Self-sacrifice.—The self-sacrificing nature of. woman is well illustrated in this extract from a letter to a late Western paper : —" I know a woman who lives in a country village. With a heart and brain alive to better tilings she stays there and, day by day, year after year, takes care of an idiot brother, and for her reward has only vacant smiles and meaningless gibberish. It is such a half life, you say; it is vegetating ; you could not live so. Well, perhaps so. But I imagine that it is a sort of vegetation that will bloom out grar , " nll ' o, *" the, sunshine of a second life,"
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1549, 10 February 1874, Page 109
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107Page 109 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1549, 10 February 1874, Page 109
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