THE CLERGYMAN’S WIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 8

THE CLERGYMAN’S WIFE

A NKIY ZEALAND EXAAIBLE. LONDON, December 21. In a letter to the “Daily Telegraph” Ihe Rev. George 11. Hewitt asks the question if it is seemly that a clergyman's wife should he compelled to do all her own housework and a great deal of gardening, in addition to much voluntary parochial work, and that valuable time should he spent by the clergyman on menial pursuits," etc; A. reply to this in the same journal is signed by “Al. C. Carrington, Christchurch, Hants.” .“ While J sympathise whole-hearted ]y with the clergy and their wiges wli are striving to bring up their families on very small incomes.” says the correspondent, “ I should like to nsa wb> housework and gardening should be considered unseemly or menial for anyone? A little experience of colonial life would soon alter such views. ! have known many a vicar’s wife ir. New Zealand, whe, in addition to doing her own housework, helping in tin garden, taking the lead in Mothers' Union and G.K.S. work, still manages to he smart and neat in her own dresv and that off her children, and to have small parties when necessary. It woulc never enter her head that her worn was either ‘menial ’ or ‘unseemly.’ ”