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Rh wash-tub and the cooking-stove all day, and then when almost sinking for want of rest, to have a baby tugging at the breast all night. Why the half of what thousands and thousands of women endure has never been written or spoken, and can only be fully understood by women themselves!

Mr. Godin, the founder of the Social Palace of Guise, in France, seems to have had a marvelous insight into the wants of the people when he organized the social life in that magnificent home which his humanity led him to build for his workmen and their families. He reasons in his book, thus:

To know what the poor should have, we have only to see what those who have riches invariably supply for themselves; for mankind is one in all essential needs.

The rich build themselves palaces with spacious grounds and gardens to delight their leisure hours.

Very well; the poor should have their palaces with spacious grounds and gardens to delight their leisure hours.

The rich have separate rooms for sleeping, for dining, for cooking, for washing, etc.

Very well; the poor must have all these.

The rich do not drag out the lives of their women with the never ceasing nursing of children. They have nurseries and nurses whose special function is to see that the children are well cared for and happy.

Very well; the poor must have their nursery where the needs of children can be better supplied than in the family rooms.

The rich have fine schools for their children where the best teachers are engaged and every means taken to secure them a good education.