wish the writer of "Life As It Is" in your
issue of February 19th could have some experience of life as it is on farms. She seems to think "double jobs" (her own professional career and looking after "a nice little flat with every mod, con.") quite too much to ask of women, who will just sink into "early and unnoticed graves."
Women on farms cook meals (and what meals!) for their men folk and farm helpers ; they wash ; they often have children to care for ; they have no mod. cons.—as a rule every drop of water is pumped, and generally the shops are miles away. And they are the sort to go cheerfully on, never thinking that their lives are appalling. One wonders, inci- dentally, just what effect Mrs. Simpson's article would have on profes- sional women in Russia?
Is it that urban and professional women cannot realise what this war means, or is it that they have not the pluck of country-bred women on farms? I am glad to say I do know some highly educated women doing fine, unaccustomed work on the land, with never a murmur and with no intention whatever of filling early and unnoticed graves.—Yours truly,
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