And what do we mean by socialization?
Is it other than to put the stamp of affectionate, intelligent human interest upon all the operations and the intercourse of the center she directs?
To make a place in which the various members can live freely and draw to themselves those with whom they are sympathetic--a place in which there is spiritual and intellectual room for all to grow and be happy each in his own way?
I doubt if there is any problem in the Woman's Business which requires a higher grade of intelligence, and certainly none that requires broader sympathies, than this of giving to her home that quality of stimulation and joyousness which makes young and old seek it gladly and freely.
To do this requires money, freedom, time, and strength?
No, what I mean does not depend upon these things.

It is the notion that it does that often prevents its growth.

For it is a spirit, an attitude of mind, and not a formula or a piece of machinery.

As far as my observation goes it is quite, if not more likely, to be found in a three-room apartment, where a family is living on fifteen dollars a week, as in an East Central Park mansion! In these little families where love prevails--it usually does exist.

It is the kind of an atmosphere in which a man prefers to smoke his pipe rather than go to the saloon; where the girl brings her young man home rather than walk with him.