HAIRWOKK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 11

HAIRWOKK.

Mrs. Haybittle makes a specialty of Artistic and Up-to-dnto Hairwork. Only the Ijnat of English Hair need. Head Maspage, Shampooing, Cutting, oto. 2GB, LAMBTON QUAY, Thona 151)4, Over Orr, Chemist,

jkd elopes,' cool and gTeen and beautiful ire often- seen'- regiments/of grey star! lioeloton trees with upraised arms 'stretch; !il i appealingly : to, the skies, '.or 'prastrat/ tiants, their silver-sfrey trunks black with ;ho fire, that assailed them, twisted anc born, gradually > Tesolvitng into thiejr primal,, elements- -Grass and stumps, stumps and grass are everywhere, witl iicre and there, a rounded hill green, ant tare of blackened trees, foretaste of the smooth 'beauty' that isyet to come, anc nute witness to the of man, th< 'armer. . Through the stillness' falls thi nournful bleating .of a wandered' sheet seeking'for its oomrades, the qucstioninf lall of tho'quail on the hillside, callinj bo - its 'mate,or : the distant' lowing ol ;attle beasts, every whero to' .be seon 'ii Taranaki. '• The Taranaki settler is prout 5f his province,. and. of what ■ has best accomplished there, and what.it has be some-is nothing,to what it mil yet b< in the future—so the far-seeing onea say The Women of tho Backblocki. A little while ago there w'aa some tali about unfortunate, overworked children slaves of dairy necessities, but to-day, i: one asks about it, there is only a sceptt cal smile and a shrug of the shoulder "Thore- is not much of that," is th< reply that follows. "Of coursepchildrei do on some places : help the milking but they can stand a little of it. It'i a healthy lifo for them; and theiy don'i do too much. After all, though tliere ii much said about tho hard work and th< constant hours of the dairy farmer's.life ifs not so bad. It m'akos him. health} and wholesome, and on a milk farm t family of brothers and sisters, if the] take it up, can all live together and keei a home for themselves, and be thorough ly independent.. What moro oan one asl for than the last?" : Little indeed, save to follow the waj one likes ,best in which to gain that in dependence. • Things that have not been exaggerate! oither in Taranaki or elsewhere are thi hardships* that thewomon of tho bacl country havo to face. Sicknoss, loneli ness, hard work, never knowing wha' bolt from the blue may bo hurled upoi them, are only somfe of tho trials thai they have been oalled upon to bear, ant they, have borne them with nothing 6hor of heroism.' When ma'king their way -fx their homes in the wilderness there havi been cases whero tho woman has had ti be blindfolded and carried along thi track, so bad has it been,- and foi months and months, even years, sh< has not been ablo to venture awaj from it or has not even seen anothei woman. When sickness comes to'bor sht has had to be carried in a litter by men for miles through' tho roughest countrj ti get to the nearest township. »nd sometimes there have been cases where reasor has left her, through her agony. Then are doctors who arc heroes as well, fm they spare neither lifo nor limb,to. react those cases of heart-breaking need. It is not such a frightfully uncommor thing in the winter, or wet season, foi a wagon to sink from sight in tho mut with which tho road is covered, ani eishteen bullocks to fail in pulling it out Such are some of the drawbacks of Hf< in the hintorland of Taraaakli