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43 to the fitting-room and have the linen, corresponding to her size, shaped to her figure at once. The dress-makers and seamstresses who have been hitherto employed by the co-operative housekeepers should be consulted, and if possible taken into the service and membership of the association, so they may not lose, but rather gain, by the new order of things. As there will be rich women and old-established housekeepers in town who will not, and farmers' wives in the country who cannot, give up their private kitchens and laundries, but who would probably take great interest in a co-operative clothing-house, the constitution might provide for admission to partial membership, thus allowing each housekeeper to choose what branch of co-operation is to herself most convenient.

Of course the four directresses stand first, charged with the functions specially allotted to them by Article XXI. of the constitution. The post of the directresses and vice-directresses should be on the first floor, that they may receive business calls and answer business letters in the counting-room, and also keep a general eye upon the salesroom. The other officers of this floor will be a book-keeper and a cashier for the counting-room, buyers and sales-women for the salesroom, a costume-artist for the consulting-room, and a dress-maker for the fitting-room. All of these, excepting the latter, should be chosen from among the co-operating housekeepers themselves, or from their widowed and unmarried relatives and friends; for remember, it was as a means of enabling "ladies" in a perfectly unobjectionable way to carry on the retail trade, that co-operative house-keeping was at first proposed.

The post of the two assistant directresses should be on the second floor. One of them will superintend the dress-making and the other the plain-sewing department. In the former, I suppose, there would be two dress-cutters,—one for women and one for young girls and children; and, in the latter,