December, I 9 I 8
THE LANDSWOMAN
reasons whv it was !uccessful. Papers should reach th• Editor,
Stono Fi~ld, Kidbwok Grove, Blackheath, London, S.E., before
the end of December.
I had a letter the other day from the Editor of a leading
daily papPr, asking me to writs an article on the "Beauty of
the L"nd Girl." I replied that the beauty of the Land Girl
was such an obvious fact that it did not seem Mcess"ry to elaborate 1t. Everyone !mows that work on the land has brought
perfect health and therefore perf~ct happiness to thousands
of women. Tbe freedom from the rcst.raining influence of town
life and of skirts has developed the natural grace of form and
case of carriage in ail our Land girls; and more-it has aw~kened
In a remarkable degree, that innate !ense of beauty in woman
which, were she employed in any occupation, might have