Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1919 — English Women—Buying Farms. [ARTICLE]

English Women—Buying Farms.

Women in England are 1 buviiut their own farms or their own truck and garden spaces in rather conspicuous numbers. And this is all an outcome of the tremendous work done by women on the land during the. war. The general feeling is that there will not be much room for. the common female farm laborer as time advances. but for the woman who has a little money and who looks upon farming as her profession and her lite work there is excellent opportunity in this direction. In the first place. on account of the compact location of the garden spaces and the cities in England transportation <>f foodstuffs is easy. Then garden truck and flowers do grow abundantly and profusely there, and always find ready markers. The Forgetful Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson tells an wnmsing storv of an old West country parson who had to hold two services, none in his own- Church - and otfe in the church over the moor. . On arriving at the latter church he got into the pulpit and said he was awfully sorry, but he had forgotten to bring a most admirable sermon which, he had written. “Luckily.” he continued, “as I came across the moor, I remembered a ,beauful Story, which I will tell you in place of the sermon. Er-er-well, daah It, Eve forgotten that, tbo?”