Depression in Europe.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2914, 2 June 1888, Page 3

Depression in Europe.

A correspondent writes to the New Zealand Herald The chief cause of depression and scarcity of food in thickly-populated Europe is, as a rule, the high rents, and the chief cause in all the colonies is the dread of labor. Every hoy attending school from the age of ten years should bo trained to actually work the land, and know how to Aivatc to tho extend of his own necessary requirements. To do this all schools should have a model farm with them, say a distance £>y train out of town so that day school lads could go and come free of charge. This would give young boys the habit of labor and exercise conductive to strength and health. Young men jilmtld not be brought up with the

idea of jumping into an easy billet or a soft clerkship. This method should also be adopted in girls schools : according to woman's duty and calling : such as all kinds of domestic know-: ledge, &c. Most of the colonials, if j not all, i.e., city men, run away with the idea that their sons must not do common labor. Well, his son is halt educated, which is bad wlion brought up in idleness and false expectation. Much better ho should be taught to work the land, then to give him a small start in the way of stock, &c." You are always wisliim,' for some occupation, wrote a lady friend to another. How would )ou like t.o take up the Yankee notion of artistic callers." It appears that a Boston lady having presumably insufficient timcto personally call on all her friends, engaged a lady deputy, who went the rounds, leaving cards and making the usual inquiries; and the practice has now become quite general "over there," The "artistic caller" has to possess no end of social qualifications for her position, and if her duties are not especially intellectual, atall events they arc less onerous than those of a governess or a hospital nuvsc, Think over the idea, chcrie, but don't adopt it. It is too transatlantic for us, is it not? Mrs Dusenberry; What nonsense these newspapers study out! Now liere's a statement that widows are more likely to die than widowers. Mr Dusenberry: That's all bosh, my dear. The fact is that a man generally dies before his widow, Mrs Dusenberry: Is it really the case? How do you accouut for it? Mr Dusenberry: I can't.