Farm Woman's Diary
FIND Mary Scott’s talks always worth listening to, and last Saturday’s continuation of the Farm Woman’s Diary was no exception. Just the right type of listening for a Saturday morning now that Saturday, freed from the urgency of week-end shopping, has become a kind of non-sectarian Sunday. The Farm Woman of the Diary has the same knack of arousing our personal interest and affection for her as E. M. Delafield’s Provincial Lady, but whereas the Provincial Lady has the advantage of being somewhat helpless and even scatterbrained, and thus appealing to our protective. instinct, the Farm Woman has to win our sympathy the harder way. Perhaps in her case our intuitive liking springs from our. shared experience, perhaps it has something to do with our knowing the same or similar people. But the Farm Woman’s Diary is not only emotionally satisfying. This week at any rate there was a lot of information of a practical nature to be gleaned from it. As a city woman I have no great interest in the methods of tesuscitating an almost dead lamb. But town and country are united in their quest for the infallible method for the home baking of bread, and though the Farm Woman's expériences serve rather to warn us of pitfalls than to arm? us, with knowledge we can feel that if we fail we fail in good company.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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232Farm Woman's Diary New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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