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whoever you are, whose eye catches the above heading, read this article carefully. It is written especially for you, and for this reason: you are suspicious of community life, combined households, etc. They suggest to you a place where there are duties and sacrifices for principle's sake, the compensation being, among other things, society, which you feel pretty certain, from all you have read and heard, would not benefit you much unless you are one of the shirks. Hence when your male friends tell of combined households you either oppose the idea or assent simply because you do not wish to be considered unprogressive or old-fogyish in your sentiments.

You are right enough generally in your opposition. When your male friends talk of establishing a community say this to them: "Will you organize social life so that women may be emancipated from the cradle, the cook stove and the wash-tub? If I must still be a slave to these, I shall not make any great effort to change." You may say this without any fear of being called unprogressive by any one whose opinion is worth considering; for there never was a housekeeper so devoted that she did not long to get free from cooking, and scrubbing, and washing, as a duty, unless indeed she had grown old in such service, and had become a mere hard-handed, unattractive scrub, with all hope and ambition crushed out of her; and there never was a mother so tender and so devoted that she could not be exhausted in strength and patience by nursing little ones hour after hour, day after day, and month after month. What man can comprehend what it is to steam over the