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The Family and it’s Members

CHAPTER XIII
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The need is to transfer city advantages to the country in far greater extent, and to transfer the people who cannot find or make a human chance in the city to the wide spaces and work needs of the country.

Rural life must be urbanized, city life must be relieved of those who hinder the making of a beautiful and noble civic life, not because they are incapable but because there are too many of them who have not yet arrived at full capacity for vocational achievement and cannot do so in the crowd with which they have to contend.
=Domestic Help and Family Life.=--For the relief of family life in the matter of domestic help there must be an intelligent and an earnest attack of educated women upon the problems involved.

The admirable suggestions of Professor Lucy Salmon in her _Democracy in the Household_[16] indicate the chief difficulty in getting and keeping the right sort of domestic worker.

The personal relation is not that of equals but of superior to inferior, and the helper in the home is isolated socially from the group he or she serves.

This is felt peculiarly in cases where but one helper is employed within the household.


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