They call for the highest understanding, responsiveness, and activity.

No futile devices will meet them.

"My daughter is not coming home to be idle," I heard a fine-intentioned woman say recently.

"I insist that she take all the care of her room, save the weekly cleaning, and that she keep the living-room tidy." But what an occupation for a young woman with a college degree, who for four years has led a busy, well-organized life in which each task was directed toward some definite purpose! What a commentary on the mother's understanding of "economic independence," a matter of which she talks eloquently at her club! All that it proved was that the woman had never realized the girl's case, had never given consecutive, serious thought to its handling.
How little chance there will probably be for this same girl to do at home any serious work in case she develops a talent for it.

The home of the prosperous, energetic American woman is pervaded by a spirit of eager and generally happy excitement.