ABSTRACT

The important dairy industry, with respect to which the League hopes to do some useful work, is so especially a feminine department that I should like to see ladies interesting themselves in the operations of the League, and the hon. secretaries sre particularly glad to welcome such co-operation. On sending in my subscription, which I did at the formation of the League, my name was at once placed on the Provisional Uom~ mittee, and 1 was afterwards elected a member of the Executive Committee, and of the Sub-Committee for Promotion of Industrial Education. This latter important question has, in its various bearings, been considered by the Commissioners of National Education, whose memorandum, with respect to the industrial instruction of girls, has now been before the public for upwards of a year. Readers of the ENGUSHWOMAN'S REVIEW will recollect articles and letters dealing with the memorandum, which appeared last year. For myself, I agree with my friend, Mrs. Power Lalor, in considering the new departure as useful and beneficial, and I do not see any danger of the literary education of girls being so neglected as some opponents seemed to think would be the case. It must also be borne in mind that a too exclusive literary education for girls of the peasant aud