the essentials to success in a colony:—

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 181, 15 July 1859, Page 4

the essentials to success in a colony:—

" There are, however, some—both men and women—who, having been accustomed to fashion and pleasure, and having been taught but little of the duties of ordinary life' till they came- to tho colonies, l have given all their pent up energies to fulfil the demands of their new calling; and for the encouragement of others I may say that these have generally become most proficient in the arts and duties of colonial life. They have eclipsed the conceited old farmer, by meeting every need as it arose, while he has remained stereotyped in an exotic and cast-iron system. I knew a lady once, noble-hearted, generous, accomplished, a soul such as not often dwells in the frail tenement of the fair sex. She was more than educated, more than refined, and she was a Christian. She could play the piano, or drive a team of bullocks, write an essay on the poets, or manage a farm of a thousand acres, talk psychology and metaphysics, or surpass the farmers in the agricultural shows, build a church and then lead the singing in it, or leap a horse over a fivebarred gate, and whip the shoulders'-qi a scapegrace who had jilted a young lady in her protection."— New Zsalanckr.