This is the only sure foundation for socially helpful sex-relationship and for that democratization of the family without which social progress is now impossible.

The social education of women in general demands, also, the cultivation of domestic tastes and of some measure of household technic, not as a concession to the past, but as a safeguard of the future, in such fashion that the call to personal service of the family life may recall familiar and pleasant educational activities.

These educational activities should precede those which tend directly toward vocational preparation for self-support.

This point, too, is vital.

The age when almost all little girls like to do things which concern the family comfort is from the eighth to the fourteenth year, a period too young for proper vocational drill.