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    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED. 75

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    _ V Some Years Ago The Fishermen Of A Sm...

    came at last it was enjoyed to tlie utmost , and tlie long-wished for treasure seemed like an angel in tlie house .

    The rough colonial households every year become fewer and recede farther and farther into the bush , and there are not many

    now which industry , patience , and cleanliness , combined with the of discerning the essentials of comfort , cannot make pleasant

    dwelling power -places for those who have good health , a contented dispositionand affection for one another—the true philosopher ' s stone

    , which turns everything to gold . People who have never been in Australia do not distinguish

    between the life in or near town and the bush life , which is as different as London life and that of an English farmer or a Highland

    chief . Those are said to be in the Bush who live beyond the reach of a butcher and baker , and are consequently obliged to kill their

    own meat and bake their own bread . In the towns , all the necessaries and most of the luxuries of life can be procured without

    difficulty . In Melbourne , some of the handsome stone houses , the fine horses and equipages , the elegant drawing-rooms and

    welldressed women , would compare not ill with those we find among the English merchants in the neighbourhood of London . Round the

    harbour of Sydney , beautiful villas peep out from among the trees on all sidesand little quays running down to the water's edge , with

    boats nioored , readfor useive evidence of leisureand luxuriousenjoyment of the advantages y , g offered by the lovely situation , . About

    Adelaide , the houses , one story in height , with their verandahscovered with exquisite climbing plants , are situated in well

    cultivated gardens , redolent of rich scents , and abounding _witla delicious fruitand most of their inhabitants have the indulgences

    , of books , music , and fancy-work . But fifty miles from any of these places the life is very different .

    The houses , sometimes picturesquely situated in the park-like scenery of Australia , have yet a slovenly look , which seems to arise

    partly from the absence of garden or other enclosure , partly from the signs of domestic occupations , which , as there is no one to

    see , there is no reason for concealing . Built often without hall or passagethe rooms open on to the common verandah , which serves

    , frequently for a harness-room . A heap of half-mended stockings , a pipe , a few books , possibly well-chosen , a stock-whrp , and a

    cradle in the solitary white-washed sitting-room , bear witness of the habits and occupations of its inhabitants . But even here the

    presence of refinement and forethought makes itself felt , and the character of the mistress , or the want of the mistress , is at once

    apparent . A Training School for ladies intending to emigrate , such as

    wasproposed by S . G . O . in his admirable letter to the Times , would doubtless be a very useful institution , as there are many things a

    little knowledge of which , would save them trouble , anxiety , and discomfort . To foresee and _prexDare for all the duties which may

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    Impartially Considered. 75

    IMPARTIALLY CONSIDERED . 75

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/3/