But what a piece or work is a woman, as well as a mon! A week or two ago we read of a lady doctor in Norfolk who being the only doctor thin reach went out with a lifeboat crew in search ct a wreck where medical help was likely to be needed. The weather was terribly cold ang stormy and she was very seasick. But not fir anything would she give in although the lifeboat cruised for three or four hours without finding the wreck This week, too, there was a stirring story of the wives of lifeboat-men at Lowestoft helping to launch and land the boat in high and dangerous seas. It is a tale that never loses by repetition. Yet in fact the records of every lifeboat round the coast could probably show the like. And without underrating such deeds, the very fact of doing something must in a way be a relief. The daunting part of a lifeboatman's wife—and even more of the wives of the hundreds of fishermen now engaged in the terrible business of mine-sweeping—must be the waiting for them to come back.
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