88 GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



or are not accentuated in the ordinary quiet 

 routine life at home, but assume grave propor- 

 tions as the result of the greater physical require- 

 ments of work in a garden. Therefore, parents 

 should ask advice of a doctor before encouraging 

 their daughters to take up gardening. It probably 

 will be found by those who are able to adopt it as a 

 profession, that there will be fewer aimless and 

 useless existences, and that there will be many 

 more happy, long-lived people. 



