Some paid a stipulated board, and thus freed themselves from any obligatory share in either domestic or out-door labor.

Others contributed smaller sums and worked out the balance.

Some gave labor only, as was the case with Mrs.Kirby, then Georgiana Bruce, an English girl of strong character.

She says she agreed to work eight hours a day for her board and instruction in any branches of study which she elected to pursue.

As an illustration of the actual poverty to which the community were soon reduced, and, moreover, of the low money value they set on domestic labor, we give another characteristic passage from her book.