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22 As the women arc free from nursing and cooking cares, they take various positions in the industries, schools, shops, laundry, etc. Over seventy are thus engaged on regular salaries. These women, coming in at noon and meeting their children from the schools and their husbands from their work, send to the great cuisine and order whatever they want, all hot and perfectly cooked, and at a cost which is but a very slight advance upon the actual cost of the articles, and thus, an excellent dinner is quickly served without the loss of time, or incurring the trouble of making and preparing it. Wines being purchased in great quantities directly from the producers, are furnished cheap and pure to the members of the Social Palace.

Of the internal order of this residence of over a thousand people, one comment alone is sufficient: there has not been one single police case in the Social Palace since its foundation; and as the courts are lighted with gas all night, the opportunity for the operations of burglars is reduced to a minimum.

Education in the schools embraces a wide range of scientific and practical drill. In the lower classes the Froebel exersises constitute an important part. What are Froebel exersises? many readers will ask. This is most easily explained by an imaginary tableau. You enter a large room where you see from eighty to a hundred children seated at an immense long table, a plank on trestles that can be easily put in its place when wanted—small cabinets are brought and placed upon this table, and from numerous drawers are produced miniature boards, blocks, posts, stacks plastic clay and many other objects, and with these the children commence to construct houses, villages, fences, balconies, furniture, stationery, etc. You