There were to be no divisions in the household.

The helper was to sit at the table, at the fireside.

(They thought to change the nature of a relation as old as the world by changing its name and form.) It was like the French Revolutionists' attempt to make a patriot by taking away his ruffles and shoe buckles and calling him "citizen"! Of course it failed.

The family meal, the fireside hour, are personal and private institutions in a home.

Much of the success of the family in building up an intimate comradeship depends upon preserving them.
We admit friends to them as a proof of affection, strangers as a proof of our regard.