Hence, again, the whole question of vocational preparation for girls, as well as for boys, has right-of-way as against any temporary or easily dispensed-with helping in family emergencies which may seriously hamper the future wage-earner.

This is now being seen clearly; and the consequence is that parents do without for themselves both luxuries and often comforts, in order that their children shall have a chance in general education and in vocational training to fit them for later economic success.

This fact, so honorable to parents, often leads away from family unity by increasing a chasm of culture and of condition between parents and children.
This, again, indicates that the modern standardization of child-care and of parental duty has in it elements that demand far more developed character in all the members of a family in order to hold together by affection, justice, and higher compulsions of tenderness those who have by virtue of the self-sacrifice of the older ones lost touch on many of the common fields of effort.
=Farming and the Farmer's Wife.=--There is one great area both of man's work and of woman's work which supremely needs better understanding and more efficient organization in the interest of family life.

That is the basic industry of all civilized life, farming, and woman's service in the farm home.

We now generally place our farm houses far apart from each other, and we have usually but one house on the place and that for the owner and his family.