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 the communal kitchen. Governments already have started the fire in the new cookstove in the communal kitchen which England has set up in London and Germany in Berlin, because Ministries of Food have decided food can be more scientifically and efficiently cooked there than in the homes of the working people.

Oh, can there be any one who would still wish to take away the new wage envelope? Think what it's already done for the working-class home! Children with shoes on their feet, you know. Women in England are wearing fur coats. Women in France who once wore sabots are now wearing shoes for which they have paid 40 francs, which is $8 a pair. In every warring country working women are shopping, shopping, shopping, as they never shopped before. O yes, it's thrift and prudence and all that's proper, to put your earnings in war bonds instead. The rainy day, you know, that's ahead. And of course one must, for patriotism's sake, put some of it in war bonds, but not quite all. You see, when there have been almost all rainy days behind and you've always wanted something you couldn't have? Well, Mrs. Black thinks you might as well live in the sunshine and have it, now you can.

That's the way affluence seems to have happened to the working class home all over Europe. Prosperity is fairly gilding over every district in which a munitions plant has arisen. And, oh, well, what if it is gilt? Gilt's good for little cheerless dingy