Lady Helps

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 11, 14 July 1892, Page 4

Lady Helps

Prominence is given by Woman to an article on " The Colonial Lady- 1 Help," by J. Weston, who 'thinks there is agood.future in Australasia for this " importation " from Great Britain, provided she has a thorough knowledge ot sewing and light housework'^ some acquaintance with the art of dressmaking, is resourceful, equal to emergencies, not above attending to the out-of-the-way details of a home, and able at a pinch to undertake some of Mary Jane's work when she goes away in a huff, bhe may have to nail a loose palm? in the fence, or bake a batch of bread, or drive a buggy, or saddle a horse, aud fifty things she would never dream of doing at home. But if she is young she soon accommodates herself to new circumstances, and enjoys the freedom and unconventionally of colonial life as much as the native-born. * * * i he demand for lady-helps ol an active useful type is growing, and, for some time to come, the ranks are likely to be recruited frem abroad. * * With a definite aim, accurate information, good sense and courage, there is nothing a woman may not accomplish. She may begin as a lady-help and end as the wile of some squatter or merchant millionaire as hundreds have done in earlier days.— -Home News