should be a club 

 room in every colony, a room for lectures, entertain- 

 ments and dances, and an open space for physical 

 recreation. They had no mad notion, however, that a 

 community could be created, self-sufficient and exclu- 

 sive, working by day and taking its relaxation in 

 lectures by night. It was expressly suggested that 



